Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Seminars Offered Between 1978-1984
1978
"Language and Writing"
Led by James A. Winn, Associate Professor of English
"20th Century Afro-American Culture"
Led by Charles T. Davis, Professor of Afro-American Studies and English
"20th Century American History and Literature"
Led by Henry A. Turner, Professor of History and Master of Davenport College; Richard
W. Fox, Assistant Professor of History; and Cynthia E.
Russett, Lecturer of History
"Colonial American History and Material Culture"
Led by Marni Sandweiss, Teaching Assistant in History
1979
"The Stranger and Modern Fiction: A Portrait in Black and White"
Led by Michael G. Cooke, Professor of English
"Themes in Twentieth Century American Culture"
Led by Jean-Christophe Agnew, Assistant Professor of American Studies and
History
"Remarkable City: Industrial New Haven and the Nation, 1800-1900"
Led by Howard R. Lamar, Dean of Yale College and William Robertson Coe
Professor of American History
"Language and Writing"
Led by Thomas R. Whitaker, Professor and Chairman of English
"Strategies for Teaching Literature"
Led by James A. Winn, Associate Professor of English
"Natural History and Biology"
Led by Alvin Novick, Associate Professor of Biology
1980
"Adolescence and Narrative: Strategies for Teaching Fiction"
Led by Ross C. Murfin, Assistant Professor of English
"Art, Artifacts, and Material Culture"
Led by Jules D. Prown, Professor of History of Art
"Drama"
Led by Thomas R. Whitaker, Professor and Chairman of English
"Language and Writing"
Led by James A. Winn, Associate Professor of English
"Man and the Environment"
Led by Richard S. Miller, Oastler Professor of Wildlife Ecology of the
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology
"The Present as History"
Led by Jean-Christophe Agnew, Assistant Professor of History
"Problem Solving"
Led by Robert F. Szczarba, Professor and Chairman of Mathematics
1981
"The `City' in American Literature and Culture"
Led by Alan Trachtenberg, Professor and Chairman of American Studies and
Professor of English
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to British Studies"
Led by Robin W. Winks, Master of Berkeley College and Professor of
History
"Human Sexuality and Human Society"
Led by Helen Block Lewis, Professor (Adjunct) of Psychology and Thomas
E. Brown, Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion
"Writing Across the Curriculum"
Led by Joseph W. Gordon, Assistant Professor of English
"The Human Environment: Energy"
Led by Richard S. Miller, Oastler Professor of Wildlife Ecology of the
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology
"Computing"
Led by William R. Bennett, Jr., Master of Silliman College, C. Baldwin
Sawyer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, and Professor of
Physics
1982
"Autobiography"
Led by Richard H. Brodhead, Associate Professor of English
"The Constitution in American History and American Life"
Led by Robert M. Cover, Professor of Law
"Human Fetal Development"
Led by Maurice J. Mahoney, M.D., Professor of Human Genetics,
Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Society and the Detective Novel"
Led by Robin W. Winks, Master of Berkeley College and Professor of
History
"The Changing American Family: Historical and Comparative
Perspectives"
Led by Harold W. Scheffler, Professor of Anthropology
"Society and Literature in Latin America"
Led by Nicol‡s Shumway, Assistant Professor of Spanish
"An Unstable World: The West in Decline?"
Led by Robin W. Winks, Master of Berkeley College and Professor of
History
1983
"Medical Imaging"
Led by Dr. Ronald C. Ablow, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Pediatrics
"Elements of Architecture"
Led by Kent C. Bloomer, Professor of Architectural Design
"Cross-Cultural Variation in Children and Families"
Led by William Kessen Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Professor of
Pediatrics
"Reading the Twentieth Century Short Story"
Led by James A. Snead, Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature
"Greek and Roman Mythology"
Led by William G. Thalmann, Associate Professor of Classics, Director of
Undergraduate Studies for Directed Studies, Special Programs in
Humanities
"America in the Sixties:Culture and Counter-Culture"
Led by Robert Westbrook, Assistant Professor of American Studies and
History
"Drama"
Led by Thomas R. Whitaker, Professor and Chairman of English
1984
"Greek Civilization"
Led by Victor Bers, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
in Classics
"Elements of Architecture, Part II"
Led by Kent C. Bloomer, Professor of Architectural Design
"The Oral Tradition"
Led by Michael G. Cooke, Professor of English
"Geology and the Industrial History of Connecticut"
Led by Robert B. Gordon, Professor of Geophysics and Applied
Mechanics
"American Adolescents in the Public Eye"
Led by William Kessen, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Professor
of Pediatrics
"Hispanic Minorities in the United States"
Led by Nicolás Shumway, Assistant Professor of Spanish