TL;DR for Stu­dents

  • First-years will be able to ful­fil the AWR with non-Eng­lish/ATWP cours­es in the future
  • Eng­lish Dept. is doing well atten­dance-wise!
  • ENSH 355: Mil­ton will be able to ful­fil with­er pre-1660  or post-1660 Hon­ours require­ment
  • A stu­dent assess­ment cen­tre is com­ing to the McPher­son Library, which is wor­ry­ing

Full Notes

  • Sem­i­nar-sized Indige­nous lit sum­mer course was suc­cess­ful
  • Vam­pire course main­tains very high atten­dance
  • Kim McLean-Fian­dar is research­ing at Oxford, and a ‘Women in Ear­ly Mod­ern Writ­ing’ cap­stone is immi­nent upon her return
  • We miss you Iain Hig­gins!
  • New col­lec­tive agree­ment
    • No more course reviews
    • Dis­cus­sion if cer­tain teach­ing profs are tak­ing on a “nor­mal work­load” when teach­ing large-capac­i­ty class­es
  • CORE Pro­gram, which will replace the AWR Pro­gram, tabled at sen­ate and in momen­tum
    • Stu­dents able to sat­is­fy new AWR require­ment with cer­tain large-capac­i­ty cours­es, in addi­tion to exist­ing ENSH and ATWP cours­es
    • Will hope­ful­ly relieve wait­list pres­sure
    • Crit­i­cism from ATWP and Writ­ing Dept. peo­ple
    • Also sen­ate seems to be bull­doz­ing it through via pres­sure on recommendation/watchdog com­mit­tees
  • UVic Eng­lish Dept. doing well rel­a­tive to oth­er depts. in Cana­da
    • Luke Car­son attrib­ut­es cur­ricu­lum changes
  • Motion to merge Oppor­tu­ni­ties Com­mit­tee and Vis­it­ing Speak­ers Com­mit­tee
    • Rea­son: effi­cien­cy
    • Decent mon­ey left­over from past projects for “pro­file-rais­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties” and for vis­it­ing speak­ers
    • Motion to merge pass­es; min­i­mal dis­sent
  • Motion to merge FYI coor­di­na­tors with Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mit­tee
    • Rea­son: effi­cien­cy
    • FYI coor­di­na­tors would become mem­bers of the Comms. Com­mit­tee
    • Motion to merge pass­es unan­i­mous­ly
  • Motion to revise RPT and Appoint­ment Com­mit­tee elec­tion pro­ce­dures
    • Rea­son: process to cre­ate com­mit­tees when hir­ing new fac­ul­ty had fric­tion; need for gen­der equi­ty
      • Also Col­lec­tive Agree­ment man­dates equi­ty
    • (I’m a bit lost on this one)
    • Motion to merge pass­es; some dis­sent 
  • Motion to count ENSH 355: Mil­ton as both pre-1660 and post-1660 Hon­ours require­ments
    • Rea­son: Mil­ton strad­dles two peri­ods
    • Motion pass­es; min­i­mal dis­sent
  • Motion to count WRIT 102 to count as a pre-req for upper-lev­el Pro­Comm cours­es
    • Motion pass­es; min­i­mal dis­sent
  • Motion to restruc­ture ENSH grad­u­ate essay course to stream­line feed­back dead­lines for stu­dents and profs(?)
    • (not very impor­tant for us under­grads, so not much to put down here)
    • Motion pass­es; min­i­mal dis­sent
  • Jen­stead informs fac­ul­ty that a stu­dent assess­ment cen­tre is com­ing to the McPher­son Library, and will eat up study space
  • Meet­ing adjourned

Stu­dent Rep Com­men­tary

For future stu­dent reps, refer to this post as inspi­ra­tion for struc­tur­ing these reports. For curi­ous under­grads, join the ESA and become stu­dent reps! I real­ly believe that it’s impor­tant for Eng­lish stu­dents to be aware of what’s going on in our depart­ment.

Soren Kim