Sketches a scenario describing the possible future of English studies in the United States. Discusses the sources of division and anger within the profession. Considers the obstacles that impede healthy professional conversations within departments. (HB)

Identifies the ideas of the good that organize the professional lives of English college faculty. Discusses how these ideas should help faculty to constitute their departments, colleagues, and students. Applies insights from Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to departmental discussions. (HB)

Suggests that the intellectual challenges of contemporary literary study be seen as enriched by, rather than in competition with, knowledge of the history of literary theory; and that English departments cultivate a determined antagonism to disciplinary territorialism, whether in faculty hiring, curricular design, or graduate admissions. (RS)

Considers how decisions about curriculum, hiring, and institutional policies have changed due to increasing regulatory, legal, and financial pressures conflicting with ever-magnifying and multiplying sense of need. Identifies three dominant models of institutional governance--models that represent different emphases and that, for the purposes of…

As a special topics course in composition, ENEX 495: "Women, Writing, and Rhetoric" is a program elective for graduate students in the English department, English majors, Gender and Women's Studies students, and a writing-intensive elective for non-majors at The University of Montana, a doctoral granting institution located in the Rocky…

Planning of curriculum change should include planning to cope with let-down that threatens to undermine or routinize innovations. (JH)

Curriculum change is usually haphazard and externally motivated. (JH)

Argues that English departments are experiencing a crisis of identity that is economic, political, and psychological. (SRT)

This lecture, by a professor of English and literature who is a recipient of the AAU (Association of Atlantic Universities) Instructional Leadership Award, states that the lecturer does not have a lot of faith in faculty development as a way of improving university teaching. The lecture also states that the professor is generally skeptical of…

Discusses the trend in colleges and universities toward interdisciplinary instruction organized under a Communication Arts program, but deplores the decline of English as a discipline. (RB)

Tells the story of one English department's struggle over curriculum controversies and the implications of that struggle for the integrity of specific teachers' classroom curriculum and the literary education of their students. (TB)

The creative responses of the University of California at Berkeley English Department to changing social and economic conditions are described and recommended as exemplary. (JH)

This curriculum guide discusses the Burlingame High School English Department policies, procedures, and course offerings (phased English courses and selective/elective course offerings). Minimum requirements and booklists for leveled English, selective booklists and media lists, elective booklists, senior elective booklists, film order…

Examines the typical curriculum in an English department and the place of literary and critical theory within it. (SRT)