Courses

 

Bachelor of Arts, English - Awarded May 2000

 

Fall 1994 - Mountain View Community College (Dual Credit - South Grand Prairie HS)

ENGL 104 Composition & Rhetoric

MATH 151 Calculus

 

Spring 1995 - Mountain View Community College (Dual Credit - South Grand Prairie HS)

ENGL 203 Introduction to Literature

 

Fall 1995 - Texas A&M University

LING 209 Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 227 American Literature Colonial to American Renaissance

HIST 105 (HNR) History of the U.S.

POLS 206 American National Government

 

Spring 1996 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 231 Survey of English Literature I

HIST 106 History of the U.S.

PHIL 240 Introduction to Logic - Prof. Menzel

POLS 207 State & Local Government

 

Fall 1996 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 232 Survey of English Literature II

HIST 213 History of England - Prof. R.J.Q. Adams

JOUR 102 American Mass Media

SCOM 325 Persuasion

 

Spring 1997 - Texas A&M University

HIST 214 History of England

JOUR 214 Photojournalism I - Prof. Howard Eilers

KINE 199 Fitness & Conditioning

LING 310 History of the English Language

RDNG 460 Language and Reading

 

Fall 1997 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 222 World Literature

ENGL 375 19th Century American Novel

KINE 199 Beginning Venture Dynamics - Prof. Tamra Franks

SPAN 101 Beginning Spanish I

THAR 101 Introduction to Theatre

 

Fall 1998 - Texas A&M University

ARTS 149 Art History Survey I

EDTC 345 Microcomputer Awareness for Educators

ENGL 481 Senior Seminar: Nature in Literature - Prof. Chuck Taylor

KINE 199 Beginning Venture Dynamics - Prof. Tamra Franks

SCOM 203 Public Speaking

 

Spring 1999 - Blinn College

SPAN 102 Beginning Spanish II

 

Spring 1999 - Texas A&M University

PSYC 107 Introduction to Psychology

• Exploding the dream

RDNG 465 Reading in Middle/Secondary Grades

 

Fall 1999 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 339 African-American Literature - Prof. Finnie Coleman

ENGL 461 Advanced Syntax and Rhetoric - Prof. Joanna Gibson

KINE 199 Beginning Venture Dynamics - Prof. Tamra Franks [Teaching Assistant]

KINE 199 Beginning Venture Dynamics - Prof. Tamra Franks [Teaching Assistant]

METR 201 Atmospheric Science

METR 202 Atmospheric Science Lab

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

 

Spring 2000 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 412 Studies in Shakespeare - Prof. Paul Parrish

ENGL 481 Sr. Seminar: Afro American Novel - Prof. Finnie Coleman

ENGL 485 Directed Studies - Prof. Finnie Coleman

SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish IIZOOL 107 Zoology

 

 

Master of Arts, English - Awarded December 2004

 

Fall 2000 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 638 Seminar 19th Century British Literature - Prof. Clint Machann

This seminar focused on the three of the most significant long poems of the Victorian Era: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book, and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. In addition to reading and discussing these long poems, students read additional poems from each author and prepared oral presentations on critical response for class discussion. My paper for the course examined Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s abolitionist tendencies.

 

ENGL 645 Women and Literature - Prof. Kimberly Brown

This seminar examined the intersections of race, sexual orientation, and class through narrative and film. Students encountered perspectives of women of African, white, Indian and Asian descent in the Caribbean in order to complicate monolithic representations of race as it is understood in the U.S. and connect the Caribbean literary tradition to its various antecedents. Texts included Mary Prince Mary Seacole, Sab, Allfrey The Orchid House, Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea, Hodge Crick-Crak Monkey, Nichols I is a Long Memoried Woman, Marshall The Chosen Place, the Timeless People, Cliff Abeng, Shinebourne The Last English Plantation, Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies, Danticat Breath, Eyes, Memory and Palcy’s film, Sugar Cane Alley. My paper for the course drew parallels between Caribbean and U.S. literary tropes and explained how aspects of African-American literary tradition have been adapted to Caribbean themes.

 

Spring 2001 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 603 Bibliographic & Literary Research - Prof. Maura Ives

This course provided in-depth coverage of literary research methods and tools, including use and transcription of archive material. My major project was a survey of the state of scholarship on the works of Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay and a proposal for a hypertext critical edition of his poetry.

 

ENGL 685 Directed Studies - Prof. Finnie Coleman

This course was linked with participation in ENGL 396 – Introduction to Hip Hop Culture. I read selected critical texts and participated in class discussions. My written production in this course consisted of several short papers, including one that began to develop an original theory of cultural perspective, and one article on race and authenticity in Hip Hop culture.

 

ENGL 689 Special Topics: Postcolonial Film/Literature - Profs. Siraj Ahmed & Bob Shandley

This course explored concepts and components in film and Marxist theory that are adapted through postcolonial sensibilities as vehicles to establish independent identity. Readings included Fanon, Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Ngũgĩ’s Grain of Wheat, and Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah. Films included Mambety’s Hyenas and Touki-Bouki, Mehta’s Fire, and The Battle of Algiers. Each of these texts highlights the aftereffects of colonial violence on postcolonial existence, often using tropes of western production and education to foreground the problem. My paper in this course examined Euzhan Palcy’s Sugar Cane Alley as “third cinema.”

