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Teaching with Writing in the Disciplines

Badge for Teaching with Writing in the Disciplines micro-credential

In this course, faculty explore best practices in writing pedagogy along with current WAC scholarship with the goal of helping other faculty members develop effective writing assignments specific to their programs. Course topics include designing effective writing assignments, teaching with writing in the age of AI, responding to student writing and teaching students self-editing skills.

Embedded within the entire course is an awareness of our current technological reality. Faculty are invited to explore the ways in which they might use AI tools in their teaching with writing so that AI strengthens rather than replaces student learning and craft course policies that are specific to their course learning goals.

As a result of completing this micro-credential, faculty will be able to:

Describe best practices of teaching with writing in the age of AI

Recognize the literacy, linguistic, technological, and cultural resources students bring to our course

Apply various approaches for responding to and assessing student writing

The six-week course is open to all full-time FIU faculty from any discipline. Faculty are selected for participation through an application process that typically opens during the middle of the Spring semester.

We intentionally keep cohorts small so each participant can receive individual feedback and attention throughout the micro-credential. Our three cohorts so far have been limited to no more than 25 faculty members each, despite a strong interest evidenced by the number of applications we received each year.

Information about applying for an upcoming cohort will be sent out via the WAC mailing list and also from Academic and Student Affairs, Office of Micro-Credentials. Be sure to sign up for the WAC mailing list if you would like to receive information about applying to our micro-credentials.

Writing in the Disciplines

Badge for Writing in the Disciplines micro-credential

Faculty who earn the micro-credential are qualified to integrate the student-facing “Writing in the Disciplines” micro-credential into one of their upcoming courses. This student micro-credential prepares students to write for a variety of public and/or professional audiences. It emphasizes the discipline-specific nature of writing and helps students learn to navigate writing conventions and expectations of their chosen disciplinary areas. It also helps students develop AI literacy so they can critically assess the accuracy, bias, and context of AI-generated text as well as question, evaluate, and interpret AI-generated content. Together, the faculty and student micro-credentials support WAC efforts to cultivate and sustain a robust culture of writing on FIU’s campus.

Testimonials from Faculty

There are several elements of what I've learned in this WAC micro-credential that I have already begun to implement in my current summer course and I've flagged for inclusion in my future classes and my approach to writing in these courses: 1) I've revised a few assignments to give prompts about audience,or make the audience more explicit; 2) I’ve revised two assignments to tweak the writing portion to align with disciplinary writing genres, and made that connection explicit; and I’ve added self-editing prompts to a couple of assignments. [...] I’m really pleased at how this course has given me new ideas for teaching and assignment design.
I am truly enjoying the course. It is VERY well thought out, designed and delivered. The most positive aspect is that WAC team provide very specific strategies, tools, resources, feedback, etc. that we can put into practice immediately while evaluating our current courses. I love the fact that [they] provide practical recommendations with various scenarios in mind.
The WAC micro-credential was really wonderful and I genuinely loved all the material you all provided. I also appreciate all the incredible feedback. I was just talking to my colleague in my department about some of the concepts I’ve learned, and I realized it was quite profound in helping me to rethink writing. I just finished my draft syllabus for the course and have tested out the scaffolding for my summer course and the sequenced activities have been transformative. Even the way I give feedback has significantly improved. Thank you, WAC!!!
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