LTC Lunch: The Pedagogy of Reading (May 19)

What habits of reading do our students have when they begin their Carleton careers, and how do we affect those habits over their time here? There is a range of reading habits, from the casual to the specific, from distracted to engaged. We should not assume that even students attending selective schools start their careers with well-established skills in close and careful reading. Fred Hagstrom will begin the session with an overview of issues that are cropping up in terms of reading skills, followed by faculty presenters who have found ways to help students to read in greater depth and comprehension. Scott Carpenter, professor of French, director of crosscultural; studies; Fred Hagstrom, director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Art; Pierre Hecker, associate professor of English; Bill Titus, professor of physics