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Beyond the First Workshop: What Else Can You Do to Help Faculty?
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Soven, Margot – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Follow-up activities are essential to maintaining a writing-across-the-curriculum program. La Salle University created a second stage of program development through new workshops and symposia, collaborative teaching and co-authoring, and opportunities for student involvement. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development
Continuing Funding, Coping with Less.
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Tandy, Keith A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Some funding is necessary to run a writing-across-the-curriculum program, but it is possible to redesign a program and keep it running when outside funding ends. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Financial Support, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Models for Collaborative Research in Writing Across the Curriculum.
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McCarthy, Lucille Parkinson; Walvoord, Barbara E. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Collaborative research in writing-across-the-curriculum is a powerful companion to the usual faculty workshop activities of listening, reading, and discussion. In collaborative research projects, teachers from two or more disciplines work together to understand better their students' thinking and writing. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Cooperation, Higher Education
Translating Enthusiasm into Curricular Change.
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McLeod, Susan H. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
The enthusiasm generated by workshops in writing across the curriculum can be translated into lasting curricular change, particularly in freshman composition, general education courses, and upper-division writing emphasis courses. Committees, central to any change effort, can take any of a variety of forms. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Curriculum, Committees, Curriculum Development
Evaluating Writing Across the Curriculum Programs.
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Fulwiler, Toby – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
The complex and comprehensive nature of writing-across-the-curriculum programs makes them difficult to evaluate. There are some measures of program effectiveness that are easy to collect and others that are worth trying for. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation
Designing Interdisciplinary Courses.
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Newell, William H. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1994
A step-by-step guide to designing interdisciplinary courses is presented. Underlying theoretical rationales and expected educational outcomes are explored, and concrete suggestions and examples are offered. Steps include assembling an interdisciplinary team, selecting a topic, identifying disciplines for inclusion, developing the issues underlying…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Course Content