学生的声音

斯科特·雷兹尼克，12岁，英语
Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh

“Though it likely sounds exaggerated or cliché, the master’s program in English at 全球十大网赌正规平台 most certainly changed my life.

“从职业的角度来看, the top-notch professors provided me with the training, 指导, and support I needed to transition from a job in the business world to a career in academia. But that statement doesn’t do justice to what I experienced in the intimate classroom settings each week, for it was among Trinity’s welcoming intellectual community and the literary works we pored over each week that I discovered who I truly was and the larger role that I wanted both literature and education to play in my life. 三一是知识渊博的, supportive professors helped me to develop the skills I needed down the road, both in the doctoral program I went on to after graduating from Trinity and in my new career as an English professor. But they also opened up whole new perspectives on the world and the role that art and literature play in it.

“Simply put: I would not be where I am today without Trinity’s master’s program, and I recommend that anyone interested in pursuing their intellectual curiosity or looking to have new opportunities opened for them consider [Trinity’s] programs.”

马修·索莱克，22岁，英语

“As an Administrative Lieutenant in a busy police department, 我进行研究, 公开发言, 不断地写作, and studying at Trinity elevated all of those skills for me, 还有更多.

“Entering Trinity after an over 10-year break from getting my undergraduate degree was a little daunting at first, but one of the first classes that made the graduate program accessible to me was “Introduction to Research Methods.” Explaining the expectations and outlines of the program was an enormous help, 在最初的几个学期里, the support I got from faculty and advisers at Trinity was key.

“作为一个忙碌的专业人士和家长, my time while I was studying at Trinity was extremely limited, and I sought help from the Writing Center and library research assistants on a regular basis to stay on track and current with assignments. 然而, I noticed that as I got closer to completion of my master’s degree, the same advisers and faculty I had worked with since I started began to push me academically and encourage me to take a bigger responsibility in creating my own content and allowed me to curate my own field of study within the English Department. The wide diversity of classes I got to take at Trinity was astonishing—everything from prison literature to gender studies to American literature and compositional studies—and they all impacted how I created my final capstone project.”

贾宇，17岁，英语

从全球十大网赌正规平台毕业后, I worked as an English teacher and counselor in a private high school in Dongguan, 中国. The language and cultural competencies I acquired at Trinity also provided me with invaluable skills to help my students prepare for their college life in the United S塔特.

“At Trinity, I benefited from learning with professors who are experts in their fields. Professor Bilston led the students through the history of Victorian literature and explored questions about feminism and history in Victorian literature in “Woman and Empire.” In Professor James [Prakash] Younger’s Dickens/Chaplin course, his expertise in cinema led students to see interesting connections between literary works and 电影.

“I also learned how to be a better teacher from the professors at 全球十大网赌正规平台. 在这些课程中, the professors’ approaches to literature were interdisciplinary and creative, which showed me how to engage with students via challenging readings. 在现代诗歌课上, 罗森教授使用的绘画, 电影, and music to compare poetry and parallel arts of its time. 在美国现代主义课堂上, Professor Mrozowski led the students into the postwar American literary world with rich analyses of posters, 电影, 和杂志. 在以研讨会为导向的课程中, theories of language and culture started to make sense as I saw how peers connected them with American pop culture. The interdisciplinary nature of the classes motivated me to use a variety of teaching methods and assignments to teach students struggling with challenging readings.

“Trinity is a place for anyone considering a career in education or literature. The professors I had here are deeply interested in bringing forth the best of every student. The training Trinity offers helps to develop strong core skills, 比如阅读, 分析, 批判性思维, which are necessary and can be applied in so many different contexts, 从教育到商业.”