Teaching with Writing: Five-Day Faculty Seminar

The Center for Writing is now accepting registrations for its annual pre-fall Teaching with Writing seminar for faculty. This is the ninth year for the 5-day seminar which takes place August 23-27, 2010. Available 25 spots fill up quickly so please apply ASAP.

Teaching with Writing: Five-Day Faculty Seminar
The Center for Writing is now accepting registrations for its annual
pre-fall Teaching with Writing seminar for faculty. This is the ninth
year for the seminar and we've learned that it fills quickly.
Teaching with Writing: A five-day faculty seminar: (9:30 AM-12:30 PM
August 23-27, 2010) Cap: 25 (see registration information below)
This seminar presents an opportunity for busy faculty members and
instructors to focus exclusively on strategies for integrating
meaningful writing instruction into their courses. All discussions are
interdisciplinary, lively, and practical and each session involves
participants in hands-on activities using sample writing assignments
and student-written drafts. By week's end, participants will have...
considered discipline- and course-specific modes of writing instruction,
designed at least two practical, low-stakes writing activities for use
in a specific course,
devised (or revised) a lengthier, formal writing assignment for use in
a specific course,
commented on sample drafts in ways that encourage revision,
created (or revised) assignment-specific grading schemes that ensure
fair assessment,
experimented with time-saving techniques,
have a handbook filled with instructional support materials, and
had a great week filled with of dynamic discussions and applicable solutions.
Facilitator: Pamela Flash, Director, Writing Across the Curriculum;
Director, Writing-Enriched Curriculum Project
To date, participants have come from: Accounting; African American
Studies; American Studies, Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Applied
Linguistics; Architecture; Art; Art History; Asian Languages &
Literatures; Biochemistry; Chemical Engineering; Biology; Chemistry;
Communication Disorders; Civil Engineering; Computer Science &
Engineering; Conservation Biology, Design, Housing, & Apparel;
Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Economics; Education; Educational
Psychology; English; English as a Second Language; Epidemiology;
Family Social Science; Finance; Fisheries & Wildlife; Food Science &
Nutrition; Forest Resources; French & Italian; Genetics; Geography;
Global Studies; German, Scandinavian & Dutch; History; History of
Medicine; History of Science & Technology; Horticultural Science;
Journalism; Linguistics; Mathematics; Mechanical Engineering; Music;
Pharmaceutical Care & Health Sciences; Philosophy; Physiology; Plant
Biology; Political Science; Preventive Sciences; Political Science;
Spanish & Portuguese; Social Work; Soil, Water, Cliimate; Surgery;
Theatre & Dance; Veterinary Medicine; Writing Studies; Work & Human
Resource Education.
IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Seats in this seminar are
available to faculty members on a first-come-first-served basis, and
priority is given to faculty members. Non-faculty instructors are
initially put on a waitlist and will be notified if/when their
registrations are approved. The seminar caps at 25. Registered
participants commit to the entire week-long session. Browser
requirement: online registration requires Mozilla Firefox (versus
Microsoft Explorer). Graduate student instructors should be aware of
our annual two-day TA seminar, offered this year on Aug. 31 and Sept.
1 (information forthcoming).
Registration: Online: http://writing.umn.edu/myC4W Campus Mail:
Center for Writing, 10 Nicholson Hall; FAX: 612-626-7580
For descriptive flyer, please see
http://www.writing.umn.edu/prefallseminar/index.html