For this blog post, I want you to think about the class English 101 as a whole: as a program with 80 sections of a required class taught per year.

What do you think English 101 is to Western as an institution? What is the English 101 program to the students and faculty as a community? What freight does it carry within our local institutional context? What might be different between the role English 101 is meant to serve from the one it really does?

Obviously, feel free to speculate or muse over things you don’t know yet. Maybe cite Crowley if it’s useful.