John Swensson

Welcome

John Swensson is an emeritus professor of English at De Anza College, where he has spent the last 31 years. While here, he also served as president of the Academic Senate, dean of the Language Arts Division and interim vice president of Instruction. He currently coordinates the Global Education Partnerships at the college.

The Study Abroad program will go to Paris in summer 2022 and has been to London, Vietnam (many times), Taiwan, Beijing, Belize, Kenya and the Philippines.

He first taught English at his alma mater, West Point, and much of the material in his textbook comes from the U.S. Military Academy – the Plebe English "M1A1 Argumentative Theme." He also wrote the writing text for the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, and was co-producer with a "co-story" credit for the movie "Fire Birds" with Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young and portions of the Army's Apache helicopter fleet.

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Classes I Teach

Winter 2025

CRN	Course	Sec.	Title
39336	EWRT 1A	58Z	Composition and Reading
34065	EWRT 2	68Z	Critical Reading, Writing and Thinking

Fall 2024

CRN	Course	Sec.	Title
24906	EWRT 1A	01Q	Composition and Reading
26313	EWRT 1A	24Q	Composition and Reading
25467	LART 250	01Q	Academic Reading and Writing
26314	LART 250	24Q	Academic Reading and Writing