 

Fall 2002 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 622 Introduction to Creative Writing - Prof. Robert Campbell

In this seminar, students read and discussed selected short fiction and discussed the merits of varying styles and literary devices. Students were expected to contribute to the course by producing three pieces of short fiction and providing critical feedback for the production of their classmates. My fiction in this course explored social conventions of race, class, belief and community by introducing unexpected elements and twists of character. One piece of fiction I developed in this course, “How to Grow Dreadlocks,” won second place for graduate fiction in the 2002 Gordone Awards.

 

EPSY 602 Educational Psychology - Prof. Robert Hall

This course dealt with current models of learning, memory, problem solving, and the development of skill and expertise. The impact of motivation and environment on performance were issues that were stressed.

 

EPSY 646 Issues in Child & Adolescent Development - Prof. Joyce Juntune

This course covered various theories of developmental psychology, issues, and research strategies relevant to education. Identifying age and developmentally appropriate practice was emphasized.

 

Spring 2003 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 672 Literary Milieux - Prof. Dennis Berthold

This course was divided roughly into two parts. The first was devoted to the short fiction of Hawthorne and Poe specifically, as well as contemplation of short story genre, its commercial success and popularity, and how different techniques utilize the form. The second half of the course focused on Melville’s novels: Typee, Moby Dick, and The Confidence-Man. Through these we traced the development of Melville’s craft as well as the influence of commercial factors on his artistic product. Spanning both halves of the course, we discussed the synergistic relationship between the creation of an American canon and the development of a national identity. My papers in this course explored each of these texts as experiments in writing that reshape the reality being described.

 

ENGL 679 American Ethnic Literature - Prof. Charles Rowell

This seminar examined the development, use, and transformation of voice in African American poetry from the beginnings to the present. A few examples of poets covered in the course of study are Phillis Wheatley, George Moses Horton, Frances Harper, Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa. Students’ development of our own voice was encouraged through regular journal writing and original poetry composition. The development and assertion of a critical perspective was emphasized in class discussion of assigned poetry readings and student presentations. My journal entries, poetry, and papers in this course explored race as structure on and against which conflicting concepts of race are constructed.

 

EPSY 623 Social and Emotional Development of Gifted/Talented - Prof. Joyce Juntune

This course gave an overview of the history and theoretical background for understanding the social and emotional development of gifted/talented students.  Understanding the special needs and potential problems for under and mis-served gifted students was emphasized. Students were given the opportunity to learn and practice effective techniques such as discussion groups and bibliotherapy to help gifted students understand their giftedness.

 

Fall 2003 - Texas A&M University

ENGL 607 Seminar in Medieval Literature - Prof. Jennifer Goodman

This seminar focuses on the fourteenth and fifteenth-century “Querelle des dames” and the sources and developments of protofeminism and anti-feminism in this literary debate on the role and nature of women, especially as these themes are explored in the extraordinary female characters of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory’s Morte D'arthur. My first report covered Jerome’s contribution to the “Querelle des dames.” I was interested in developing a comparison of Eastern and Western Christian perspectives of the role of women in salvation and how those are expressed in the texts. My final paper compared the roles of Anna Comnena and Christine de Pizan as noblewomen defending feminine power in writing.

 

EPSY 619 Nature & Needs of Gifted & Talented - Prof. Joyce Juntune

 

 

Doctor of Philosophy, Educational Psychology - Awarded August, 2013

 

Fall 2004 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 435 Educational Statistics - Prof. Cindy Dutschke

EPSY 645 Creative Genius - Prof. Bill Nash

 

Spring 2005 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 622 Measurement & Evaluation in Education - Prof. Bill Nash

EPSY 640 Experimental Design in Education I

 

Fall 2005 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 634 Creative Thinking

 

Spring 2006 - Texas A&M University

ARCH 685 Directed Studies - Prof. Rodney Hill

EDAD 690 Theory of EDAD Research - Statistics II

EPSY 431 Personal Creativity of the Gifted - Prof. Joyce Juntune

 

Fall 2006 - Texas A&M University

EHRD 690 Theory of EHRD Research - Research Design

EPSY 685 Directed Studies

EPSY 691 Research

 

Spring 2007 - Texas A&M University

EDAD 690 Theory of EDAD Research - Naturalistic Inquiry - Prof. Jean Madsen

EPSY 683 Field Practicum - Prof. Joyce Juntune

EPSY 691

 

Fall 2007 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691

 

Spring 2008 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 648 Intelligence & Creativity

EPSY 691 Research

 

 

Fall 2008 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691 Research

GEOS 689 Special Topics: International Polar Year - Prof. Chuck Kennicutt

 

 

Spring 2009 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691 Research

 

 

Fall 2009 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691 Research

 

 

Spring 2010 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691 Research

 

 

Fall 2010 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691 Research

 

 

Spring 2012 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691 Research

 

 

Fall 2012 - Texas A&M University

EPSY 691 Research