Colleen Birchett, Ph.D.’s Profile
Pedagogy of Teaching Writing, African American Studies, Womanist, Liberationist and Postcolonial Theology.
Dr. Birchett teaches English 1121, 1101 and Introduction to Literature, 2000. She has been teaching at City Tech since the Fall of 2011. She has a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation title is “Using Television to Cultivate Cognitive Skills involved in Descriptive Writing”. Her M.Div. Thesis title is “Hagar in the Hip Hop Wilderness”. Among her publications is a study guide to Michelle Alexander’s classic, “The New Jim Crow,” and “Africans Who Shaped Our Faith, a study of Africans in the Bible”, co-authored with Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.. She has served as a columnist for “Trumpet Magazine”, and as served as the editor and writer of curriculum materials for young adults and teenagers.
My Courses
English 1101 First Year Writing Fall, 2020
English 1101 is the first of a two required First Year Writing Courses.
English 2001 Introduction to Literature: Fiction
Short Stories from the African, Asian, European and Latin American Diasporas
ENG 1121 Writing and Social Justice Fall 2018
English 1121 develops skill in using both primary and secondary sources for research purposes, and for literary criticism. It engages writing and critical thinking processes of brainstorming, organizing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing essays. Students gain experience incorporating research from outside sources into expository, argumentative and literary critical essays.
“In the News”: Researching and Writing about Current Events
My Projects
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City Tech’s Source for Academic Affairs Information
First-Year Writing Professional Development
This project is for faculty participating in professional development for the First-Year Writing program at City Tech.
A site for the First Year Writing OER
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