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  • Classification Number: 3L
  • Title of Record Series: Department of English
  • Record Group: Faculty
  • Date: April 7, 1981
  • Accession Number: A80-51
  • Sub Group: Departments
  • Source: Marian Balch, Dept. of English, and existing files
  • Restrictions: Some material restricted. Restricted files are not listed in this finding aid. Please contact staff for more information.
  • Volume: 3 unrestricted boxes
  • Cross ref: The merger between the Departments of English Literature and English Composition to form the Department of English
Description:

Records of the Department of English, dating from 1947 when it was formed by the merging of the Department of English Composition and English Literature to 1972; including program brochures, minutes, reports, schedules, exams, directives, questionnaires, reading lists, course descriptions, correspondence, course outlines, syllabi, publications, concerning department meetings, curriculum, The Wellesley Research Handbook; including the minutes of the joint committee to combine the Departments of English Literature and English composition.

Box 1
  • General; Brochures 1943-1950
  • Minutes of the Joint Committees 1937-1947
  • Annual Reports 1948-1954
  • Directives to Majors re General Exams, Schedules and Miscellaneous Policies 1953-1968
  • Exams and Directives for Exams for Senior Majors 1960-1968, includes material on proposed colloquia
  • General Exams 1928-1968
  • Graduate Exams 1937-1969
  • Minutes 1947-1957
  • Minutes 1957-1965
  • Occupations of Ex-Majors, Classes of 1948-1971
Box 2
  • Reading Lists 1955-1957, 1963, 1966, 1967
  • Course Descriptions 1970-1971
  • Course #100 1952-1956; outlines
  • Course #100 1956; Correspondence and Statements re it as a requirement
  • Course #100 1948-1968; general plans, syllabi, exams for instructors
  • Minutes of the Staff of Course #100 1952-1959
  • Courses #101, #102, #103; 1948-1969 (scattered): Exams, syllabi, outlines
  • Courses #103, #104, #106; 1942-1970 (scattered): Exams, outlines, syllabi
Box 3
  • Course #106; 1963-1967: exams, outlines, syllabi
  • Course #106, #107, #108, #201, #203, #205, #206; 1950-1963: exams, outlines, syllabi
  • Courses #207, #208, #209, #211, #214, #221, #222, #225; 1941-1972 (scattered): exams, outlines, syllabi
  • Courses #228, #229, #234, #290, #301, #303, #308, #309; 1949-1970 (scattered): exams outlined, syllabi
  • Courses #310, 311, 321, 323, 324, 326, 330, 345, 350, 360; 1954-1972 (scattered): exams, syllabi, outlines
  • Lectures and Programs
  • The Wellesley Research Handbook for College Students 1950
  • The Wellesley Research Handbook for College Students 1954
  • The Wellesley Research Handbook for College Students 1957
Restricted
  • Restricted: Master's Examinations 1951, 1960; Questionnaires 1951

Created By: Dorothy Brown '09 || Maintained By: Jane Callahan and Ian Graham || Date Created: January 10, 2008 || Last Modified: October 15, 2012