CONTENTS

From the Editor

The Undergraduate Curriculum

Is There a Culture in This Language?
Peter C. Patrikis

The Case for Theory
Maria Shevtsova

Teaching Literature through Theory: A New Model for the Undergraduate Major
William E Cipolla

Tracking Objectives: Conceptual Competencies and the Undergraduate Curriculum
Katherine Arens and Janet Swaffar

Moving a Graveyard: Or, Revising the Major in a Small Liberal Arts College
Richard C. Williamson

From Dual to Single Track: Revision of the Undergraduate French Major at the University of California, Davis
Gerald Herman

Teaching French Women Writers—the First Time
Ellen S. Silber

Perspectives on the Profession

The Missing Link in Vision and Governance: Foreign Language Acquisition Research
Claire J. Kramsch

Second Language Acquisition Research: Does it Suggest Program Goals?
Heidi Byrnes

The Research Commitment: Some Observations
Robert Jay Glickman

American Internationalism in the Year 2000
Gerald Gillespie

When to Teach What: From Postovsky through Bialystok and On down Foreign Language Methodology Lane
Richard V. Teschner

The University of Oregon's Summer Institute for the Combined Study of History and Literature
David J. Curland

The Language Immersion Program at New Paltz
Henry Urbanski