Month: November 2006

Approved WI Courses for 2007-2008

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Approved WI courses for the 2007-2008 Academic Year

Biol 467: Senior Thesis, Dan Choffnes
Busa 333: Applied Statistics for Economics and Management, Tom Groleau
Cdm 330: Writing For Media, Paul Chilsen
Clas 271/Phil 271: Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey, Richard Heitman
Clas/Reli 332: Roman Religions, Christine Renaud
Crmj 200: Criminal Justice System, Rick Matthews
Educ 201: Educational Psychology and Assessment, Tom Wolff, Dennis Munk, Karen Sconzert
Educ 201: Educational Psychology and Assessment, Roger Bass
Engl 201: American Literature, Pam Smiley
Engl 305: Expository Composition, Valerie Laken
Engl 375: History and Structure of the English Language, Alan Wallace
Envs 400: Senior Seminar in Environmental Science, Tracy Gartner
Exss 301: Tests and Measurements in Exercise and Sport Science, Cynthia Allen
Exss 235: Sport and Exercise Psychology, Gary Williams
Germ 311: Interpreting Written Texts in German, Richard Sperber
Hist 220: Historical Methods, Stephanie Mitchell
Math 200: Linear Algebra, Aaron Trautwein
Math 309: Real Analysis, Mark Snavely
Mlan 311: Interpreting Written Texts in French, Marian Rothstein
Music 116: Musicianship Skills in Context, Dimitri Shapovalav
Neur 250: Research Methods in Neuroscience, Dan Miller
Pols 210: Logic of Political Inquiry, Jerald Mast
Psyc 365: Child Psychopathology, Ingrid Tiegel
Reli 100: Understandings of Religion, Jim Lochtefeld
Reli/Clas 331: Greek Religions, Christine Renaud
Reli/Clas 332: Roman Religions, Christine Renaud
Reli 335: Religion and Society, Tom Simpson
Soci 141: Principles of Sociology, Rick Matthews
Soci 142: Sociology of Social Problems, Rick Matthews
Soci 271: Elite Deviance, Rick Matthews
Soci 499: Senior Seminar, Bill Miller
Socw 240: Human Behavior and Social Environment, Linda Noer
Socw 310: Social Welfare Policy Analysis, Allen Vogt
Span 309: The Spanish Speaking World: Cultural and Intellectual Life, Isabel Rivero-Vila
Span 311: Interpreting Written Texts in Spanish, Erik Kulke
Span 311: Interpreting Written Texts in Spanish, Ed Montanaro
Thtr 290: Play Reading and Analysis, Neil Scharnick
Thtr 455: Directing, Herschel Kruger
Womg 271: I Shop Therefore I Am, Brad Zopf

WI Eligible Faculty, 2006-2007 Workshops

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Arion, Doug
Bonn, Michele
Borden, Matt
Burling, Temple
Carr, Thomas
Carrig, Maria
Chell, Charlotte
Choffnes, Dan
Cyr, Art
DeSmidt, Ben
Duffy, Cathy
DuPriest, Mabel
Gartner, Dave
Gartner, Tracy
Gomez, Beatriz
Groleau, Tom
Gruber, Allison
Haines, Amy
Hauser, Ellen
Hegrenes, Scott
Heitman, Richard
Hodges, Woody
Kulke, Erik
Lochtefeld, Jim
Long, Tom
Maczka, Rom
Mahoney, Mark
Maleske, Bob
Mast, Jerry
Matthews, Rick
Miller, Dan
Mitchell, Stephanie
Montanaro, Ed
Munk, Dennis
Noer, Linda
Owens, Jan
Pfaffle, Pat
Porta, Gaspar
Preston, Jean
Renaud, Chris
Rivera, Julio
Roberg, Jeff
Scharnick, Neil
Schlack, Bob
Schulze, Leonard
Schwartz, Brian
Seymoure, Penney
Shapovalov, Dimitri
Short, Barb
Simpson, Tom
Sleszynski, Neal
Smiley, Pam
Snavely, Mark
Steege, David
Sun, Wenjie
Tiegel, Ingrid
Trautwein, Aaron
Ulrich, Paul
Vogt, Allen
Wallace, Alan
Wolff, Thomas
Zavada, Paul
Zorn, Matt

