Writing Across the Curriculum
In the summer of 2017, the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program launched at CSUF. In 2017-18, Faculty Fellow Dr. Leslie Bruce, who heads the program, listened to people from across campus to discover how a WAC program might support CSUF’s faculty and students. Combining the insights from those conversations with the best practices articulated in the
Statement of WAC Principles and Practices
, she began building a sustainable, supportive writing infrastructure for CSUF’s campus community.
Facilitated by a WAC Advisory Board representing CSUF’s eight Colleges, the WAC program strives to improve student writing and learning, to support faculty efforts to teach with writing, and to create a campus culture that values the ways writing can enhance learning.
In its first three years, the WAC Program has
- Created 10 different workshops that enable faculty to increase student learning with meaningful writing activities,
- Offered a WAC Certificate that helps faculty enrich their teaching with WAC,
- Supported thesis, dissertation, and project writers with “Thesis Retreats at Pollak Library,”
- Consulted with faculty and departments that want to use writing to improve students’ learning, and
- Hosted two guest speakers, Dr. Linda Adler-Kassner (UC Santa Barbara’s Faculty Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning) and Dr. Dan Melzer (UC Davis's Associate Director of First-Year Composition).
