Graduate Faculty Application
Fall 2023
Assistant Professor of English Sidney Blaylock
Sidney Blaylock
College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
SACSCOC Credentials Guidelines:
1. Faculty teaching undergraduate general education and/or baccalaureate courses: Doctorate or Master’s degree in the teaching discipline or Master’s degree with a concentration in the discipline (a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline).
2. Faculty teaching graduate and post-baccalaureate course work: Earned Doctorate/ terminal degree in the teaching discipline or a related discipline (a minimum of 18 hours above the Master’s degree in the teaching discipline).
EN 595W, Selected Topics in Writing: Speculative Fiction & Afrofuturism: Concentrated study in specific areas of written composition; EN 609W, Rhetorical Theory and Culture: The tradition of rhetoric in Western culture extends almost 3000 years through history and impacts nearly every facet of human communication. From Aristotle to the war on terrorism, this course covers a broad spectrum of definitions about rhetoric and the uses of rhetoric in business and creative endeavors in a global society.
ENGL 7420, Studies in American Literature: 1860 to 1910 (3); ENGL 7350, History of Criticism (3); ENGL 7505, History of Rhetoric Ancient (3); ENGL 7530, Studies in Composition/Rhetoric (3); ENGL 7535, Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: Digital Rhetoric and Writing (3); ENGL 7565, Special Topics in Film Studies: British New Wave Films
Qualifications:
Does this faculty member hold a terminal degree in this discipline or a related field?
Yes
Doctor of Philosophy in English
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