Minutes of the 11/7/06 Meeting

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Minutes from 11-7-06 Writing Across the Curriculum

Attendance: Barb, Jean, David, Mark, Leonard, Michelle, Alan, Rick

Management of information:

• Academic affairs site for link for proposals: Christine Rener updates
• Changes: deadline 2007-2008 school year, links to criteria
• Email format, syllabi are coming through fine.
• No one computer should effect the files
• Backup: burn to CD
• Letter went to dept. chairs this morning, Jan. 31 is the deadline for filing

Submissions:
• Using criteria of courses in WAC and approval by dept. and workshop attendance
• Looking at criteria of form
• Reviewed as a team three submissions of courses: Math 309 Mark Snavely, English 201 Pam Smiley, Math 200 Aaron Trautwein
• All three approved with some minor questions to address from committee to the individuals.

Updates:

• Some math dept. discussion and supportive attitude from dept.
• Individual instructors coming forward with their proposals.

Problems we might encounter:
• Feedback: what kind and timely for instructor
• Using writing to promote learning of course materials is key
• Formal or informal differences

• In or out of class
• Clarity on form: low stakes/high stakes
• Does is lead to anything?
• Links to syllabi/informal writing
• Connections of formal and informal writings

Future:

• Larger archive to the syllabi: link (Alan’s request)
• Comments on form; only one attachment
• Feedback proceedings
• Next meeting: Nov. 28 10:30-11;30: Proposals, music dept. issues
• Jean: tic list, certifications for graduates, names on blog.

Respectfully submitted,

Barbara J. Short

Minutes of the 10/24/06 Meeting

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October 24, 2006
Writing across the Curriculum Committee Meeting
Rick, Leonard, Jean, Barb, David, Mark, Alan, Michele in attendance

1. Minutes approved
2. Mark: Plan B
• Temple and Mark signed letters

• Send out letters all at once for Heritage: Spring and Fall teachers who didn’t atte4nd the August Workshop
• Exceptions for Heritage in a packet: proposal form to cover the absence
3. Outreach:
• No more proposals: Oct. 27 deadline for people teaching Fall 07
• End of January deadlines for people teaching Spring 08
• Paper copies of form

• Review access to database in blog
• Standard campus login: writing curriculum submission
• Click to view
• Hard copies to review?
• Which copy to save, email: look over before the meeting: form, proposals, etc.
• Start as soon as we can to review

• Process: first couple meet as a committee then send to the subgroup to review: Alan, Jean, Rick and Maria (co-chairs)
4. Proposals: Fall schedule:
• Oct. 31 schedules from registrar to dept. chairs
Nov. 14 to division chairs, Nov. 28 back to the registrar. In spring, advisory is mar. 26, April 16 is registration. Get them in by Mar. 26.
• January 31- Feb. 28 review for Spring 07-08
• Letter to the dept.: think about WI courses Oct. 31
• Caps for WI courses 22 students

• Submit a proposal, blog courses, certification list, emergency certification, list of courses.
• May need a separate list for WI courses for students
• Feb. our committee approval and registrar
5. Records: Should we have an archive list and notes to self: Jean and Mark will organize with blog
6. Recognize excellence:
• planning: Leonard: testimonials of positive experience in workshop for next August
7. Assessment:

• Freshman baseline scoring
• Student surveys from other schools
• Faculty survey
• End of the year assessment: non-heritage
• Oral history: where in the curriculum are they getting exposure, methodologies, subject matter, world views
8. Special questions:

• Leonard: Fine arts question: Distribution requirements don’t have to carry WI: role the fine arts into the curriculum/theory/cultural perception
• SPS: physically impossible for those instructors: money to do the SPS workshop: work with Jim I. on this issue: how many and what world be good timing; safety value to pick up adjuncts.

Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Short

Sample WI Syllabi

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Examples of Writing Intensive Course Syllabi Across the Disciplines

http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/syllabi/267Syllabus.doc

Anthropology: Memoirs of Africa

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/art200.htm
Art: Perception and Notation (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www.arthist.umn.edu/classes/ah3015/syllabus.pdf
Art: Art History: Art of Islam

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/BIO4930.doc
Biology: Functional Histology

http://www.rpi.edu/~croned/LabSyl02.html
Biology: Molecular Biology Laboratory

http://static4.mathcs.wilkes.edu/Gems/WIssues/BA382.htm
Business Administration: Practicing Entrepreneurship – Writing Intensive

http://lamb.cba.hawaii.edu/classes/sy366s06.htm
Business/MIS: ITM Information Systems in Organizations

http://www.wartburg.edu/business/syllabi/BA325.01-02syl-W06.htm
Business/Communications: Business Communication

Business: See also Marketing

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/chem300.htm
Chemistry: Physico-Chemistry Lab (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www2.oakland.edu/chemistry/syllabi/chm300F06.doc
Chemistry: Chemistry and Society

http://www.temple.edu/classics/epicsyl.html
Classics: Classical Epic

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/DRJCLASSICS/syllabi/IH/syllabus.shtm
Classics/Great Ideas: Intellectual Heritage: Sappho through Shakespeare

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/maxwell/teach/384/index.htm
Communications: Contemporary Ethnography of Communication

(See also Business/Communications)

http://www.albany.edu/~goodall/syllabus.html
Computer Science: Social Impact of Computing

http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/fall03/syllabus.html
Computer Science: Professionalism in Computing

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:yQNPNMrOWt0J:economics.missouri.edu/Courses/FS2006/Syllabus/4315-milyo.pdf+writing+intensive+economics+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

Economics: Public Economics

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/bus_teaching.html
Education: Curriculum and Instruction: Teaching Writing in the Elementary School

http://static4.mathcs.wilkes.edu/Gems/WIssues/Syllabus%20ED%20360%20Fall%202001.htm
Education: Methods of Teaching Social Studies for Elementary and Early Childhood

http://people.coe.ilstu.edu/lteckri/phyedsyll/syllabi/KrosneyConstance/EDFS255SU00pdf.pdf
Education: SCHOOL AS A SOCIAL INS

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/edef300.htm
Education: Foundations of American Education (Writing- Intensive)*

http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/page.jsp?id=81&c_type=category&c_id=10
English: Modern Am. Lit. Since 1916

http://www2.smumn.edu/facdev/writing/sampleSyllabi/E346syllabus.pdf
English: Am. Lit. II

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/WID/social_sciences/syllabi/linguistics.htm
English: Analysis of the English Language

http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/005/syllabus.php
English: The Great White North-Canadian Culture

http://www.engl.niu.edu/bpeters/spring00/syl600.html
English: Training in Writing Across the Curriculum

http://www.compact.org/syllabi/syllabus.php?viewsyllabus=435

ETHNIC STUDIES: Land Tenure and use in Hawaii

http://winona.edu/ifo/courseproposals/Health,%20Exercise,%20Rehabilitative%20Sciences%20(HERS)/AY2001-2002/HHP445.htm
Exercise and Sport Science: Medical Aspects of Exercise

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/geography400.htm
Geography: Urban Geography (Writing-Intensive)*

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:xyDFQ-MLeiEJ:www.geo.txstate.edu/directory/faculty/Adams/Adams3309_Fall2005.pdf+writing+intensive+geography+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

Geography: Geography of the United States and Canada

http://www.wooster.edu/geology/Geo260/Geo260.html
Geology: Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/envgeo.doc
Geology: Environmental Geology

http://www.is.wayne.edu/raronson/Syllabi/Syll371-03.htm

Great Ideas: Introduction to Cultural Studies: The “Great Ideas,” Values, and Today’s Political Conflicts

