Resume

Caroline P. Krejci
El Centro, CA 92243
CarolineK9@earthlink.net

Education

• MA in English Composition, California State University, San Bernardino, March 2000.  GPA: 3.94
• BA in English, with a minor in Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside, June 1992.  GPA: 3.576

Thesis
            Grice’s Implicature and Toulmin’s Warrents:  Their Arresting Similarities and the             Resulting Implications for the Understanding of Meaning in Communication

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, San Diego State University --
Imperial Valley Campus at Calexico, August 2005 – present
Teaching English Composition Classes:

• Rhetoric and Writing Studies 92A Developmental Writing:  Fundamentals of Writing
• Rhetoric and Writing Studies 200 Rhetoric of Written Arguments in Context
• Rhetoric and Writing Studies 280 Academic Writing and Reading
• Rhetoric and Writing Studies 500W Advanced Composition (Mass Comunications Focus)

Added content to and updated the Blackboard course management web cites for all classes.

Adjunct Instructor, Imperial Valley College, June 2005 – May 2006
            Teaching English Composition classes:

• English  98 Basic English Composition
• English 100 Basic English Composition
• English 101 Reading and Composition

Took an on-line class, through Foothill College, on the Etudes course management system

Lecturer, University of California at Riverside, September 2001—April 2004: 
Taught English Composition classes:

• English 4D English Writing Discussion Sections
• English 4A English Writing
• English 5D Ideas in Conflict Discussion Sections
• English 5 Ideas in Conflict
• English 1A Beginning Composition
• English 1B Intermediate Composition
• English 1C Applied Intermediate Composition

Did placement reading for Basic Writing Classes and read Subject A Exams.  Team taught English 5 Discussion Sections and independently taught English 1B in the department's computer-equipped classroom.  Added content to and kept updated Blackboard web cites for the English 4A, 1B and 1C classes.

Adjunct Instructor, Crafton Hills College, August 2000—July 2001, September 2002 — December 2002, & January 2004 –May 2005: 
Taught English Composition classes:

• English 914 Basic English Skills
• English 015 Preparation for College Writing

Read department-wide final exams. 

Adjunct Faculty, University of Redlands, September 1997—April 2005:
Taught English Composition classes:

• English 100 Expository Writing
• English 101 Writing Tutorial (both one-on-one and as a class)
• English 102 Critical Thinking and Writing
• English 102E Critical Thinking and Writing for Liberal Studies Majors
• English 301 Upper Division Writing Tutorial (one-on-one)
• English 309 Persuasive Writing

Read placement exams and read department-wide final exams.
Added content to and kept updated Blackboard web sites for the English 100, 101, 102E, 301, and 309.

Adjunct Instructor, San Bernardino Valley College, January 1997—August 2001:
Taught English Composition classes:

• English 015 Preparation for College Writing
• English 101 Freshman Composition
• English 102 Intermediate Composition and Critical Thinking 

Read placement exams and read department-wide final exams.  Took place in a Title III study of collaborative learning.

Teaching Assistant, California State University at San Bernardino, April 1996—December 1996: 
Taught English 101 Freshman Composition. 

Three Internships in English and English Composition, 1994-95:  at California State University, San Bernardino under the direction of Professor Bruce Golden; at the University of California, Riverside, under the supervision of Assistant Director of English 1C, Michael Heumann; and at Crafton Hills College, under the supervision of Liberal Arts Department Chair, Mark Snowhite.  Duties included: assisting with the teaching of classes, both in groups and with individual students.

Related Work
Reader for Educational Testing Service's Subject A Reading, June 2003.  Duties included:  reading and scoring Subject A Exams at the Clark Kerr Campus at University of California at Berkeley.

Tutor for the Adult Literacy Program at the A.K. Smiley Public Library, April 2003 — May 2005.  Duties include:  completing literacy program training, working with one adult student on a weekly basis to help the student develop reading skills, and filing monthly progress reports.
 
Assistant to Dolores Tanno, Editor of the International Intercultural Communications Annual, June 1995-June 1996.  Duties included: organizing submitted essays, corresponding and coordinating with editors, submitters, and publishers using phone, fax, Windows 3.1, and mail.

President of the Graduate English Student Association at CSU San Bernardino, for the 1994-95 academic year.  Duties included: coordinating meetings and organizing all social events and fundraising for graduate students; arranging library tours for graduate students; acting as intermediary between faculty and students.

Office Manager for Mosaic, UCR's literary magazine, for the 1990-91 academic year.  Duties included: organizing submissions, coordinating schedules for editors, and assisted in public relations.

Member of the Poetry Selection Committee for Mosaic, for 1989-90 academic year.  Duties included: assessing and critiquing all poetry submissions.

References available upon request.