Teaching Writing at LaGuardia
WELCOME
Our Writing Program fosters a journey of transformation for all student levels. Writing is a foundation for students’ intellectual engagement in the humanities and their participation in a democratic society. To strengthen this foundation, faculty employ inclusive pedagogies that address the diversity of our student population. Our writing courses focus on the integration of reading and writing, using culturally diverse texts to connect critical close reading practices with interpretive claims. Students gain a deeper understanding of the writing process by exploring the relationship between rhetoric and genre, in addition to interrogating digital/multimodal writing practices and contexts. Courses pay significant attention to revision and collaborative student learning.
What’s New?
Resources
Blog Posts
OER Library
A.I. Guidance
What’s New highlights changes to the Writing Program, new resources, and key information for a successful semester.
Course Resources features individual pages for each of our writing courses with specific program information such as: Student Learning Objectives, Pathways Learning Objectives, Intro To Sheets, syllabi, and assignments and activities.
The blog offers a variety of timely resources: course updates, workshops and events offered by the department, perspectives from faculty members, sample assignments, and more.
Browse the OER library for resources, syllabi, and assignments and activities using free, open educational resources (OER).
The A.I. Guidance page is frequently updated with resources to help you navigate this changing landscape.
Spotlight on:
GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Generative Artificial Intelligence, Gen AI, is evolving rapidly and having a huge impact on our writing courses. How are our colleagues, our department, and our discipline addressing these developments?
Assessment
Student Learning Objectives?
Program Learning Objectives?
Pathways Student learning objectives?
Each of our courses has a set of Student Learning Objectives that our Composition Committee, the Department, and the College’s Curriculum have agreed on.
The Program Learning Objectives are a set of objectives that the Writing Program uses to assess growth and development across the Writing Program.
The Pathways Learning Objectives were approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees and make transfer within CUNY colleges easier.
You can learn more about these teaching and learning objectives on the main course page for each course you teach.
This academic year, 2024-2025, the Writing Program will be going through a Periodic Program Review (PPR), a 5-year assessment cycle to evaluate student learning and to set priorities for the program for the next five years.
ACCESSIBILITY and UNIVERSAL DESIGN
Consider accessibility and universal design principles in your course materials. In 2023-2024, the WPAs ran a series of workshops on accessibility and UDL. Access those resources here!
