Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Teaching and Learning the Humanities in Higher Education -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The discipline today -- In crisis? -- From ancient pedagogy . . . -- . . . To the modern academy -- Intrinsic justification -- 2 What is good teaching? -- 'Teaching' and 'good teaching' -- An approach to teaching close reading: textual analysis and interpretation -- Postscript -- 3 Teaching literary theory and teaching writing -- 'Positioning' literary theory -- Approaching the teaching of theory and criticism -- Teaching theory and criticism -- Approaches to teaching academic writing -- Academic literacies -- Writing pedagogy -- Postscript -- 4 Planning for teaching: curriculum and course design -- 'Modelling' curriculum design -- The curriculum -- Curriculum aims -- Subject benchmarking -- Course design issues -- Progression -- Models of curriculum design revisited -- Postscript -- 5 Methods of teaching -- 'Good teaching' revisited -- Teaching beginning students: socio-cultural pedagogic principles -- Working methods: methods that work -- Electronic teaching methods -- Postscript -- 6 Student assessment -- Transparent assessment criteria and standards -- Designing an assessment regime -- Feedback and learning -- Various forms of assessment -- Postscript -- 7 Evaluating teaching -- future trends -- Evaluating courses and teaching -- Trends -- Bibliography -- Index.