WAC’s Core Curriculum

Are you new to teaching a WI course or want a refresher on some of the basics? This workshop will focus on writing-intensive course design and help faculty prepare for the semester ahead or the WI enhancements process. Join WAC staff to learn more about the new learning outcomes and begin drafting your WI course materials.

Days and times (held on Zoom):

Wednesday December 11, 10:00am-11:30am. Register here.

Friday January 17, 11:00am-12:30pm. Register here.

Want to help students produce better writing in your course? This workshop will introduce a core approach to teaching writing in the disciplines. Join WAC staff to learn more about the approach and support your students’ writing success.

Day and time (held on Zoom): forthcoming

Registration: forthcoming

This workshop explores strategies for supporting students’ transfer of writing knowledge across writing situations

Day and time (held on Zoom): forthcoming

Registration: forthcoming

Want to develop a more sustainable plan for providing feedback? This workshop will help faculty increase student engagement with and the impact of their feedback. Participants will first learn more about how students revise before exploring some strategies for providing feedback to support more substantive student revision. The workshop will close by offering faculty some time to implement one of the strategies into their courses.

Day and time (on Zoom): Friday January 31, 2025 | 11:00am-12:30pm

Registration: You can sign up here

The WAC Primer is a 4-session series designed to help faculty learn foundational approaches for teaching with writing and align learning tasks with their course’s communications focused learning outcomes, such as the new Writing-intensive course outcomes. The Primer is an excellent opportunity to reflect on your writing course design, meet and exchange ideas with colleagues across campus, and prepare materials for the semester or WI Enhancements process.

The Primer begins with an introduction to teaching with writing across disciplines and writing course design. The following sessions focus on the WI learning outcomes, supporting intentional writing-learning, and preparing course materials. By the end of the Primer, participants will have a scaffolded sequence of writing tasks to support the learning outcomes chosen for their course and a draft of WI course materials.  

This FLC will be facilitated by Tim Lilley, WAC Fellow for Faculty Development

When? Wednesdays at 12:00-1:30pm; January 31 – February 21

Interested in this FLC opportunity? Registration is closed

Have any questions about the FLC? Email us at wac@gmu.edu. 

This spring, WAC is partnering with the College of Virtual and Performing Arts (CVPA) to facilitate a seven-session professional learning program designed to support CVPA faculty members in enhancing their strategies for effective writing instruction. The sessions are structured to provide both theoretical insights and research-informed practices that support the intentional integration of writing throughout majors. 

In each session, faculty members discuss reading materials, engage in self-reflection, and exchange ideas about disciplinary writing and teaching practices. Additionally, faculty develop materials and course designs that create more inclusive and accessible writing courses and curricula.

Interested in a research-driven approach to faculty development? This semester, WAC and CEHD are piloting a new approach to professional development that brings together faculty members’ interests in scholarship and teaching through a research community focused on writing instruction in WI courses. Designed to enhance the sustainability of WI courses and facilitate the exchange of instructional strategies, this community invites faculty members to systematically examine their teaching practices in conversation with colleagues from across the college. Members of the Research Incubator then use their inquiries to pursue publication and presentation opportunities.