2024 English, Culture and Communication Program Cyclical Programme Review Implementation Plan Update of Cycle 2

Implementation Update Plan

Recommendation Proposed Follow-up and Resource Implications Responsibility for Leading Follow-up Timeline for Addressing Recommendation
1. Restore faculty strength to level prior to 2018. Develop strategic priorities for hiring that reflect the ECC’s commitment to educating ethical leaders and in relation to urgent new directions in the discipline of English literary studies. Restore hiring process for two previously approved positions

Approval: CDA; Commandant; Principal, Vice-Principal, Academic; Vice-Principal, Finance.

Execution: Department Head, ECC.

 If approved, complete hiring processes in Fall 2024. Issue Letters of Offer for January 2025 start date.
2. Continue to refine curriculum and program requirements in response to crucial and ongoing disciplinary shifts (BIPOC literature, Indigenous and decolonial studies, gender and sexuality studies) through the hiring priorities that the department has established. Initiate curriculum review. Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Curriculum Committee and departmental faculty. This process necessarily includes new positions in World Literatures and Cultures and Indigenous Literatures and Cultures.  Curriculum Committee makes recommendation to ECC end of Fall 2024. Department faculty discuss and finalize Winter 2025. ECC submits Syllabus proposals Fall 2025.
3. Redress workload imbalance between ECC and other units on campus Approve five credit course load for ECC Vice-Principal, Academic Fall/Winter 24/25
4 Continue to build experiential learning opportunities (perhaps with library and special collections) and creative writing offerings as resources allow. Consider making creative writing part of the strategic hiring priorities As part of curriculum review in recommendation 2, (a) review ENE4XX and ENE4XX to introduce experiential learning using library archives and (b) review writing courses as programme requirement. Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Curriculum Committee. Curriculum Committee makes recommendation to ECC end of Fall 2024. Department faculty discuss and finalize Winter 2025. ECC submits Syllabus proposals Fall 2025.
5. Clarify and expand the opportunities for ECC majors within the CAF in recognition of the many ways a degree from ECC contributes to RMC’s mission to educate ethical leaders
  1. Renew contact with Public Affairs and Intelligence.
  2. Revisit bilingual communications minor.
  3. Develop graduate certificate in Equity and Diversity.
  4. Possibly establish formal and regular coordination with MOSID representatives.
  1. Dean, SSH; Department Head, ECC.
  2. Department Head, ECC, in consultation with Department Head, FLC.
  3. Department Head, ECC, and ECC faculty in consultation with Heads of SSH and Dean of Graduate Studies.
  4. Vice Principal, Academic
  1. Fall/Winter 24/25.
  2. Fall/Winter 24/25.
  3. Winter 2025 (if new positions in place)
  4. Updated during annual monitoring
6. Continue to build transparent and consistent practices at both departmental and institutional level around course assignments, service commitments, and course remissions Develop departmental course loading criteria, principles, and processes in accordance with the recommendations of the workload committee report.

Department Head, ECC, in coordination with Dean, SSH, VPA, and Principal.

Updated during annual monitoring
7. Improve RMC / ECC’s website and internal communication of course offerings and departmental information. This will aid in enrolment and recruitment
  1. Adapt existing publicity material to online footprint.
  2. Expand publicity and program information for ECC.
  1. Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Web representative.
  2.  Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Web representative.
  1. Fall/Winter 24/25
  2. As faculty resources are made available.

 

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