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School of Arts & Letters
Jayasri Majumdar Hart
Office: English Department, E&T A618
My native India made me multilingual and provided the perfect environment for me to hone my skills as language teacher and producer of educational media. I brought those skills to Los Angeles in 1987, after I married writer Bill Hart and came to work here as a documentary filmmaker. Teaching English at CSULA started as a part-time gig with attractive benefits, but over fourteen years, it has become a vocation. My students have kept me young and taught me much.
My primary interest is in language acquisition--the reason I teach Developmental Writing almost exclusively. I have also taught Interpretation of Film (English 225) on occasion. Having designed, constructed, used, and refined internet (WebCT) sites for most of my courses, I am a believer in the effectiveness of a multimedia learning environment.
RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS For my Indian M.Litt thesis, I studied the use of English in Biology 101, by a class of female college freshmen, whose prior knowledge of English was no more than 2 years of high school ESL. As a filmmaker, my interests have ranged from go-kart racing to western classical music, but with a special focus on South Asians. Representative Professional Work
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