...Lindsey Row-Heyveld This article explores the advantages of pairing disability studies with the study of rhetoric/composition in the first-year seminar classroom. Examining the ways in which both disability studies and rhetoric interrogate issues of construction, it argues that the two fields...

...Sonja Mayrhofer Abstract This article discusses the development and design of a ten‐week first‐year seminar course, which has been offered in various modalities (online synchronous as well as in person) at the University of Iowa. The course specifically focuses on teaching first‐year university...

...Natalie Grinnell Abstract This essay demonstrates the ways in which one assignment, the creation of a class bestiary, fulfills the course outcomes of a first‐year seminar course introducing students to reading and writing in the humanities. Evolving from the critical field of monster theory...

...Courtney E. Rydel Abstract Students in a first‐year seminar gained a deeper understanding of Arthurian literature and its modern adaptations by studying the 2018 animated series She‐Ra and the Princesses of Power in conversation with Chrétien de Troyes's twelfth‐century story Perceval. She‐Ra...

... instructors of first-­year writing (see, for example, Pytlik and Liggett 2002; Ward and Perry 2002). It is now com- mon that new college writing teaching assistants (TAs) participate in at least one pedagogy seminar designed to guide them through their initial teaching experience and provide...

...Ashlie K. Sponenberg This article examines the applicability of controversial course themes in the first-year writing classroom. It narrates examples of student resistance to readings and discussions that led to intellectual and personal discomfort, and then assesses the benefits (improved critical...

...- year seminar program. I believe my program’s involvement in this project also is helping us to develop a more rhetorically effective institutional iden- tity visvis other partnerships within, and perhaps potentially beyond, the university. The first-year seminar program, still a relatively...

... Cornell could be transported elsewhere. Part 1 of the book — with chapters written by editor  Jonathan Mon- roe (director of the  John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell University), Katherine Gottschalk (director of First Year Writing Seminars), Keith Hjortshoj...

... Quarterly , Early American Literature , the New England Quarterly , To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development , and the Journal of Faculty Development . She is currently studying annotation pedagogy in the context of first-year seminar courses. Danielle Sutton is a PhD candidate...

... working closely with tenure-­track faculty, I think we want to make the teaching of academic writing a university-­wide project. There are several ways to do so: writing-­intensive first-­year seminars, or the sort of fellowships in teaching writing we’ve insti- tuted at Duke, or a series...

... | Limited Visibility, or, Confessions of a Satellite 493 Rohrbach, Augusta | Journal Space 2.0: Teaching through Editing 71 594  Pedagogy Ross,  Jacqueline | see Chan, Clarence Row-­Heyveld, Lindsey | Reading Batman, Writing X-Men­ : Superpowers and Disabilities in the First-­Year Seminar...

... Contributors  193 Dara Rossman Regaignon is director of college writing and assistant profes- sor of English at Pomona College, where she teaches in the interdisciplinary writing-intensive first-year seminar program, as well as courses in literary interpretation, genre theory, and the Victorian novel...

... high school to college-­level writing. Yet at my institution, about a fourth of our students take required “first-­year seminars” — ­courses with sub- stantive writing assignments taught by faculty from across the college — ­before FYW, and even more take them simultaneously. Regardless of our...

... of the standard in-house complaints about the profession sound either weird or irrelevant. In this respect as well it is similar to Penn State, where senior faculty in English teach first-year seminars and every faculty member is required to teach a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule once a year. I realize, from...

... departments: Mariolina Rizzi Sal- vatori at the University of Pittsburgh and Patricia Donahue at Lafayette Col- lege. At our respective institutions, we teach a wide range of courses, from interdisciplinary to first-year writing seminars, from beginning to advanced courses in literature, critical theory...

...- impact practices include first- year seminars, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing intensive courses, collaborative assignments, undergraduate research, diversity/global learning, service learning/community based learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects. See...

.... 2). The nature of contact with staff is also very different, as this student identifies: 430  pedagogy Figure 2. First-year undergraduates — taught contact hours per week S 5: Teaching at university is far less personal, seminar leaders do not know students at all, and know some...

... taught in the University of New Hampshire’s first-­year writing program, and many were staff members of the university’s Connors Writing Center. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 15, Number 2  doi 10.1215/15314200-2845193...

... the heavy reliance on graduate TAs in first-year writing courses. When the Asso- ciation of Departments of English Ad Hoc Committee on Staffing surveyed 123 English departments in 1997, it found that eight out of ten sections taught by TAs were in first-year composition ( Report 1999: 13). In Ph.D...

...: The Pedagogy of the Teacher's Body.” Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 28 : 233 -38. Cooper, M. M. 1990 . “The Answers Are Not in the Back of the Book: Developing Discourse Practices in First-Year English.” In Developing Discourse Practices in Adolescence and Adulthood , ed. R. Beach...