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World Languages, Literatures & Cultures Task Force Public Forum

World Languages, Literatures & Cultures Task Force Public Forum. April 2, 2014 Focus: Research, curriculum, and collaboration. How can we prepare ourselves to teach undergraduates and graduates for the future? How can we develop new competencies and strategies necessary to our students?

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World Languages, Literatures & Cultures Task Force Public Forum

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  1. World Languages, Literatures & Cultures Task ForcePublic Forum April 2, 2014 Focus: Research, curriculum, and collaboration

  2. How can we prepare ourselves to teach undergraduates and graduates for the future? How can we develop new competencies and strategies necessary to our students? How can we improve advocacy, representation, communication beyond our individual departments? How can we optimize our resources in a challenging fiscal environment? We have a small window of opportunity to chart a vision for the future.

  3. Challenges: --- national level

  4. Challenges: --- national level --- consortial level (CIC)

  5. Challenges: --- national level --- consortial level (CIC) --- campus level

  6. Challenges: --- national level --- consortial level (CIC) --- campus level --- departmental level

  7. Departmental silos: --- We miss key opportunities for innovation in academic programs and instruction: --- new interdisciplinary undergraduate majors --- graduate degrees/certificates --- team teaching --- duplication of effort/courses --- digital humanities

  8. Departmental silos: --- We miss key opportunities for innovation in academic programs and instruction: --- maximizing the impact of new instructional technologies --- projecting our research profiles collectively

  9. Beyond the departmental silos: How do we engage effectively in conversations at the national, consortial and campus level about the future of our programs in the context of the "crisis in the Arts and Humanities"?

  10. Our range of choices ? ? ? ? ? ? VH chairs School of leader represents WLLC all of our departments, VH chairs formalized as representative body

  11. Prepared for the WLLC Task Force, December, 2013

  12. Our range of choices The draft proposal for the WLLC has deliberately left a great number of important points vague, since we collectively need to articulate the specifics should we decide to move ahead.

  13. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- maximizing current resources: using current courses in literature/culture in translation and language to develop a new undergraduate major in World Languages, Literatures and Cultures (ideally with a study abroad component).

  14. Our range of choices --- maximizing current resources: using current staffing to develop team-taught interdepartmental courses: 'Making War, Making Peace from Antiquity to the Modern Period' 'World cinema in a period of globalization' 'Transnational literature in a period of migration' 'Language and migration in an international perspective' 'Ancient and Modern World Literatures'

  15. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- develop a graduate certificate in instructional technology

  16. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- develop a graduate certificate in instructional technology --- develop an undergraduate/graduate certificate (or MA) in translation theory & practice

  17. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- develop a graduate certificate in instructional technology --- develop a certificate in translation theory --- develop an interdisciplinary certificate in Language Sciences

  18. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- develop a graduate certificate in instructional technology --- develop a certificate in translation theory --- develop an interdisciplinary certificate in Language Sciences --- develop a graduate seminar in comparative literary theories

  19. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- develop a graduate certificate in instructional technology --- develop a certificate in translation theory --- develop an interdisciplinary certificate in Language Sciences --- develop a graduate seminar in comparative literary theories --- professional development for graduate students

  20. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- project our research profiles by organizing our areas of expertise thematically: e.g., literary theory, medieval literature,film, language variation and change, early modern studies, syntax, second language acquisition, gender studies, migration studies, eco-criticism.

  21. Our range of choices Some initial ideas: --- project our research profiles by organizing our areas of expertise thematically: e.g., literary theory, medieval literature,film, language variation and change, early modern studies, syntax, second language acquisition. --- encourage collaboration in research and teaching across these broad thematic groupings.

  22. Our range of choices What would not change: --- Tenure and promotion process at the departmental level --- Stewardship of trust funds --- Establishment of program-level hiring priorities

  23. Our range of choices What could change: --- Tenure and promotion packages could be reviewed at the school level for formal completeness and coherence --- Engagement with UW Foundation for ongoing and coherent development strategy --- Advocacy for especially pressing hiring needs

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