Ewa Barnes’s Profile

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Ewa Barnes
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About Me
I started my education at Norwalk Community College, then transfered to SUNY Purchase. I also hold an MA in Literature and a MS in Education, both from CCNY, the City College of New York. I have been teaching for nearly 20 years: ESL to international students in private language schools in NYC, in public high schools in NYC, in CCNY, and, my most beloved one, teaching at BMCC. Here, I teach Critical Thinking 100, as well as Literacy courses, such as Literacy 150/ Literacy in American Society. In my free time, I love to read, write, and explore the world through the eyes of my two spirited children.
Department
Academic Literacy and Linguistics
Academic Program
Linguistics and Literacy, A.A.

Courses

Critical Thinking/ CRT 100-053W/ Spring23/ Prof. Barnes-Asynchronous

Critical Thinking/ CRT 100-053W/ Spring23/ Prof. Barnes-Asynchronous

Critical Thinking (Same as CRT 100) is designed to develop the mind and help students learn to think clearly and effectively. Through substantive readings, structured writing assignments and ongoing discussions, students will examine concrete examples from their own experience and readings and contemporary issues in the media to learn how to analyze issues, solve problems, and make informed decisions in their academic, professional, and personal lives.

ESL 96-1803 Intensive Reading and Writing/ Spring 2023 with Prof. Barnes

ESL 96-1803 Intensive Reading and Writing/ Spring 2023 with Prof. Barnes

ESL 96 is an intensive integrated skills course that emphasizes academic writing and critical reading for ESL students. It focuses on basic components of effective writing and reading, including essay organization, paragraph development, sentence structure, word choice, and content. Students demonstrate comprehension of texts of varying lengths and genres by reading and responding to a variety of texts and using argumentation, narrative, and description as modes of developing ideas in writing. Students demonstrate critical reading skills related to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This course is designed to help students master and apply a full range of college-level reading and writing skills in English.

English Composition ENG 101-1022 Spring 2023 with Prof. Barnes

English Composition ENG 101-1022 Spring 2023 with Prof. Barnes

English Composition is the standard freshman writing course. The course introduces students to academic writing. By its conclusion, students will be ready for English 201 and for the writing they will be asked to do in advanced courses across the curriculum. Students completing ENG 101 will have mastered the fundamentals of college-level reading and writing, including developing a thesis-driven response to the writing of others and following the basic conventions of citation and documentation. They will have practiced what Mike Rose calls the “habits of mind” necessary for success in college and in the larger world: summarizing, classifying, comparing, contrasting, and analyzing. Students will be introduced to basic research methods and MLA documentation and complete a research project. Students are required to take a departmental final exam that requires the composition of a 500 word, thesis-driven essay in conversation with two designated texts.

Critical Thinking CRT 100-054W/ Spring 2023/ Prof. Barnes/ Asynchronous

Critical Thinking CRT 100-054W/ Spring 2023/ Prof. Barnes/ Asynchronous

Critical Thinking (Same as CRT 100) is designed to develop the mind and help students learn to think clearly and effectively. Through substantive readings, structured writing assignments and ongoing discussions, students will examine concrete examples from their own experience and readings and contemporary issues in the media to learn how to analyze issues, solve problems, and make informed decisions in their academic, professional, and personal lives.

ACL 200 | Literacy Practices: Birth through Adolescence | Course Hub

ACL 200 | Literacy Practices: Birth through Adolescence | Course Hub

Coming soon! Prior to 2023, this course was designated as ACL 200.

Communities

Open Education Seminars | Winter 2023

Open Education Seminars | Winter 2023

A virtual learning community for faculty who are participating in January 2023 OER/ZTC Course Redesign or Open Pedagogy Assignments. (image credit: “Open Sign” by AlanDavidRobb is free to use under Pixabay license)

Academic Literacy and Linguistics Faculty Community

Academic Literacy and Linguistics Faculty Community

Academic Literacy and Linguistics Faculty Community. Teaching materials and resources will soon be available here.

Teaching on the OpenLab

Teaching on the OpenLab

A place for BMCC faculty who are teaching (or considering teaching) on the OpenLab to connect and share ideas. Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay

Teaching on the OpenLab | Summer 2022

Teaching on the OpenLab | Summer 2022

A virtual learning community for faculty who applied and were accepted to participate in the June 2022 Teaching on the OpenLab. (image credit: “OPEN” by Tom Magliery is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

BMCC Open Knowledge Commons

BMCC Open Knowledge Commons

Coming soon . . .

Projects

Teach On!

Teach On!

A space for faculty to share ideas about how to support student learning during the transition to distance learning for the remainder of Spring 2020. Please request to join if you are faculty at BMCC. Click on “Visit Project Site” in the upper right to access BMCC’s Course Continuity Resources website.