Bylaws of the UW Colleges Department of English
Committees of the English Department: 2008-2009
You may also use the DEPT-ENGL email lists on Outlook to contact committees directly. Every committee has an email distribution list that can be accessed using Dept-Engl Committee Name (e.g. Dept-Engl Derleth). The Summer Door County Adventure Committee is the only one whose distribution list name differs from the committee name; it's address is Dept-Engl Planning Summer Subcommittee. Also note that IAS have a distribution list address, Dept-Engl Instructional Academic Staff; faculty have a list address, Dept-Engl Faculty; and all department members can be reached at Dept-Engl.
English Department members can use this free Wikispaces site. To join the space, so you can edit and add pages, click "Join This Space," or email nancy.chick@uwc.edu. (Of course, you can also create your own wiki not associated with the English Department wikis by just going to the Wikispaces home page.)
First-Year Composition Learning Outcomes
Independent Study (ENG 299) Approval Form
Materials from Meetings
Department Meetings
Professional Development Grant Application and the Professional Development Committee's Criteria for Awarding Funding (Just click the link to open the document, save it to your computer, fill it out, and submit it to the chair of the Professional Development Committee. The deadlines are November 20 and April 1.)
Student Evaluation Averages (Fall 2008)
Syllabus Information: Senate Institutional Curricular Policy #104 & some possible language
Online Tools for Conducting Business
Polling Sites
Collaborative Document Sharing
Wikis
Associate Chairs
According to our bylaws, the responsibilities of department representatives (called "Associate Chairs" in the English Department) include interviewing, orienting, and arranging for mentors for lecturers, as well as setting up their class visitations. Representatives may distribute materials and establish schedules as needed by the department; they also share faculty/staff responses from the campus with the chair, as in the case of position requests. Current Associate Chairs are using this wiki to develop a list of typical duties and best practices, as well as responses to the department goals relevant to ACs.
Current Associate Chairs
Baraboo: Ken Grant Marshfield: Julie Tharp Barron: Nancy Chick Richland: Karen McLeer Fond du Lac: Alayne Peterson Rock: John Pruitt Fox: Scott Emmert Sheboygan: Joe Milicia Manitowoc: Dave Gratz Washington: Anne Widmayer Marathon: Holly Hassel Waukesha: Peggy Rozga Marinette: Jennifer Flatt Virtual Campus: Chuck Rybak
Enrollments
Enrollment Limits
Courses |
Maximum Enrollment in PRISM |
|
ENG 098 |
20 |
|
All other writing courses (101, 102, etc.) |
22 |
|
All literature courses |
35 (25 for those with Writing Emphasis designations) |
Please do not over-enroll your courses. For example, the PRISM cut-off for ENG 102 should be exactly 22, not 23 or 24. Waiting lists are recommended. For on-campus courses, instructors with a class below the cap should accept student requests to add until the goal of 22 is reached. Instructors who have more than 22 students on the first day or who wish to increase their enrollments above 22, should consult their English Department Associate Chair in an e-mail and send a copy to the Department Chair.
You can check the enrollments on your campus by going to this UWC Course Schedules page, clicking on your campus, and finding the "Searchable Class Schedule."
You can check the PRISM enrollment cap by looking at your schedule in PRISM and clicking the link to each class. Then, in the table called “CLASS AVAILABILITY,” the first item is “Class Capacity.” That’s the enrollment cap, which should reflect the appropriate number above.
Literature Enrollments
Advising and Student Services
TRAIN ADVISORS: Students completing ENG 101 can go ahead and take lit courses, especially if the 102 sections are closed. Lit courses will help prepare students for ENG 102, especially if they have to wait. The ENG 102 learning outcomes suggest that, at the very least, extra preparation with the Thinking, Reading, and Writing outcomes would be helpful.
LOBBY FOR “SEXIER” COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: Work with Student Services to adapt the description of lit courses in local time tables/course schedules, especially for courses with horribly generic course descriptions and titles (ENG 277, formerly ENG 370 and 380, etc.)
Marketing
POST FLYERS: Post special flyers for lit courses around the campus (Click here to see examples.)
MAKE UP BROCHURES: Distribute brochures for lit courses (Click here to see examples.)
USE A BULLETIN BOARD: Make a “Why take literature?” bulletin board on campus (Click here to see examples.)
USE YOUR MARQUEE: Get a spot on your campus marquee if you have one
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL PAPER: Write press releases touting upcoming lit courses and send to local papers
Exemption from ENG 102
Local English Department Handbooks
Revision to Sigma Kappa Delta Charter for UWC English Department
Service Learning Resources for UWC/UWEX (including a beta version of the page with examples of UWC courses containing service-learning components, titled “UW Colleges course models”)
Tutor Training Materials from Dartmouth's Writing Program (Thanks to Marnie Dresser for this link!)
Mentoring in the English Department
Merit Review Materials: Guidelines
Promotion Criteria and Procedures for Instructional Academic Staff: UW Colleges English Department Criteria & Procedures and UWC Senate Policy IP#322
Review of First-Year English Instructional Academic Staff
English Department Members' Favorite Poems
Marnie Dresser's Departmental Survey on the Pace of Grading Papers
