syllabus

[Beth Kalikoff <kalikoff@u.washington.edu>]

Hi again.

Thanks to all of you who have taken an interest in my syllabus for the 
writing pedagogy course I'm offering this spring. I'd be happy to send it 
along. It will arrive next year (!), as I'm still pulling the course 
together to teach it for the first time in the spring. I'd welcome any 
suggestions for other books and articles to add. 

A few more thoughts on the advantages of being faculty or staff. 
I haven't found that my status as staff has limited my opportunities to 
offer classroom instruction in other people's courses. This quarter I've 
guest-taught around thirty classes: Education, Business, Nursing, 
Sociology, History, Cultural Studies, Economics, Latin American Studies, 
etc. Of course, much depends on the individuals, departments, and 
programs on your campus.  I realize that I am lucky to be invited. Perhaps 
I am enjoying the honeymoon of being the new Writing Center person on campus. 
But I am enjoying it, and many faculty members have reserved me for 
guest-teaching stints next quarter. 

Personally, I'd enjoy the job security that being a tenured faculty 
member might provide. But when teaching at a public school in the act of 
making budget cuts all over the place--UW is cutting loose tenured and 
untenured faculty members on the Seattle campus--finding other campus 
"homes" for the tenured--the whole job security issue seems tenuous. Most 
of us would have to be tenure-line before we were tenured, after all.  If 
I am evaluated on the basis of my work, that might be security enough. 

Thanks to everyone for their interest. I've been enjoying the WCenter 
line very much. 

Beth