Hello and Welcome!

This page makes available to you some information about some of my activities here at Champlain College. As you may already know, I teach. That is the primary direction of everything that the college has me do, and most of it is in the classroom. In that setting, or setup, I teach students how to become more competent and more confident at writing. That's in English Composition. In other courses, such as Introduction to Literature and British Literature, I initiate them to what remains for me one of the great pleasures of life, the world of literature and reading. Because I really mean the part about pleasure, I also organized the Champlain College Book Club, for students who do all their course work and still want to read more. From this page you can find out about that, too. The Honors Program, that you see mentioned somewhere here, has to do with teaching and with reading. That program is a sequence of courses intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students who come to us with a strong beginning at a good academic record. To keep them happy and engaged, Champlain College offers courses that promise to stretch them and help them to grow.

These activities all involve teaching the young and all help explain why I like it here -- at the college, not on this page.

Besides teaching at Champlain College, most years I also teach one term (summer, usually) at John Cabot University in Rome. A couple of years ago I took a group of students from Champlain College to visit Rome for two weeks and to see that college.. The other form that teaching takes for me can be found in some of the books that I've brought out. You can easily read about those at amazon.com, when you have the time. For now, please enjoy browsing these pages.

Dr. Nancy Nahra

nahra@champlain.edu
802-651-5920