Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)

Faculty Training

Seminar

The WAC Seminar is held each semester. Department Chairs and College Deans nominate faculty each semester for the following semester’s seminar. Each WAC seminar:

• Is approximately 8 weeks long
• Meets every week for 2 hours
• Provides a book on teaching writing in the various disciplines, which is used in the seminar
• Engages faculty in rethinking and redesigning their current course writing materials
• Offers a finals week get-together, where faculty report on any changes or uses of materials in their courses

Finally, Faculty are asked to informally report to the Special Assistant to the Provost for Writing Across the Curriculum during the semester after they complete their WAC seminar. This follow-up reporting is a way to find out how the changes in their pedagogy and writing component worked out. This can be done by email or face to face.

*All dates are on a Thursday. Lunch is provided.

Faculty Nominations

If you are a chair of a department or dean of a college and you wish to nominate a faculty member whom you think would be interested in and benefit from the WAC seminar, you may email Asao B. Inoue with the name, department, and email of the faculty member. In most cases, good nominees fit the following criteria:

• The faculty is interested in learning about how to use writing assignments in courses to help students learn.
• The faculty may have a history of using writing in various ways in his/her courses.
• The faculty has expressed some interest in learning about new ways of using writing in his/her courses.
• The faculty teaches GE, W, or some other course that requires writing to be assigned to students.