Classrooms

The third floor of Chambers Hall houses the English department's faculty offices, workroom, library, and one of its classrooms. It also contains the production facility for the campus literary magazine The Shinnery Review, with a Macintosh computer equipped for desktop publishing.

The Administration Building houses most of the English department's classrooms, including its computer lab. The department's premier classroom is Hardin Administration Building room 331, where teachers can project online materials or show videos on a large screen to enhance discussions and lectures.

Computers

The English lab in the Administration 327 contains Macintosh computers networked with the English faculty computers in Chambers Hall. They are equipped for word processing, graphic presentations (for students in Business and Professional Writing), and access to the online catalog of the Abilene library consortium and to the Internet.

In their offices in Chambers Hall, professors can use the Internet to correspond with colleagues around the world and to search distant libraries. Through the campus network, their students can correspond about course work and submit online assignments. Several professors use PowerPoint presentations in their classes, and some give their students opportunity to do PowerPoint presentations as well as conventional research papers.

University facilities

The Margaret and Herman Brown Library gives ACU students access to over 1.6 million volumes (446,000 books and government documents; 1,115,000 microforms; 76,500 other). ACU students also have borrowing privileges at the Hardin-Simmons University library, the McMurry University library, and the Abilene Public Library. Interlibrary loan is available to graduate students and to undergraduates with special projects.

Through ACU's fiber-optic network, all offices and dorm rooms have Internet access. Each dormitory has a computer lab, and network connections are available in many dorm rooms. Special labs are set up for digital media, business, computer science, and other concentrations as well as English.

English majors also benefit from the university's resources in educational media. The Learning Enhancement Center provides tutorial software and tutoring in all ACU courses. Prospective high school teachers take a course in the education department's computer lab, learning to use scanners, CD-ROMs, hypermedia software, and other advanced equipment. The Walter H. Adams Center for Teaching Excellence, in the east wing of the ACU library, supports the production of new media for English courses and hosts special training sessions in its state-of-the-art interactive classroom.