Great Ideas: See also, Classics

http://www.albany.edu/history/history316/his316f2000.html
History: Work and Workers in America

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/social_china1.html

History: Early Modern China

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/social_china2.html
History: Early Modern China

http://academics.smcvt.edu/humanities/hu101_2004.htm
Humanities: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ElKigdSq4sEJ:www.bauer.uh.edu/kacen/documents/MARK4367Fall05Syllabus.doc+university+of+illinois+writing+intensive+course+syllabi&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=21

Marketing: ADVERTISING & PROMOTION MANAGEMENT

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/math400.htm
Mathematics: Advanced Algebra (Writing- Intensive)*

http://www.rowan.edu/mars/depts/math/Syllbabi/UND.COURSES/MaSemWI.html
Mathematics: Mathematics Seminar

http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/3144/3144Syllabus.html

Music: Early Music Literature

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/art_foundations.html
Music: Foundations of Musical Thought

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/MUS4820.doc
Music: (Selected Topics): WORLD MUSIC Writing Intensive Course

http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/005/syllabus.php
Philosophy: Ethics

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/art_philosophy.htm
Philosophy: Philosophy and Cultural Diversity

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:1ajfKqLloAIJ:groups.physics.umn.edu/physed/Research/Example%2520Lecture%2520Material/syllabus.pdf+writing+intensive+physics+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9
Physics: Introductory Physics I with Laboratory

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:G5TXuwcwbK8J:www.missouri.edu/~physwww/admissions/courses_syllabus/WS2005/ConceptPhysics1150_taub.pdf+great+ideas+writing+intensive+course+syllabi&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

Physics: Concepts in Physics

http://www.physics.villanova.edu/courses/course_description.htm
Physics: Great Ideas in Physics, I. and II.

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/Syllabus/pols343.htm
Political Science: Politics of Film

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/GlobalIssuessyllabus2002.doc
Political Science: Global Issues

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/PSYC_3030.doc
Psychology: Principles and Methods of Psychological Investigation

http://www.york.cuny.edu/wac/faculty/syll_assts/syll_psyc330.html
Psychology: WI: Foundations of Research in Psychology

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:LLrGvJvkoDkJ:www.oxford.emory.edu/OXFORD/RESTRICTED/UNIVERSITY/ESyllabi/2006-Fall/gowlerrel348f06.pdf+writing+intensive+religion+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

Religion: THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ITS CONTEXTS Writing Intensive

http://www.uga.edu/religion/syl/4301ag.htm
Religion: Islamic Thought in the Caliphal Age

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ZSPWz5FzjE4J:www.english.uwosh.edu/tbis/SocialWork.pdf+writing+intensive+social+work+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4
Social Work: Introduction to Social Work

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/Soc3020.doc

Sociology: Social Research Methods

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/sociology100.htm
Sociology: Introduction To Sociology (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/Syllabus/sp490.htm
Speech: The Helping Relationship

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/spanish300.htm
Spanish: Spanish Grammar & Composition (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www.theatre.wisc.edu/tnd120/courseDesc.html
Theatre and Drama: INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE AND DRAMATIC LITERATURE

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:7JeEfIHOd6cJ:newton.uor.edu/Departments%26Programs/AsianStudiesDept/asian_theater/syllabi/gupton_syllabus.pdf+writing+intensive+theatre+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9
Theatre: History & Dramatic Literature Part I

http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/page.jsp?id=82&c_type=category&c_id=10

Women’s Studies: Biology and Gender Syllabus

http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/disciplineIndex.jsp
Not a syllabus, but excellent specific examples and guidelines for a whole range of disciplines. Ultimately, UW-Madison

http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
Not a syllabus, but interesting WI bibliographies in major disciplines.

* Sites marked with an asterisk may not be full syllabi, but they contain important descriptions of how writing is integrated into the course.