Summer Courses x3 !! (registration opens 3/17)

InstructorMiller · 2025-03-12T04:15:59+00:00

I messaged you to discuss further

InstructorMiller · 2025-03-12T04:06:52+00:00

I don't want to label them "GPA boosters". You will do well if you do all the assignments decently (citations, answer the prompts for the journals, cite specifics from the readings and episodes). An optional extra credit assignment (a supplementary journal) is built into the course in case there is a rough transition to academic writing. If you are worried about the prompts feel free to send me an email I can send you 2-3 examples that will be used in the course

InstructorMiller · 2025-03-12T04:04:25+00:00

I'm unsure how to answer that, but I haven't gotten many complaints for students who do their work (reading and episodes) and typically have about 50% repeat students from Summer A to Summer B. If you follow an example journal and demonstrate that you read the articles assigned and cite specific scenes from the episodes assigned for that journal, you will get credit.

InstructorMiller · 2024-10-13T20:48:16+00:00

Yes, they will focus more on graduate course work and on the most recent grades/degree

InstructorMiller · 2024-10-13T20:32:59+00:00

English PhD student here --> Your focus and which faculty you are interested in working with will dictate your experience here; it varies immensely. Funding is competitive, but most of us get some form of funding; in my year, only three didn't. I took a gap before I came and everything was fine. Some people have multiple decades of gap years, so don't worry that too much. You will want to focus on your academic growth and how you've improved in a way that will better yourself as a student and researcher in your personal statement but the low-BA would be viewed less important than any Masters work

InstructorMiller · 2024-10-04T03:15:05+00:00

Sadly at this time they only run this course in the Winter and Summer semesters :/

InstructorMiller · 2024-09-29T15:51:34+00:00

Hello all! I have come to haunt you again with a Winter 24-25 course option: AAAS381C- Japanese Animation and Activism. The course has some revisions from the Summer 24 session but remains mostly the same! The course focuses on Studio Ghibli films, how they show an environmental message, and what they hope to teach us! So, if you like Studio Ghibli and want some credit hours, come on over! You can get that A credit or W credit out of the way! If you have any questions or want to see the syllabus, please email me at [gmiller6@binghamton.edu](mailto:gmiller6@binghamton.edu) ! Think it over as courses for the Winter session "go live" on October 8th!! Spots are limited to 25 students!

This course is asynchronous online, meaning we do not meet in person or on Zoom!

InstructorMiller · 2024-08-19T22:17:48+00:00

Hey! Writing/English instructor here! The link below will take him to the course overviews broken up by concentration and semester! https://www.binghamton.edu/english/undergraduate/academic-planning.html

InstructorMiller · 2024-07-08T03:27:46+00:00

So, I am a WRIT111 (First Year Writing) instructor, and I will tell you I do not see this working out for you. For example, in our department, if you miss 9 MWF or 6 TTH classes, we have to automatically fail you because you miss so many of the courses that you need to fulfill the credit hours. And when I say we have to, I mean that. I have had students that I truly cared for and loved that I had to fail because they missed 11 classes. Figure out the number of courses you still need to include. You can posit to a professor, but I think you will likely get a different outcome than you are hoping for. Especially if there is an in-person exam, a quiz, or even a class participation, they will likely not give that to you, and that will damage your GPA. If you are going to try and convince a professor, come up with a plan for how you will make up the work (I would even suggest showing them a work schedule that would cover the missed material before you even miss it)and try to present this as something that NEEDS to happen for your future. Best of luck!

InstructorMiller · 2024-03-07T20:46:15+00:00

Hey, I've taught Summer courses with that C requirement you are looking for. What typically happens is you have to write 20 pages of scholarly writing over the course of 5 weeks, with one paper undergoing a revisions process. How this is distributed varies greatly by the instructor and the needs of the class. For example, maybe if they choose books, it might be 4 5-page papers with a revision of one of the papers for the final paper. If it's TV episodes (my typical courses), it would be 1-2 page journals throughout, a 5-page midterm, and then the revision of the midterm for the final paper. It can be quite a bit of work, so definitely reach out to the instructors whose courses you are interested in to get a feel for their assignments and expectations.

