This study focuses on the place and role of the humanities, especially the liberal arts in emerging economies which rely vastly on the development of national skills and expertise. It is based on one example of a publicly funded university in Oman where the urgency of creating a skilled workforce has led to an exercise in aligning higher education…

It has been substantiated that Academic English must be an integral component of ESL students' study at foreign languages departments to achieve success as professionals and be ready to realize themselves in a demanding world of today. We have defined the main problem on the way to it, namely the insufficient provision of the Academic English…

Throughout much of the 20th century, English departments were the crown jewels of the humanities. Exposure to great literature was often considered essential for students expected to assume lead roles in business, law, government, and society. Today, English departments have lost their position at the center of the American university. Enrollments…

Presents the main points from the transcript of a speech on what education is about and how the English curriculum should be designed. (RB)

Reviews the history of a college English department from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. (MM)

Examines (in the context of how English programs have been or should be changed) the assumption that intellectual life has become structured around issues. (RS)

Offers some reflections on the professional commitments of undergraduate English and argues the need for establishing clearly defined educational goals. (RB)

Indicates how the province of English has changed in recent years, using a dialogue between Socrates and an English professor to dramatize the point. (RB)

Examines the impulses that led to the curriculum reform movements in the United States and Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. (RB)

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

Suggests the ways in which English teachers should seek to develop students' predispositions toward English study, thereby enhancing the value of an English major in combination with other professional and vocational pursuits. (RL)

Describes curriculum review at the State University of New York, Oswego, where faculty and administrators tried to develop an English major that would preserve the best traditional practices and institutionalize innovation. Concludes that curriculum revision would not have moved forward without the Modern Language Association-Fund for the…

Provides an extensive narrative describing how the full-time English faculty at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, developed a successful advanced writing requirement. (HB)

Outlines three ways that literary theory has been brought into the English classroom over the past decade. Describes in detail the innovative model for curricular change used by the English department at Carnegie Mellon University in the 1980s. (HB)