Irwin Weiser

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Syllabus:  English 680W:  Seminar in Writing Across the Curriculum

Fall 2001

 

Abbreviations:   LE:  Landmark Essays; 

                        WNM: WAC for the New Millenium

                        CP: Course Pack, available at Copymat

 

August 22:        Course Introduction

Discussion of Nelson’s "This Was an Easy Assignment"; tour of WAC Clearinghouse: <http://aw.colostate.edu/resource_list.htm>

           

August 29:        What is WAC and Where Did it Come From?

LE: Preface, Introduction, Section 1 and Section 2, Chapters 3-5;

CP: McLeod "Writing Across the Curriculum: An Introduction"; Maimon, "WAC, Past, Present and Future"; McLeod and Maimon, "Clearing the Air: WAC Myths and Realities"

 

Sept. 5:            What (are) Disciplines? Part 1

LE: Section 3 Chapter 7; CP: Lenoir, from "The Discipline of Nature and the Nature of Disciplines"; Russell, from "Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds"; Bazerman, "The Interpretation of Disciplinary Writing" and "Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies of Disciplinary Language"

 

Sept. 12:          What (are) Disciplines? Part 2

LE: Section 4; CP: Klein, "Blurring, Cracking, and Crossing"; Fish "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One"

 

Sept. 19:          Writing in the Curriculum:

LE: Section 3, Chapters 8-9; CP: Anderson, et al., "Cross-Curricular Underlife"; Bartholomae, "Inventing the University"; Bizzell, "College Composition: Initiation into the Academic Discourse Community"; Elbow, "Reflections"

 

Sept. 26:          Project, Conference and Course Pack II Planning Discussions

 

Oct. 3:              WAC in the Writing Center and On-line:

                        CP: Kuriloff, "Writing Centers as WAC Centers"; Pemberton, "Rethinking the WAC/Writing Center Connection"; Palmquist et al.: "Communication Across the Curriculum and Institutional Culture"; Clark, "Creating a Virtual Space"; Hawisher and Pemberton, "Writing Across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks"

                       


 

Oct. 10:            Non-native Speakers of English Writing Across the Curriculum:

CP: Zamel, "Strangers in Academia"; Johns, "Teaching Classroom and Authentic Genres"; Spack, "Initiating ESL Students Into the Academic Community: How Far Should We Go?"; Leki, "Coping Strategies of ESL Students in Writing Tasks Across the Curriculum"

Project Proposals Due

 

Oct. 17:            Critiques, Cautions, and Assessment:

                        CP: Peritz, "When Learning is Not Enough"; Farris, "Giving Religion"; Yancey and Huot, "Assumptions About Assessing WAC Programs"; Kinkead, "Documenting Excellence in Teaching and Learning in WAC Programs"; Selfe, "Contextual Evaluation in WAC Programs"

 

Oct. 24:            WAC and Faculty Development/WAC as Critical Pedagogy/Looking Ahead (and catching up)

            CP: Pitts, Sigsbee, and Speck, "The Vital Role of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs in Faculty Development"; LeCourt, "WAC as Critical Pedagogy: The Third Stage?"; Miraglia and McLeod, "Whither WAC?"

            Conference Proposals Due

 

Oct. 31:            Course Pack II and WNM readings TBD

 

Nov. 7:             Course Pack II and WNM readings TBD

 

Nov. 14:           Course Pack II and WNM readings TBD

 

Nov. 21:           No Class: Thanksgiving

 

Nov.  28:          Conference on Writing across/in/through the Curriculum, sessions 1 & 2

 

Dec. 5:             Conference on Writing across/in/through the Curriculum, session 3 /Course Evaluation

 

Dec. 12:           Projects due in my office by noon