So I am not teaching a course right now, but I like thinking back to when I was teaching a (fairly) traditional American lit survey course. When I first started teaching it, we used a commercial anthology, and I very much enjoyed getting away from that to create the OER anthology for the course alongside my students. But now I think about how cool it would be start with EVERY cohort of lit students with the question of which book to use/buy, which texts to read, and how to organize the work. This is because I really have valued how designing for emergence helps bring students into a conversation about HOW they learn, and how they might continue learning when the architecture of a course is not provided for them (for example, after graduation). I know you would sacrifice content to make time and space for this kind of work (vetting, curating, compiling, selecting, designing), but I guess these things are ALSO a kind of “content,” both in terms of general self-regulated learning but also in terms of disciplinary skill (thinking about canonicity is very important to English majors, but most students aren’t asked to do this as undergrads in truly meaty ways). So yeah– I’d like to take another crack at a lit course!