academicprogramreviewreport-sacramentostate.doc

ACADEMIC PROGRAM REVIEW REPORT Department of English College of Arts and Letters Spring 2007 Review Team Members: Alyson Buckman, Humanities and Religious Studies Jackie R. Donath, Humanities and Religious Studies (team chair) Brett Holland, Biology Francis Yuen, Social Work I/Overview Documents Consulted Department of English Self-Study, Spring 2006 California State University 2006-2008 Catalog Vitae of Department of English faculty Department of English course syllabi Department of English Staff Position Description Forms Department of English ARTP Policies and Procedures External Consultant Report for the Department of English, April 2007 Individuals Interviewed Dr. Sheree Meyer, Chair, Department of English Tenured Faculty Members, Department of English Part-time Faculty Members, Department of English Support Staff, Department of English Department of English students, both undergraduate and graduate Dr. Jeffrey Mason, Dean, College of Arts and Letters, CSUS Dr. Jim Kohn, San Francisco State University, External Consultant The Department of English is one of eleven departments in the College of Arts and Letters. The Department also participates in the School of the Arts, an organizational framework which was constructed to facilitate collaboration among the departments of Art, Design, English and Theater and Dance. The Department describes itself as a “community of teachers, scholars, writers, and support staff whose primary mission is to promote learning in composition, creative writing, English education, linguistics, literature, and the teaching of English as a second language.” The undergraduate curriculum has been developed to support a major baccalaureate focus—the study of literature in English and in translation. The BA major requires 45 units, of which 27 must be upper division. The major is organized into upper and lower division courses, requirements for one of eleven areas of interest and twelve units of electives. The De