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UWS Instructors
For graduate students, teaching the UWS is an excellent way to gain experience in the classroom, expand your teaching portfolio, design a course around your interests, and learn more about how to teach students in a supportive enviroment. Instructors choose a course theme, gather course readings, design an assignment sequence, and construct a syllabus that both reflects their interests and engages first year students. The UWS emphasizes the development of practical thinking and writing skills, an approach to writing and revision as process, and close and frequent student-teacher exchange.
Learn more about UWS instruction, access our extensive database of in-class exercises and assignments, gain professionalization advice, and apply to teach a UWS section here!
Writing Intensive Faculty
Writing intensive courses, offered in departments throughout the university, are based in academic disciplines, include writing as an integral part of the course work, and involve frequent writing assignments, opportunities for rewriting, and consultations with the instructor. Writing intensive courses may serve multiple purposes, advancing students toward majors, minors, non-Western and comparative studies, or distribution requirements.
Writing intensive faculty need to apply to have their course be listed and counted as a WI class. With the support of the Davis Grant, the Writing Program is formulating considerable resources to support faculty instruction in Writing Intensive courses. Please return often to see new exercises and assignments you can adapt and adopt for your WI course!