Des Moines Area Community College

Sharran S. Slinkard

Department of Arts and Sciences, Literature

Coordinator, London Study Abroad Program

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all”

--Henry David Thoreau

ØBackground Information

DMACC Professor Since 1992

M.A. Literary Studies, Composition Theory—University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

B.A. Literature—University of Wisconsin-Madison

ØContact Information

ssslinkard@dmacc.edu

515-964-6549

Building 2, Room 5, Office U

Spring Office Hours: Monday-Friday 11:30-12:30

Ø Fall Semester Classes

Women Writers

LIT 190-A

TR 9:40-11:05

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”—Emily Dickinson

Introduction to Literature

LIT 101-D

MWF 1:25-2:20

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”—Hamlet

Science Fiction Literature

LIT 166-A

TR 12:50-2:15

“Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard”—Brother Francis, A Canticle for Leibowitz

Contemporary World Literature

LIT 185-B

MWF 10:10-11:05

“I will tell you something about stories, they aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”—Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko

Ø DMACC London Study Abroad Program

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." —Samuel Johnson

Each spring, DMACC offers its students the opportunity to study abroad. Check out the links below for more information. Cheers!

Spring 2009 General Information London Flyer Optional Scotland Tour Application for Spring 2009

British Life and Culture Course Financial Aid Information London Travelogue Spring 2008 Scholarship Opportunity

Hostel Information: http://hostelworld.com/

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