Date/Time
Date(s) - November 4, 2024 - November 7, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program at CSU is once again inviting faculty to explore how writing can enhance student engagement, understanding and success across all disciplines.
This year’s program, coordinated by English Instructor Annie Halseth, addresses issues related to generative AI, teaching for transfer, working with graduate students, using writing to learn at minority serving institutions and the experiences of disciplinary faculty who work with writing specialists to use writing in their courses.
Workshop schedule:
AI As Object of Inquiry
Monday, Nov. 4 | 3-4 p.m.
Presenter: Christopher Basgier, Auburn University
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99748331928
Description: In this session, Dr. Christopher Basgier (Director of University Writing at Auburn University) will discuss how to turn students’ attention away from generative AI as a tool for composing and toward generative AI as an object of inquiry. By inquiring into the nature of generative AI and its outputs, faculty can deepen students’ understanding of disciplinary content and facilitate critical AI literacy.
Making Meaning of Your (Emerging) Minority-Serving Institutional Designation through Write to Learn Assignments
Tuesday, Nov. 5 | 2-3 p.m.
Presenter: Caleb González, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98764545195
Description: In this session, Dr. Caleb González will discuss the meaning of culturally sustaining pedagogical (CSP) frameworks in the design of write to learn assignments. CSP is defined as “centering and sustaining the cultural and linguistic identities, experiences, and ways of knowing of students” (Django Paris and H. Samy Alim, 2019). By deepening our knowledge of what it means to lean into students’ funds of knowledge, this session examines what it means to move beyond solely celebrating increased enrollments of minoritized student populations and step into spaces of culturally sustaining write-to-learn design.
Indispensable Impact: Graduate Students and Writing Across the Curriculum
Wednesday, Nov. 6 | 1-3 p.m.
Presenter: Kelly Bradbury, CSU; Georgia Plotkin, CSU; Brendan Davidson, CSU; Caitlin Kahihikolo, CSU
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/96433518283
Description: In this session, Dr. Kelly Bradbury (Director of CSU’s gtPathways Writing Integration Initiative) and graduate students from across disciplines will explore the ways in which graduate students at CSU help to foster learning, critical thinking, and communication across the curriculum as Graduate Teaching Assistants and Writing Center tutors. They will share, as well, the ways in which their WAC work has shaped their own writing skills and academic identities and the challenges they have faced as practitioners of WAC.
Teaching for Transfer Across the Curriculum
Thursday, Nov. 7 | 12-1 p.m.
Presenter: Kara Taczak, University of Central Florida
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98559005804
Description: Research in the transfer of knowledge suggests that we can successfully teach students to transfer. However, for transfer to occur several conditions for learning must be met. These include students’ development of a vocabulary by which to articulate their knowledge, an intentional focus on reflection as part of the curriculum, and a pedagogical approach that explicitly situates transfer as the goal of learning. In this session, Dr. Kara Taczak (Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida), explores the ways in which we can make teaching for transfer a deliberate pedagogical practice.
WAC Course Development Grants at CSU: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, Nov. 7 | 3-4 p.m.
Presenter: Annie Halseth, CSU; Robert Affeldt, CSU; Pinar Ozbeck, CSU; Elisa Cundiff, CSU; Annie Krieg, CSU; Allison Bielak, CSU; Mikę Palmquist, CSU
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98412706838
Description: Writing specialists Annie Halseth and Robert Affeldt will share their experiences supporting four recipients of the WAC Course Development Grant Program at CSU. This panel will explore strategies for using writing as a tool for critical thinking and deeper engagement with discipline-specific content, the challenges faculty encountered, and the collaborative efforts to enhance student learning through writing.
For more information about WAC Week and to learn more about Writing Across the Curriculum before the events, visit writingcenter.colostate.edu/wac or contact Halseth at annie.halseth@colostate.edu with questions.