Jaschik, Scott. "Coherence, Literature, Languages." INSIDE HIGHER ED December 23, 2008.

When literature and language professors gather in San Francisco this weekend for the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, one topic on the agenda is the state of the undergraduate major in English and foreign languages. A report prepared jointly by the MLA and the Teagle Foundation outlines a series of goals for these undergraduate programs — at least one of which the report calls “radical.” That stance is that all English majors should have the language skills to study literature in another language — and that foreign language majors be able to study literature in English. Other key emphases of the report — which focuses on themes, not specific course assignments — are not likely to find much opposition among the MLA rank and file. For example, the report stresses the importance of literature and of coherence as students in the major move from course to course. . . . Read the rest here: http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/23/teagle.