Professor Scott Lucas delivered two academic papers during the spring semester of 2006: “'Let None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake: A Mirror for Magistrates, the English Magistracy, and the Limits of Political Obedience, at the New College of Florida Medieval/Renaissance Conference, and “From Politics to Poetics: Thomas Sackville’s A Mirror for Magistrates” at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, March 23-25, 2006.
Dr. Lucas also completed an article titled “Let None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake”: A Mirror for Magistrates, Resistance Theory, and the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic, to be published in 2007 in the essay collection The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England: Responses to Patrick Collinson, and a book manuscript titled "A Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of the English Reformation."
This summer the English Department launched its annual Summer in London Program. Cadets spent six weeks in London, England taking a British literature survey course with Dr. Sean Heuston, Professor of English. Cadets also took one of two elective courses taught by British university faculty: Islam and the West or The Economic Integration of the European Union. Highlights of the program included trips to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (for a performance of Shakespeare's Coriolanus and a special class session led by Globe Theatre actors; the Keats House; Stonehenge; the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; the Islamic Centre of England; the Lake District; numerous London museums and tourist attractions; and Dublin, Ireland where Dr. Heuston led a weekend literary/historical tour.
Writing Project Secures Study Group Grant
The Lowcountry Writing Project (LWP), directed by Dr. Tom Thompson (Associate Professor of English), has been awarded a $4,000 grant to start study groups for area school teachers in the 2006-2007 academic year. The LWP provides professional development for K-12 teachers in all disciplines, with the goal of improving student learning by improving the ways teachers use writing as a learning tool.
This grant, awarded by the National Writing Project, will allow up to 40 Lowcountry teachers to engage in professional discussions with peers on a monthly basis. Each group will select a book on a topic relevant to the needs and interests of the participating teachers. The LWP will provide the books and the group facilitators. At the end of the year, each group will provide a “report” of some type—an inservice program or perhaps a panel discussion—for other faculty members at the participating schools. The facilitators will also present the results of their work at the 2007 National Writing Project conference in New York.
In addition to improving student learning, the LWP also develops teacher leaders—a goal congruent with the mission statement for the College of Graduate and Professional Studies. The group facilitators, all of whom completed a Summer Institute sponsored by the LWP, will gain visibility in their respective schools as they facilitate year-round professional discussions, and they will participate in, and contribute to, the larger professional community as they become conference presenters at the New York conference and at other conferences.
