Announcements
1. Please join us in for tea, cookies, and conversation during Friday afternoon "Tea Topic" discussions of issues in writing across the curriculum at 2:30-3:30ish p.m. in 217 Boucke Building (handouts from past discussions).
Feb. 8 |
"Ideas for Using ANGEL Discussion Forums" |
Feb. 22 |
"Strategies for Teaching Writing-Focused Courses to Generation NeXt" |
March 28 |
"Making Writing Matter: Possibilities for Public Writing and Civic Engagement Projects in Your Course" |
April 11 |
"Facing Facebook: Finding Teaching Opportunities in a Student Obsession" |
2. "Writing across Your Curriculum: Planning Successful 'W' Courses" will be offered by Dr. Jessica O'Hara and Dr. Neill Johnson through a collaboration between the CEW and SITE 3:00-4:30 p.m. on Monday, March 3, 2008, in 315 Rider II Building. Register.
3. "Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in Classrooms across the Curriculum," a seminar in four half-day sessions over two weeks, will be offered in 2008 by Dr. Jessica O'Hara and Dr. Jon Olson through a collaboration between the CEW and HRDC 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in 319 Rider I Building on the following dates: Wednesday, May 28; Friday, May 30; Wednesday, June 4; Friday, June 6. Register.
4. "Introduction to Writing across the Curriculum" will be offered by Dr. Jessica O'Hara and Dr. Jon Olson through a collaboration between the CEW and HRDC 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Friday, August 15, 2008, in 319 Rider I Building. Register.
WAC Facts
The WAC Program offers one-to-one consultations, group discussions, workshops, and seminars for faculty across the disciplines who teach writing-intensive "W" courses or who integrate writing into regular classes as a way of helping students learn course content actively.
As of 16 July 2004, the total number of active W courses at PSU is 336, and the number of W courses created within the last five years is 93.
The first class of students for whom a W course was required graduated in Spring 1994.
In addition to taking a semester-long W course in the major, PSU students are required to take two other semester-long writing courses: English 015 or 030 and one of the four English 202 WAC options. Students ideally take the W course after having benefited from the two English courses; in reality, however, many students save English 202 for the last semester of their senior year.
Faculty from across the university and Undergraduate Peer Tutors of Writing participate in a CEW workshop.
