Kathryn:
I didn't see mention of class-size restrictions in your W courses. Traditional
WI course structures limit class size in order to facilitate the teaching of
writing and revision. It was this factor that killed off the idea in
Engineering at U of Toronto. Are your numbers restricted? If not, how do/will
the faculty cope?
Rob Irish
Quoting Kathryn Alexander <[log in to unmask]>:
> At 01:14 PM 5/19/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>
> Hello all - as you might know from Wendy Strachan and my presentation
> at INKSHED - SFU has now passed in Senate as of last monday the "W"
> requirement for writing-intensive learning across the entire undergraduate
> curriculum.
>
> I can pass along our web-site for the Centre for Writing Intensive
> Learning (CWIL) and links to faculty resources that have a list of
> pilot courses and some assignments and syllabi.
>
> These are the criteria that new "W" courses will be expected to integrate
> into their existing curricula and they define what SFU means by a "W"
> course. I have posted them below.
>
> I have also provided a link to the Centre for Writing Intensive Learning
> web-site where you can find these guidelines
>
> http://www.sfu.ca/cwil/facrespg/wguidelines.html
>
> and also discipline specific resources that have been developed in pilot
> courses since the FALL 2002 semester.
>
> http://www.sfu.ca/cwil/facrespg/wil_courses.html Here you can look at
> syllabi and some assignments from pilot courses that have already begun to
> integrate w criteria.
>
> The general rule of thumb will be that as of Sept. 2006 new students
> will be required to take 6 credits ( 2 courses) of w courses in
> total, one at lower division and one at upper division.
>
> This is a work in progress ( as is the web-site) - but after two years of
> really hard work - the criteria and the infrastructure is in place. Let
> the games begin!
>
> cheers
>
> kathryn
>
>
> >I'm putting together a workshop on the state of WAC and I want to update
> >myself on what other people are doing. I'm especially interested in
> >which universities use a writing-intensive course model. I'd be even
> >more grateful for specific resources such as the criteria used for WI
> >courses, how many of them must be taken, how this is enforced -- the
> >logistical nitty gritty.
> >
> >If everyone is willing, I'd suggest replying to the list rather than to
> >me personally -- there have been a number of such discussions that
> >started on CASLL and then moved off-list, and I for one would have liked
> >to follow the conversation; I'm sure many others will be interested
> >too. Nice break from viagra ads.
> >
> >Thanks, all!
> >
> >Doug
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> "A Writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for
> other people." Thomas Mann
> _________________________________________
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> Kathryn Alexander, Ph.D.,
> Centre for Writing Intensive Learning (CWIL),
> Simon Fraser University,
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