Re: syllabus

[amoser@ruacad.ac.runet.edu]

Beth--
I am in the process of putting together a course proposal for Fall 1995.  
I would love to see your syllabus too.  Thanks so much.

Ann Moser
Box 6935
Radford University
Radford, VA 24142

> > 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 
>