Meet CWSP's Fall '02 Faculty Seminar!

 
Name
Department
Course

Using Seminar
to focus on...
Marilee Bresciani
Undergraduate Affairs
PSY 201, Controversial Psychological Issues
mini-research projects where students experience first hand the ethics and challenges of research; enhancing the role of writing and speaking by using them as primary assessment tools for course outcomes
Karen St. Clair
FCTL / Psychology
PSY 201, Controversial Psychological Issues
evaluating and better preparing students for writing and speaking in small and large groups
Mi Gyung Kim
History
HI491Z, Women in European Enlightenment
developing ways to improve students' writing skills without overloading on 50-70 essays every other week
Jonathan Kramer
Music
MUS 200, Understanding Music
encouraging the best work from students; helping them develop as thinkers and communicators; grading frequent writing assignments; evaluating written work better
Monica Leach
Multidisciplinary Studies
MDS 497M, Race and Higher Ed.
in the United States
looking for new ideas and learning styles to enhance approach to teaching
Charles Lytle
Zoology
ZOO 512, Animal Symabiosis
seeking better ways to help students learn to find, understand, and assimilate relevant information, to analyze and interpret complex data, and to communicate more effectively with their peers
photo
coming
soon!
James Mickle
BSIP / Botany
BO 400, Plant Structure and Diversity
incorporating both written and speaking exercises into the course to both enhance student participation and to give practice in giving presentations
Vincent Munoz
Political Science
PS 205, Law and Justice
facilitating more constructive assessments and teaching students to write better by formulating assignments with clear goals and developing grading strategies so students know what is expected of them
Louise Salstad
Foreign Languages and Literature
FLS 301, Survey of Spanish Lit.
through 1700
developing students' abilities to think critically through writing; making connections between the literature studied and their own lives; expressing themselves articulately and accurately in written Spanish; journalling and short papers
Charles Smith
Statistics
ST 371, Intro to Probability and Distribution Theory
web-based forms and how to incorporate written and oral reports into large classroom; making class writing assignments more web-based
John Wall
English
Honors 293E, Love in the Western World
finding new ways to enhance familiar modes of communication using wireless technology while discovering new opportunities for communication made possible by technology
Joy Weeber
Education Leadership
Research and Counselor Education
ECD 620D, The Ecology of Disability,
A Cultural Exploration
developing strategies that will encourage students to engage with the material with a critical framework of analysis; "action project" involving writing assignments and speaking assignments that build toward final project
Nichole Hurley Guthrie
CWSP TA
English Dpt. Graduate Student
 
Marcia Toms
CWSP TA
English Dpt. Graduate Student
 
Emily Wicker
CWSP TA
English Dpt. Graduate Student