Program Goals

Writing Instruction for Students:

• Offer a theoretically informed and coherent introductory writing curriculum across multiple sections of program courses;
• Assure an appropriate degree of consistency in course work requirements across multiple sections of program courses.

Professional Development for Instructors:

• Provide theoretically and experientially informed guidance to program instructors;
• Model theoretically sound and experientially proven pedagogical approaches;
• Provide opportunities to participate in collective development of program-wide curricular goals, means, and outcomes for first-year composition courses;
• Provide opportunities to collaboratively develop new pedagogical approaches and materials within the constraints of collectively developed program-wide curricular goals, means, and outcomes;
• Recognize and acknowledge good teaching.

Development of Composition Research and Theory

• Support classroom-based teacher research theorizing and encourage dissemination of outcomes to local and national audiences;
• Conduct program-based curriculum inquiry and report outcomes to local and national audiences.
  

Document developed by Shirley Rose, Director of Composition; August 2003; Revised May 2004