Language Improvement 340-AS1-1MODA1

This 20 hour course will focus on developing English language skills and cultural awareness through a wide spectrum of interactive activities which will include text analysis, vocabulary development, as well as speaking and writing activities. The input will be provided by a selection of podcasts by Garrison Keillor

A Prairie Home Companion: News from Lake Wobegon available on Podbean. The final credit will be based on attendance, active participation and a Project Work prepared by students.

F. Boyd, D.Quinn, Stories from Lake Wobegon. Advanced Listening and Conversation Skills, Longman, 1990.

I. Brodie, A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy, University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

R. Stebbins, The Laugh-Makers: Stand-Up Comedy as Art, Business, and Life-Style, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990.

R. Zoglin, Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America, Bloomsbury USA, 2008.