Lectures, Courses, and Seminars

Heath occasionally gives lectures and seminars on one or another aspect of research related to learning, human development, and language and literacy. This subsection will list those lectures and seminars scheduled in the coming six months and will be updated twice a year.

At Stanford University, Heath teaches courses primarily in the departments of English and Linguistics, with all courses cross-listed between either these two departments or between Linguistics and Anthropology. She also teaches for the programs in Public Policy and Urban Studies, often team-teaching with Greg Dees of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.

Lectures:

In the Autumn term of 2000-2001, Heath is scheduled to give lectures on language learning in middle and later childhood at several universities. She will also take part in a special symposium at the American Anthropology Association meetings in San Francisco on the history of ethnography of communication, with special relevance to education.

Early in January 2001, Heath will take part in the North of England Education Conference, talking about learning development across communication media.

Courses:
Included here is the listing of courses Heath is scheduled to teach 2000-2001. Syllabi and text selections will be posted by mid-summer.

Language and Youth Culture (Linguistics/Anthropology/Urban Studies)
Writing and Critical Thinking (English= freshman writing)
Theories of Narrative and Genre (English/Linguistics-graduate level)
Language and Gender in Contemporary American Fiction (English/Linguistics)
Social Entrepreneurship (Public Policy/Urban Studies) with Greg Dees, Graduate School of Business

Seminars:

During the month of July, Heath will be working in the highlands of Papua New Guinea with linguists and literacy experts from the Pacific to devise and plan "post-vernacular" literacy initiatives within the islands. The seminar will bring together linguists, education policymakers, teachers, and literacy personnel from eight nations.

In December, 2000, Heath will return to the University of Stockholm to take part in the final portion of a seminar on ethnography and organizational learning taught for Scandinavian graduate students through short-courses in segments between September 1999 and December 2000. This project has been a joint venture among Free University, Berlin; Stanford University, and the University of Stockholm.