In my recent 6-year stint at MSU's English Dept. I taught novels of varied lengths. Six books in an Edith Wharton/Sinclair Lewis seminar; 8-10 in various mystery classes: Michigan, International, Genre survey; ditto in Jewish-American Lit. Students kept up for the most part, so I was lucky.
But over time--since I taught at MSU for a previous seven-year period, I found more students less and less willing to read anything "long" and adminitsrators in the dept. caving and assigning 4-6 books tops.
In my recent 6-year stint at MSU's English Dept. I taught novels of varied lengths. Six books in an Edith Wharton/Sinclair Lewis seminar; 8-10 in various mystery classes: Michigan, International, Genre survey; ditto in Jewish-American Lit. Students kept up for the most part, so I was lucky.
Sounds good. Glad they kept up
But over time--since I taught at MSU for a previous seven-year period, I found more students less and less willing to read anything "long" and adminitsrators in the dept. caving and assigning 4-6 books tops.