Join us for an overview of university-wide expectations for W courses and a discussion of pragmatic strategies for making writing-intensive courses across the disciplines more engaging, effective, and inclusive. All faculty and staff who are teaching any course that involves writing are invited to join us. This orientation is required for all graduate students who intend to teach or assist with a W course or lab.

 

Thursday, August 24, 10am-noon, 2023, Heritage Room, Level 4, Babbidge Library, Storrs Campus

Register for this in-person only session here: https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2810

The next orientations will take place in late December 2023 and early January 2024.

Before attending either the online or in-person session, please watch the following 2 videos:

1. Overview of W Course Basic Expectations: https://kaltura.uconn.edu/media/W+Teaching+Orientation+-+Dec+2022/1_bvmgd3fe

In here I refer to the W Course Guidelines articulated by the University Senate, which you can find here: https://geoc.uconn.edu/writing-competency/

2. UConn students reflect on faculty feedback: https://ritm.initiative.uconn.edu/narratives/

 

Recommended:

For those concerned about how ChatGPT and other AI technologies may affect your W courses, you can access a webinar Tom did this summer for the International Studies Association, which includes details from his summer 2023 W course: “Working with AI in Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines”

You could also check out how what we are doing with AI in Writing Center tutorials could inform how you treat it your courses. If focused just the academic integrity angle, you can get Tom discussed that on an episode of The Full Story (“AI All Around Us”) in May 2023.