This article argues that introducing undergraduates to literary criticism and theory can be most effectively accomplished through the teaching of children's literature, fantasy literature, and Disney films alongside traditional literary criticism. We discuss a series of assignments we use in Pursuits of English, our department's introductory theory and criticism course.

The field of adult literacy is complex. This complexity poses many challenges for literacy programs. This paper addresses the challenges of collaboration, diversity, attendance, assessment and professional development as they apply to adult literacy programs. Recommendations for increasing the success of literacy programs are provided.

The issue of power permeates all three collections that I am reviewing here, as it should because all grades, evaluations, and assessments-no matter how naturalistic, contextualized, multidimensional, and richly descriptive-are exercises in power. (Greenberg 277-284).

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Donna Burns Phillips, Ruth Greenberg, Sharon Gibson, College Composition and Communication: Chronicling a Discipline's Genesis, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 443+445-465