Bernard Schopen

schopenBernard Schopen received his degrees at the University of Washington and the University of Nevada, Reno.  He held faculty positions at TMCC and at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire before returning to Reno to write and to teach.  Since 1995 he has taught Core Humanities courses, and he is now a full-time lecturer in the program.  He has taught thousands of students in all three courses, and trained other teachers in the program as well.  He designed, and continues to teach, the online versions of all three CH courses for Extended Studies.  In Spring 2007 he received the prestigious Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award for the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science. The prize augmented an earlier significant award:  Schopen is an inductee into the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame, an honor recognizing his three Reno detective novels, The Big Silence, The Desert Look, and The Iris Deception, all now available from the University of Nevada Press.  When not preparing his now award-winning lectures for Core Humanities, he is at work on another novel, this one set in London.

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