Something about Wayne Luckmann

During my 42 years at Green River Community College (36 on campus as tenured faculty)

I have managed a variety of courses over the years

English literature survey courses, from ancient to modern; world literature survey courses, from ancient to modern

Creative and Critical Thinking (Humanities Division)

Introduction to Western Philosophy (Humanities Division)

Existentialism and Marxism (Karl's, not Groucho's)

I also directed creative writing classes for a number of years (16), and as an extension of those classes, along with Robert Short, artist, I advised and helped produce a student literary magazine (The Clearing) that attracted the attention of national reviews

Now, no longer on campus, I mostly guide composition classes: English 110: College Writing and English 111: Writing for the Humanities which I manage only online: English Composition 1 and English Composition 2 for Washington Online (WAOL)  I've managed these WAOL classes since Spring Quarter 2000).

Before Green River, I taught at Armstrong College, a four-year school in Berkeley, California, while I attended the University of California

My first year in the Seattle area I taught tenth grade and twelfth grade English for the Seattle School District at Franklin High School

Before I started teaching, I attended Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California

I then went on to do undergraduate and graduate work in literature and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley

While teaching at Green River, I continued my formal education at Claremont University Center where I did graduate work in philosophy, focusing especially on Twentieth Century Anglo-European philosophy

I also worked for a doctorate in philosophy of education and educational policy at the University of Washington in Seattle

My concentration during this work and the dissertation I wrote as a result delineates the conditions under which creativity can be identified in what people do in specific areas of human endeavor

While teaching at Green River, I've had several enriching off-campus educational and professional experiences

a summer teaching composition at Eastern Washington University (Cheney), while at the same time I also  studied Old English and the history of the English language

for several summers a visiting lecturer for a Crucial Issues in Education class while working on a doctorate at the University of Washington in Seattle

a year as exchange faculty at The Evergreen State College (Olympia) in a program titled Tale of World Cities

a quarter as faculty in the Spring Quarter in London program sponsored by the Puget Sound Consortium

a leave from Green River for travel in Mexico to research the life and works of Jose Clemente Orozco, the muralist. At the same time, I explored possible base sites for a Winter in Mexico program in which students could study the language, literature, history, and culture of Mexico

The cabin pictured on my home page at www.instruction.greenriver.edu/luckmann is in my backyard

It's a bit smaller than Saint Henry's cabin at Walden Pond

The cabin is constructed from recycled material, wired, insulated, and lined with cedar

The shell was built by a man out of work who needed money

I did most of the finishing work with occasional help from people who showed up to gossip and were handed a tool

I commuted for twelve years from Kitsap Lake (just west of Bremerton) by way of the Highway 16 corridor and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

During driving time (typically an hour), I listened to language tapes and audiobooks to keep me somewhat sane

Poem