Contact Information

Office Hours

• Monday: 9-10:30 am
• Tuesday: 9-10:00 am
• Wednesday: 9-10:30 am
• Thursday: 9-10:00 am
• Friday: by appointment

Education

• Phd Philosophy/Comparative LIterature, UC-Davis, 2000
• MA, Spanish, French literature; Basque Studies, minor, UNR, 1984
• BA, English PBK, UC-Berkeley, 1978

Recommended Reading

• I and Thou, Martin Buber
• The Wisdom of Uncertainty, Allan Watts
• The Collected Works of, Shakespeare
• Emerson's Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrige
• Remembering Heraclitus, Richard Geldard
• Faust, Goethe
• Don Quijote, Cervantes
• Les Essais, Montaigne
• William Blake, George Herbert, Rumi, Mallarme, Emily Dickinson, Garcia Lorca, St. John of the Cross, Yeats, Rumi, Basho, Keats, Tagore, ee cummings, WH Auden, Walt Whitman

Classes

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FREN 111

Title: First Year French I Catalog Description: Development of language skills through practice in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and structural analysis. Language practice required. [H*] My Comments: Beginning French FREN 111-112 follow the same syllabus, format, and online program (vhlcentral.com "Promenades"

PHIL 102

Title: Critical Thinking and Reasoning Catalog Description: Covers nonsymbolic introduction to logical thinking in everyday life, law, politics, science, advertising; common fallacies; and the uses of language, including techniques of persuasion. [H*] My Comments: Intensive live/IAV interactive class. "Must be present to win"

SPAN 211

Title: Second Year Spanish I Catalog Description: Considers structural review, conversation and writing, and readings in modern literature. [H*] My Comments: Intermediate Spanish SPAN 211-212 follows the same syllabus, format and online program (vhlcentral.com "Vistas")

SPAN 305

Title: Spanish Composition Catalog Description: The advanced student of Spanish will be exposed to a free-writing approach in the composition of essays in Spanish. Auxiliary activities will include vocabulary development and grammatical refinement as well as a grounding in and further review of Spanish grammar and the use of idiomatic speech. [H]

SPAN 400

Title: Practicum in Spanish in the Community Catalog Description: Supervised experience as an interpreter or translator using Spanish for local agencies or schools.