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Past
Courses:
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Spring 1999:
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Eng 800, 165
& 110
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Spring 2003:
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English 100 Puente, 110, Engl/Read 846.
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Summer 1999:
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English 800
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Fall 2003:
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English
846
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Fall 1999:
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English 100
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Spring 2004:
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English
165
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Spring 2000:
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Eng 800, 165
& 110
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Fall 2004:
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Engl 165
Honors, Read 836
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Summer 2000:
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English 800
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Spring 2005:
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Engl
100 ASTEP, Engl 165
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Fall 2000:
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English 801
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Fall 2005:
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Engl
846 ASTEP, Engl 165 Honors
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Spring 2001:
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English 800
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Spring 2006:
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Engl
836, Engl 100 ASTEP
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Summer 2001:
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Reading
801
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Fall 2006:
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Engl
100 online, Engl 110
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Fall 2001:
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Engl 800
Puente, 100, Read 801
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Spring 2007:
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Engl
100 online, Engl 165
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Spring 2002:
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Engl 100
Puente, 100 Honors, Read 801
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Fall 2007:
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Engl
100, Eng 100 online
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Fall 2002:
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English 836
Puente, 100, Engl/Read 846
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Research
and Citation
Education
B.A. English Literature, University
of California at Santa Barbara, 1992
M.A. English Literature, San
Diego State University,
1995
E.S.L. Teaching Certificate, San
Diego State University,
1995
Reading Certificate, San
Francisco State University,
2001
Biography
At San
Diego State University,
I focused my studies in ethnic American literature and wrote a graduate
thesis titled “Search for Place and Authentic Locations of Identity” based
on the works on the African-American writer, Gloria Naylor. I also studied the teaching of English as a
Second Language and received an ESL certificate from SDSU in addition to my
Masters in English Literature. I also completed a Reading Certificate
during Spring 2001 at San
Francisco State University.
I have taught and continue to teach a
range of writing classes from developmental writing and reading,
college-level composition, advanced writing courses in critical thinking, and
introduction to literature. Before becoming a full time instructor at Skyline
College, I taught part-time at
several community colleges in and around the Bay Area as well as at San
Diego State University.
I have also taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Madrid,
Spain at the
university level. Currently in my writing classes at Skyline, I tend to
design lessons around issues relating to race, class, and gender.
In addition to teaching, I also
coordinate The Writing and
Reading Lab and the Basic
Skills Lab in The Learning
Center. And I also
coordinate the Basic Skills
Initiative.
Outside of school my main
interests are reading, running, and traveling. Having grown up in Southern
California, I’ve been attempting to branch out and see a bit
more of the world. During the summer of 1995, I went to England
and Scotland.
Afterwards, I moved to Madrid, Spain,
lived there for one year, and then moved to San
Francisco. The following summer of 1997, I traveled
to Brazil.
In the summer of 1998, I spent six weeks traveling through southern Europe
and visited Greece, Italy,
revisited old friends in Spain,
and also I went to Portugal.
In January of 1999 I went to Thailand;
in June of 1999, I went to Oaxaca, Mexico;
and in June 2000, I went to Indonesia,
Singapore, and Malaysia.
I went to Australia
during the winter of 2000 (it was summer there). During winter break
2002-03, I went to Guatemala,
Belize and Honduras;
during the summer of 2003, I went to Puerta
Vallarta, Mexico;
and in June 2004, I went to Japan
for a month. During July 2005,
I went to Costa Rica and Honduras and in January 2006, I went to
Australia. For June 2006, I
traveled around Europe to Scotland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, and
England. And in the summer of
July 2007, I traveled across the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, and in Nov
2008, I went to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. In March 2008, I'll be going to the Dominican Republic over
spring break.
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