Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons Teaching & Learning Theses & Dissertations Teaching & Learning Fall 2019 I Had to Do the Reading: A Phenomenological Case Study of College English Students Jennifer Eleanor Frank Old Dominion University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/teachinglearning_etds Part of the Curriculum and Instruction Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, and the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Frank, Jennifer E.. "I Had to Do the Reading: A Phenomenological Case Study of College English Students" (2019). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Dissertation, Teaching & Learning, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/6na1-8q73 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/teachinglearning_etds/59 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Teaching & Learning at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Teaching & Learning Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. I HAD TO DO THE READING: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL CASE STUDY OF COLLEGE ENGLISH STUDENTS by Jennifer Eleanor Frank B.A. May 2005, George Mason University M.S.Ed. August 2012, Old Dominion University A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Old Dominion University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY EDUCATION OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY November 2019 Approved by: Judith Dunkerly-Bean (Director) Helen Crompton (Member) Thomas W. Bean (Member) ABSTRACT Jennifer E. Frank Old Dominion University, 2019 Director: Dr. Judith Dunkerly-Bean The purposes of this qualitative phenomenological case study were to investigate multiple student experiences in a general elective introduction to literature course when music was added as an autonomously structured assignment.