CONTENTS

From the Editor

LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THEORY

Teaching Literature or Teaching Students?
Elizabeth B. Bernhardt

Language and Literary Study as Cultural Criticism
Azade Seyhan

From Culture to the Canon: Lanson's Mission in America
Allan Stoekl

Back to the Future: Curricular Change and the Culture Wars
Carmen Chaves Tesser

ASSESSMENT, METHODOLOGY, AND TECHNOLOGY

Practical Approaches to Outcomes Assessment: The Undergraduate Major in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro

Aspects of Accuracy in a Proficiency-Oriented Program
Chuanren Ke

Where Is Computer Technology Taking Us?
Peter C. Patrikis

DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND COMMUNITIES

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Foreign Language Programs and the Community
Clorinda Donato

Highlights of the MLA's Survey of PhD-Granting Modern Language Departments: Changes in Faculty Size from 1990 to 1994

Changes in Faculty Size from 1990 to 1994: A Survey of PhD-Granting Modern Language Departments
Bettina J. Huber

Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Accommodating the Learning Disabled Student in the Foreign Language Curriculum
Francis X. Moore III

The Human Factor in Chairing the Foreign Language Department
John A. Schillinger

Back Matter Winter 1995