Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

Threshold concepts, Discourse-centered education

Abstract

At the 2013 TLA retreat, the main task I set for myself was building a new course around the film and television of the Pacific Northwest. The main challenge of this course was how to create a syllabus centered on the media of a ‘region’ rather than a particular concept or genre. The guiding question for developing this course was what aspects of the Pacific Northwest films and television were able to contribute to. Since our retreat was focused on 'threshold concepts,' and this course was primarily focused on content rather than skills (studying media of the region as opposed to creating media, although like most English courses this was a writing skills-based class), I used Paul Feyerabend's Against Method as a conceptual skill-set through which to approach the material. The intended goal was to use Feyerabend as a methodology, and to treat this methodology as the threshold concept.

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Motion picture film--Washington (State)--Northwest, Pacific; Motion picture film--Study and teaching; Science--Philosophy; Methodology

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

Feyerabend, Paul, 1924-1994

Geographic Coverage

Northwest, Pacific

Genre/Form

reports

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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