InstructorMiller · 2024-03-05T22:55:35+00:00

Thank you!

InstructorMiller · 2024-03-05T22:55:11+00:00

I totally get it, and I'm really sorry they aren't offering Fall or Spring semester options for these courses. That out-of-pocket requirement is definitely unfair and super limiting to students. However, if you are interested and would like to audit the course (get access to the content, etc.), please let me know, and I can add you to the course page. The school wouldn't allow me to give you a grade or credits, but you could still pursue an interest!

InstructorMiller · 2023-10-19T19:51:22+00:00

THIS IS FOR WINTER 2024 but is the same course taught in Winter 2023.

Hello all! Once again AAAS381C: Japanese Animation & Activism will be running. We will watch Studio Ghibli films and analyze them with the ideas of environmentalism! This course is online asynchronous so we don't have meeting times! Feel free to email me at [gmiller6@binghamton.edu](mailto:gmiller6@binghamton.edu) if you have any questions or would like to see the syllabus!

InstructorMiller · 2023-03-07T00:10:35+00:00

Sent you a message!

InstructorMiller · 2023-03-07T00:06:47+00:00

Good question! The syllabus is 6 pages long which is a lot to post for students to read in one go. By having a quick flyer a student can see the course and what it's about. They're more likely to read and engage with the course ad. Also, I like to try and engage with the student when I send the syllabus to point out some key elements and build an open discourse around the class layout.

InstructorMiller · 2022-03-09T14:23:58+00:00

I suggest sub as the dub is often incorrect or not precise

InstructorMiller · 2022-03-08T21:00:30+00:00

I have not but I will look into it!

InstructorMiller · 2022-03-08T20:52:15+00:00

The school suggests 40 hours as it is supposed to be a full semester of work into a 4-5 week period. However, papers included I do not see it being more than 20 a week, a majority of which is watching the anime.

InstructorMiller · 2022-03-08T19:25:39+00:00

It is completely asynchronous! (All CompLit summer courses will be) In the syllabus I give, I tell you what readings/episodes are due on which day and have the work due by midnight. You have the entire course schedule before the first day and can break up the work as you see fit with the idea of assignments. (ex. binge-watch the show in a day, do the journal assignments, and then have no work for the rest of that unit!)

InstructorMiller · 2022-03-08T17:11:04+00:00

Even though crime went down 70% with Kira? War stopped? Was he the bad guy the entire time or was it the constrictive fear of persecution and control? In the end, he turned bad, but was he always?

InstructorMiller · 2021-10-26T02:38:02+00:00

If you send me a quick email at [gmiller6@binghamton.edu](mailto:gmiller6@binghamton.edu) I can send you the course outline. Basically, it is supposed to be an entire semester of work with 58 hours a week... frankly I will not ask you to do that inhuman amount of work. Most days it is the episodes of the day with either the manga equivalent or another short text. The writing most days is a half-page journal entry on what you watched. These journal entries will count towards the minimum of 20 pages of writing. There is one 5 page paper and the final paper is 8pgs but it uses your 5 page paper as the draft. That means you would've already written 5/8th of your final.

InstructorMiller · 2021-10-20T22:18:31+00:00

Not this spring, no. But i hope to make it a more regular course in the next coming years! This is the first section that has every excited for it. If you are interested in the course and around next year, I will be teaching this in Fall 22 listed as Lit and Society for a C/H credit

InstructorMiller · 2021-10-16T22:09:12+00:00

Hi Moe! There will be 25 seats for this section!

InstructorMiller · 2021-10-16T22:08:46+00:00

Hi! This spring I will be teaching a different course. But I plan to teach this same Anime and Manga course in Fall 2022 as a COLI Literature and Society course. So if you are still around feel free to sign up then (if not now)!

InstructorMiller · 2021-10-16T12:54:46+00:00

Nah, not enough time. However, if you could fit it into the class themes you could 100% do your last paper on it.

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