Three key areas of confusion in the English department--composition, curriculum, and humanism--can be resolved by marshaling ideas from social dramatism, games theory, and sociobiology. (DD)

A former English department chairman looks back with optimism at the state of English education since 1930 and discusses how it might be of use in developing future curricula. (HTH)

Even a quick tour through the professional literature of composition and rhetoric reveals that the profession has failed to bring about any real change in first-year college composition. The truth is that today the political and material conditions of first-year composition programs are not much different from that they were over a half century…

Describes a five-meeting cycle which enables a high school English department to cooperate in making constructive curriculum changes. (DD)

Discusses the role of literature in the English curriculum and the problems facing the English department at the University of Tennessee. (FL)

Suggests that genre and time-line college literature courses give way to thematic courses and cooperative courses within other departments. (FL)

Satirizes college English instruction, specifically "catchy" composition programs and the relevant grant awards and job placement of graduate students. (JM)

Discusses the state of English studies, focusing on the literary canon, literature and other disciplines, the function of theory, and the politics of literature. (MM)

English departments of the future must encompass composition, language, literature, reading, mass media, teacher preparation, adult education, logic, and educational research. (DD)

Considers the demands being placed on English departments for better teaching of writing and calls for a new emphasis on research in the teaching of writing. (AA)

Discusses need for a clear sense of the policies and objectives of the English department, to guide reactions to current problems. (AA)

Examines the offerings of the English department at the University of Michigan, offers observations on writing in America (based on the book "The Writer's Market"), and concludes that what goes on in the English classroom has few significant implications for most writing in America. (JM)

Questions the fragmentation of the teaching of English into such diverse subjects as reading, writing, speech, journalism, drama, and freshman composition, considering such divisions harmful to the purpose and future of English departments. (AEA)

Describes the efforts of a college English department to redesign its English curriculum. Includes a curriculum outline and descriptions of specific courses. (AEA)