Describes a conference entitled Teaching for the Public Good: The Future of the Humanities in Public Higher Education. Considers what effect the humanities can and should have on public higher education now. Outlines the objectives of the conference. Discusses what is meant by public education. Considers the responsibility of humanities educators…

Spotlights one site where the new curriculum calls the English department at Louisiana State University toward further change: the juncture between the undergraduate and graduate curricula. Illustrates the benefits of adopting a document that articulates curricular goals. Describes a five-year curriculum revision process. Attaches excerpts from a…

Offers a case study in curriculum change that reveals a very different experience--one that demonstrates a discipline more alive than ever. Presents a story of how the lively canon debates prompted the English department at Montclair State University to restructure the English major. Finds that the culture wars, critical theory, poststructuralism,…

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

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…

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)

Recounts the process and narrates the steps taken by the English department at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, in its major renovation of its outdated English curriculum. Describes the working conditions of the department and the newly devised curriculum. (HB)

Considers how in the 1990s most English departments have altered curricula to accommodate the explosion of the canon, the emphasis on cultural studies, the arrival of new technology in writing and literature classrooms, and the varied learning styles of students. Discusses how many of these changes have been patches rather than substantial…

Describes how adjunct courses can encourage students to see writing as a process of discovery and creation. (CRH)

Describes a practical approach to curricular revision from the point of view of a English department chair who presided over the remaking of the graduate curriculum and the hiring of new faculty. (RS)

Focuses on the general anxiety changes in authority, convention, and tradition provoke in college faculty as a result of curriculum reform. Discusses an English department chair's personal experiences that were on her mind as she set about revamping an introductory fiction course. Offers her experiences as a cautionary tale about curriculum…

Describes how the English department at Willamette University set out to revise the English curriculum as a participant in the MLA-FIPSE English Programs Curriculum Review Project. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, and shares three important ideas that might be useful to other departments undertaking similar changes. (HB)

Considers aspects of good masters and doctoral programs in creative writing and suggests ways in which to integrate creative writing with literature programs. (CRH)

Describes how the English department at Merrimack College set out to revise the English curriculum as a participant in the MLA-FIPSE English Programs Curriculum Review Project. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, and articulates two strategies marking the successful phases of the process. (HB)

Describes how the English department at Roger Williams University set out to revise and revive the English major under difficult circumstances during the 1988-89 school year. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, recruited new majors, and established support programs. (HB)