AQAD Self-Study prepared by Comparative Literature
The Academic Quality Assessment and Development
(AQAD) is an external review process for assessing the
core academic functions of each department or program at
the university, including teaching and learning; research,
professional, and creative activity; and
public
service and academic
outreach. The AQAD review provides a rigorous quality assessment,
identifying strengths and targeting areas for growth and
development.
Read the AQAD
Self-Study
(PDF file) prepared by Comparative Literature for the external review of the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Excerpt from the 2006 AQAD Final Report
"Comparative Literature at UMass enjoys an excellent
reputation in its field due to the contributions of its
faculty and alumni. This unit consists of a group of core
faculty, appointed in
Comparative Literature, and a roster of associate faculty
with positions in another program. The program is thus
deeply interlinked with the
other units in the LLC. Comparative Literature is, in addition,
the home for languages, literature and cultures not taught
in other parts
of the LLC, and for some literature areas formerly belonging
to the Slavic unit. Its focus is international and experimental,
with strengths
in areas that fall outside nationally-defined cultural
spheres: translation, the graphic novel (comics), film
studies, children’s
literature, and Philippine cultural studies, for example.
Under the rubric of Comparative
Literature also fall a number of undergraduate courses
with a multinational and often multidisciplinary reach." |
