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End-of-Term Celebration!
Please plan to come to the English Department’s gala end-of-term celebration and potluck dinner Monday, December 9, at Pebble Hill. More information will be arriving soon in your department mailbox.


Great Books Proposal Discussion and Results
Thanks to everyone who attended the Open Forum discussion of the Great Books scheduling proposal and especially to everyone who spoke on the issue. One important reason to go slowly with pilot projects is to try to prevent any unintentional, undesirable consequences that may crop up and to capitalize on the unintentional but pleasant consequences that may occur as well. 

Below are the results of the survey taken at that meeting. Please let Constance Relihan or members of the GB Committee know if you would like to participate in the pilot study or if you have any ideas or information you think could be of use.

Survey Results:

Assessment Reminder
Please remember to collect two copies of the second formal paper your students submit in each of your Great Books sections. Later you will be told which papers to forward to the GB Committee for assessment. Your continued cooperation is appreciated.


French Week Screenings
In honor of National French Week, Pi Delta Phi (the French Honor Society) is sponsoring the following screenings:

Great Books students and English majors and faculty are invited to attend (in part because members of this group have been enjoying our Great Flicks series!). Contact Susan Clay (844-6842) if you have any questions.

Women and Politics: A Global Perspective
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the College of Liberal Arts are pleased to invite you to a major university-sponsored public event entitled "Women and Politics: A Global Perspective." This event will be held at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center on Thursday, November 21, 2002.

For more information about the event click here. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

CLA to offer IT Workshops
The College of Liberal Arts will offer two workshops from December 17, 2002 to December 19, 2002. The workshops will be: The Ultimate WebCT Crash Course and Advanced PowerPoint/Power Point 2002.  

The Ultimate WebCT Crash Course
This workshop will give you an intense introduction into the course management tool WebCT.  It will help greatly if you have already created your content (i.e., text files, images files, list of links, PowerPoint presentations).  This workshop will run in the mornings from 8:30-noon in 201 Tichenor.  We will work on the following points but will also have time to deal with individual questions and concerns:

Advanced PowerPoint/Power Point 2002
This workshop will introduce participants to PowerPoint 2002 and its new features.   It will be useful if you already have some content, data, and images that can be used to design your own PowerPoint presentation for either teaching or other presentation purposes.  This workshop will run in the afternoons from 1:00-4:30 in 201 Tichenor except for December 17, where we will meet from 12:30-3:00.  This session will cover the following topics: 

In order to be considered for either of these workshops (and you can apply for both), please send your proposals to Bryan Taylor or Wiebke Kuhn by November 22nd.  Your proposal should answer the following:

Participants will receive a modest stipend of $200 for their completed participation.

Spring Comps
The list of Comp examiners for Spring 2003 has been posted; see Jeremy Downes for more information.

French Week Screenings
In honor of National French Week, Pi Delta Phi (the French Honor Society) is sponsoring the following screenings:

Great Books students and English majors and faculty are invited to attend (in part because members of this group have been enjoying our Great Flicks series!). Contact Susan Clay (844-6842) if you have any questions.

If you would like to include an item in the "Professional Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note to Betsy Smith or Alise Chabaud.

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Please submit items and direct all questions or comments about The English Channel to Betsy Smith or Alise Chabaud.

To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 a.m. for publication Wednesday. Graphic images are due by the preceding Friday at 11:40 a.m. Submit items by email or by putting a note or disk in Alise Chabaud's mailbox (disks will be returned). If you submit an image on disk, please make sure that it can be edited to fit and be read clearly on the page. Items over fifty words in length should be submitted on disk or sent by email. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion--all calendar items and meeting announcements must include the date, time, and location of the event. Please omit all unusual formatting.