WAC Training Seminars 

Peridoically, WAC offers a Faculty Training Seminar Series in support of innovation and instructional improvement in general education. Eligible participants are graduate assistants, adjuncts, instructors, or tenure-track faculty who teach or plan to teach a WAC-designated course within six months of participating in the seminar. Interested faculty should review the criteria for College Writing II Replacement Courses and 2000-4000 level Writing Across the Curriculum courses before the seminar.

Faculty and GTAs need to attend all meetings and/or complete all the requirements of the seminar in order to receive the stipend and participation credit. (Note: At this time, there is not a stipend for GTAs who are required to participate as part of their teaching assignment.)

Previous Seminar topics have included Designing Writing Assignments ,  Responding to and Grading Student Writing , and Presentations of a Revised Assignment .

Please sign up as early as possible as we can only accommodate a limited number of participants. 

As you may know, FAU formalized its Writing Across Curriculum program in spring 2007. At that time, the Faculty Senate approved a policy that beginning spring 2008, all faculty (including adjuncts and instructors) who teach WAC designated courses “may do so without training, but only for a single semester.”  Those faculty members must participate in a WAC seminar before teaching another WAC course.

Faculty must receive WAC training within one semester of teaching their first WAC course. Thus, if instructors are currently teaching a WAC course without training, they will not be able to teach a WAC course again until they participate in a WAC seminar. 

After attending the six-hour WAC training seminar (all days of one of the workshop sessions), tenure line faculty will receive a $400 stipend.  Likewise, instructors will receive a $125 stipend, and adjuncts will receive a $100 stipend. GTAs must participate in this training as part of their teaching assignment.

 

Contact Prof. Sipai Klein (WAC Director) orJulianne Zvolensky(WAC Assistant Director) with any questions about the seminar.