[FreakLegion]

You're right -- most freshman composition programs simply aren't very good. There's a distressing amount of politicking going on behind the scenes there. I actually used to sneak interesting material in by lying to the department about what I was teaching. But even then, the fact that students enrolled because it was a requirement, and not because of what I was teaching, made it difficult to find material with a sufficiently broad appeal. You have to be a really good teacher, and in some ways a really bad employee, to teach composition well.