Dear
English Colleague,
You should already have received a letter
notifying you of the upcoming IMPAC meetings
on November 19, in Los Angeles, for those in
southern California, and on January 21, in
San Francisco, for English faculty in northern
California. At this time, when both the California
State University and the University of California
are about to implement new programs for our
English majors to transfer to their respective
campuses, it is important that we share information
and recommend ways to help our English majors
successfully transfer.
These meetings will provide the most current
information about CSU’s Lower Division
Transfer Patterns (LDTP) project and UC’s “Streamlining” project.
Faculty from the community colleges, CSU, and
UC will discuss what changes we might consider
implementing to better prepare our students
for transfer. We will also review the course
descriptors for World Literature I and II and
course objectives for English 1A (CAN 2), both
recommended by last year’s IMPAC groups.
Topics we will discuss include the following:
1. Articulation of courses, especially survey
courses
2. Improvement of the mechanics of articulation
3. Identification of specified competencies
4. CSU’s Teacher preparation program
for English majors
5. CSU Requirements for single-subject English
teaching credential
6. Whether the English discipline should meet
in the future in more local groups centered
around individual university campuses
7. How the English discipline serves students
in other majors
We strongly believe that the faculty-to-faculty
meetings of the IMPAC project provide opportunities
for increased understanding of how each segment
of higher education, as well as individual
campuses, serves our English majors. We further
believe that this understanding leads to
ways to improve the alignment between community
college preparation and requirements of the
universities for English majors, thereby
improving the preparation for our transfer
students and increasing the prospects for
their success.
Please plan on sending one or two representatives
to the IMPAC meeting in your region. Remember,
the IMPAC project will reimburse you for your
expenses.
Mark Snowhite
English Lead |
