The Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL) is pleased to
announce the publication of a collection of language and gender syllabi, edited
by Elizabeth Hume (Dept. of Linguistics, Ohio State Univ) and Bonnie McElhinny
(Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford Univ.)  The collection includes 27 syllabi for
courses on language and gender taught in an array of departments (linguistics,
anthropology, folklore, English, education, French, German).  The collection
is a partial response to the Linguistic Society of America's mandate to COSWL
to "encourage research on women and language."

Special features of the collection include:

    *syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses
    *ideas for paper topics
    *examples of exam questions
    *instructions for fieldwork exercises in gathering/analyzing
        gender differences in language use
    *bibliographies of work on language and gender
    *comments from instructors about particularly successful
        techniques for teaching implemented in the course

Contributors include:  Niko BESNIER (Anthro, Yale), Janet BING (English,
Old Dominion Univ), Sue BLACKWELL (English, Univ. of Birmingham, UK),
Rebecca BURNS HOFFMAN (English, Univ. of Miami) , Penny ECKERT (IRL),
Suzanne FLEISCHMANN (French, Univ. of California, Berkeley),
Alice FREED (Linguistics, Montclair State College), Rebecca FREEMAN (School
of Education, Univ. of Pennsylvania), Barbara FOX (Linguistics, Univ. of
Colorado), Randy HARRIS (English, Univ. of Waterloo), Shirley HEATH (English/
Linguistics, Stanford), Elizabeth HUME (Linguistics, Ohio State Univ.),
Mary Jane HURST (English, Texas Tech), Deborah KAPCHAN (Folklore Institute,
Indiana Univ-Bloomington), Mimi KLAIMAN (Linguistics, Univ. of Indiana),
Kerstin LANGE (Anthropology), Joseph MALONE (Columbia), Sally
MCCONNELL-GINET (Linguistics/Women's Studies, Cornell Univ.), Bonnie MCELHINNY
(Linguistics, SStanford) Rae MOSES (Linguistics, Northwestern) Mary PARLEE
(Hunter College), Craige ROBERTS (Linguistics, Ohio State Univ.), Bambi
SCHIEFFELIN (Anthro, NYU), Ron SOUTHERLAND (Linguistics, Univ. of Calgary),
Deborah TANNEN (Linguistics, Georgetown Univ.), Lenora TIMM (Linguistics,
Univ. of CA--Davis), Ruth WODAK (Univ. of Vienna), Ana Celia ZENTELLA
(Linguistics, Hunter College).

The syllabi are available (1) in hardcopy format from the LSA, (2) in the
archives of LINGUIST and (3) through anonymous ftp from the linguistics archive
housed at the Univ. of Michigan file-server. Instructions follow for obtaining
copies from each of these sources.

(1) To purchase hard-copy versions, please send a check made out to "Linguistic
Society of America" for $20.00 (includes postage and handling--DC residents add
6% sales tax) to:

    COSWL Language and Gender Syllabus Project
    Linguistic Society of America
    1325 18th Street, NW Suite 211
    Washington DC 20036

(2) On the LINGUIST database, the syllabi are kept in 7 files called:
        lg-gen-0 syl
        lg-gen-1 syl
            and so forth, through lg-gen-6 syl

To retrieve the syllabi, send a message to:
    listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu (if you are on Internet)
    OR
    LISTSERV@TAMVM1 (if you are on BITNET)

The message should consist of a line or lines like the following:
    get <filename> <filetype> linguist

For example,
    get lg-gen-1 syl linguist

*Please note:  It is possible to request all the syllabi at once by
sending one multi-line message consisting of 7 'get' commands; however the
files are large, so don't do this unless you can handle large email messages.

**The listserv will respond only to addresses it recognizes, so be sure
to send the request from the address from which you subscribed to LINGUIST.


(3) To obtain copies through ftp from the Univ. of Michigan file-server you
must be on Internet.  Follow the following procedure:

ftp linguistics.archive.umich.edu (at your system prompt)
login: anonymous
passwd: <type your email address>
cd linguistics
cd handouts
cd syllabi
get L-G.Syllabi.0
get L-G.Syllabi.1
get L-G.Syllabi.2
get L-G.Syllabi.3
get L-G.Syllabi.4
get L-G.Syllabi.5
get L-G.Syllabi.6
quit

*Please note:  These syllabi are lodged on a Unix system.  Unix is case-
sensitive.  If you use capital letters instead of small letters, or small
letters instead of capital letters, it will not recognize your command.  Follow
the above format carefully.

**You may not want to obtain all these files at the same time.  They take
up a considerable amount of diskspace.

***Questions should be directed to 'linguistics-archivists@umich.edu'