Writing Across the Curriculum Committee
Minutes of the April 24, 2007 Meeting
Present: Michele Bonn, Maria Carrig, Rick Matthews, Leonard Schulze, Barbara Short, Mark Snavely, David Steege, Alan Wallace
The committee agreed that the process of reviewing and approving Writing Intensive (WI) course proposals will continue in the coming academic year, whatever the result of the vote on the Heritage curriculum that takes place today. If a new Heritage curriculum is piloted, the new courses will have to go through the process of proposal, review and approval for WI status.
The fall Writing Workshop will take place August 28-29, during the same week as the Heritage workshop.
Three WI course proposals were considered. Classics/Religion 332 and Political Science 210 were approved. Education 201 was approved pending discussion with the instructors to clarify certain parts of the course description.
The WAC/FAQ page will be finalized during the summer, after the Committee has determined answers to some of the questions.
The deadlines for submission and approval of WI course proposals were discussed. The official deadline is the end of October for proposals for the following academic year. Approval of proposals is in November. The absolute deadline for approval is February.
Alan Wallace said that assessment of WAC could begin by sending a questionnaire to Heritage instructors about their experience with WI this year. The committee looked at three questionnaire formats and chose one that could be scanned, and that focused on evaluation of the WI component. Mark Snavely suggested working on question format with people in writing assessment, to make sure we get the information we want. Currently, only Heritage 103 and 104 are WI, so only they will be assessed this year.
The meeting adjourned at 1:00.