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Syllabi and Teaching Projects

Are you curious about how other teachers are using women's writing in their classes? Looking for new teaching ideas? To encourage innovative teaching with women's writing, and to foster the exchange of ideas, the Women Writers Project will soon be launching a syllabus exchange page.

If you have a syllabus you'd like to share, please send it to us (in HTML if possible, otherwise plain text or a printed copy), along with a brief description of the design and aims of the course, and if you like comments on what worked and what didn't, how your students responded.

These syllabi and projects have been chosen for their effective and innovative use of women's writing, and particularly of texts from the Women Writers Project collection. They have been generously contributed by their creators and are presented here for the benefit of other readers. The strategies and opinions expressed in these materials are those of their creators, not of the Women Writers Project.

Materials and Methods for the Study of Pre-18th Century Women Writers
Jennifer Summit, Stanford University

A Graduate Seminar on The Age of Elizabeth
Elizabeth H. Hageman, University of New Hampshire

Writing Renaissance Women
Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College

Women Writers in the English Renaissance
Margaret Thickstun, Hamilton College

Renaissance Literature: The Matter of Words and Images
Kirilka Stavreva, Saint Ambrose College

The Book of the Tenth Muse
Stephanie Merrim, Brown University