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| Week | Topic | Tuesday | Thursday |
| 1 | Introduction | 8/25: Course goals; class participants’ expectations; class projects and policies | 8/27: Developing a
working definition of Writing Program Administration
Readings: Portland Resolution, W. Bishop, Hult |
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Professionalizing Writing Program Administration and Investigating Professionals | 9/1: Issues of Professionalism
Read: Bledstein, Larson, Abbott
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9/3: Profesionalism
and the "New Abolitionism" Read Crowley and Bamberg;
Research Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Writing Program Administration |
| 3 | Subject Position of WPAs | 9/8: Early and Conventional
Models of Writing Program Administrators
Read: Olson and Moxley, White "Use Itof Lose It," CCCC workshop reports from 1950 and 1951 |
9/10: Feminist Writing
Program Administrators:
Read: Barr-Ebest "Gender Differences," Dickson, Miller |
| 4 | Subject Position of WPAs | 9/15: Collaborative
Writing Program Administration : Part I
Read: Cambridge and McClelland "Icon to Partner," Gunner "Decentering" |
9/17: Class Guest:
Joseph Janangelo
Read: Janangelo "Somewhere Between" and "Theorizing Difference" |
| 5 | WPA as Researcher | 9/22: Documentation
Strategies and Records Management
Read: Smith Progress reports on projects |
9/24: Intellectual
Control of Writing Program Archives and Archival Research on Writing Program
Administration
Read: Mirtz, Rose, L'eplattenier |
| 6 | WPA as Researcher | 9/29 Read:
Anson and Brown, Peeples, Weiser
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10/1: Collaborative
WPA Administration
Read: Spring 1998 issues of WPA |
| 7 | WPA and Institutional Geographies, Part 1 | 10/6: Guest Instructor:
Professor Irwin Weiser, Director of Composition, Purdue:
Writing Across the Curriculum |
10/8: Guest Instructor:
Professor Tony Silva, Director of ESL Writing, Purdue:
Issues in Administration of ESL Writing Programs |
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Researching Writing Program Administration | 10/13: October Break | 10/15: Special Interest
Topics
Class presentations |
| 9 | Writing Center Administration | 10/20: Guest Instructor: Professor Muriel Harris, Director of the Writing Lab at Purdue | 10/22: Guest instructor: Professor Muriel Harris, Director of the Writing Lab at Purdue |
| 10 | WPA as Program Evaluator | 10/27: WPA as Curriculum
Researcher/Evaluator
Read: McClintock "Administtrators as Applied Theorists" White "Rhetorical Problem" (J&H) |
10/29: WPA as Teacher
Educator/Evaluator
Read: Hansen "Face to Face" Guest Instructor: William Hart-Davidson on participatory research design for writing faculty development (dissertation) |
| 11 | WPA as Paralegal | 11/3: Privacy Laws,
Disabilities Act, Equal Employment Opportunities-Affirmative Action
Situated Performance Activity on Gender-based Harassment |
11/5: Guest Instructor: Professor James Porter on Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Human Subjects Research Issues in Program Research |
| 12 | Evaluating Writing Program Administrators | 11/10: Writing Program
Administration:
Teaching? Research? or Service? Read: MLA "Making Faculty Work Visible"; Hult "Scholarship of Administration"; Roen "Writing Administrations as Scholarship" Karen Bishop's class presentation on research in writing program archives |
11/12: WPA and Institutional
Geographies, Part 2
Read: Little and Rose "A Home" Lisa McGrady's class presentation: situated performance activity; Class exercise on analyzing WPA job descriptions |
| 13 | WPAs’ and composition studies as a profession | 11/17: WPA: Management
or Labor?
Karen Bishop's class presentation on distance education |
11/19: Guest Instructor: Professor Patricia Harkin, Purdue: Professional Life After Writing Program Administration |
| 14 | Professional Preparation of Writing Program Administrators | 11/24: Credentialing Writing Program Administrators | 11/26:Thanksgiving
Break
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| 15 | Professional Preparation cont. | 12/1: Professionalization
of Writing Program Administration Revisited:
Gere "Long Revolution," Trimbur "Writing Instruction," Gunner "Our Crowd(ing)"; WPA Conference Proposal Workshop |
12/3: Guest WPA Researcher: Sally Barr Regan Ebest |
| 16 | Representing Writing Program Administration | 12/8: Class
presentations
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12/10: Last Day of Class. Major Project Due. No work accepted for evaluation for course grade after 12/17. |
| Date of this version: November 6, 1998 | |||