December 7, 2012
During the Fall 2012 semester, the WAC Fellows Program worked with faculty teams from the Departments of Film Studies and Political Science, and the Nano Science Technology Center. As always, the Fellows produced sets of writing-related learning outcomes for their disciplines ansd departments. These outcomes are available here. Over 3 semesters of its existence, the…
November 8, 2012
The latest issue of Faculty Focus, a publication of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, features an article by WAC Director Pavel Zemliansky. This is the third time over the last year and a half that news from the WAC Program appears in Faculty Focus, and we thank FCTL Director Melody Bowdon, Assistant Director…
August 24, 2012
About the author: Andre J. Gesquiere is an Associate Professor at University of Central Florida, where he holds a position in the NanoScience Technology Center, with joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL). His research program is focused on nanomaterials for biophotonics and biosensing, and energy conversion…
May 21, 2012
Soon after the successful inaugural session of the WAC Fellows Program in the spring of 2012, the Writing Across the Curriculum team hosted the summer version of the Fellows Program. This was a very successful 4-day event, run in May, in which 18 faculty members from 4 UCF departments, including one regional campus, created…
April 25, 2012
The first WAC Fellows program has been a huge success! Now, several weeks after the program has ended its first semester, its participants reflect on their experiences and on what they learned while working with the WAC Program. “Our team is very grateful for the opportunity to participate in the WAC Fellows program. In…
April 16, 2012
We are pleased to announce the winners of the first WAC Starter grant program. The winners represent ten departments from seven colleges. The purpose of the program is to foster the development of effective ways to teach writing in the disciplines, through the design of innovative instructional approaches, assignments, and classroom activities. Grants have been…
April 13, 2012
On April 11, 2012, we held the showcase event for the first WAC Fellows Program. During the event, the faculty teams from The College of Nursing and the Departments of Chemistry and History presented the results of their work on the development of writing outcomes and assignments for their programs. The materials developed by the…
March 15, 2012
UCF TV has released a video highlighting the Knights Write Showcase and the teaching of writing across disciplines at UCF. The video showcases the work of the University Writing Center, the WAC Program, and the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. Dr. Dan Murphree of the History Department, a WAC Fellow this semester, is featured in the…
February 29, 2012
The WAC Program now has what we plan to be a regular column in Faculty Focus, a publication by UCF’s Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. Faculty Focus is published quarterly. It contains articles, faculty profiles, teaching tips, and other relevant materials. The theme of this issue is “Student Sucess,” so, in the WAC Column,…
February 22, 2012
We are happy to announce the publication of the second video in our series of interviews about writing with professors of different disciplines at UCF. This installment is a conversation with Dr. Victoria Loerzel, an assistant professor in UCF’s College of Nursing. The interview was conducted and edited by Dan Martin.