WACC Meeting Minutes

March 10, 2011

In attendance: Scott Ellis, Tom Ferrucci, Steven Corbett, David Pettigrew, Deb Weiss, Sanya Grubacic, Dorothy Vasquez-Levy, Elena Schmidt, Maria Diomontis, and Karen Burke.

1. WAC Director report:
Writing Contest. Division of readings and procedures for assessing and ranking. Announcement of W-course essay contest winners cancelled at the Honors Convocation. Meeting with Selase last week and the issue of how W-courses are and are not filling, including the issue of w-courses in the disciplines. Over 200 empty seats in w-courses for Spring 2010 and Fall 2010 terms.  Number of 217 courses decreasing dramatically; this means number of w-courses needed for majors will need to increase. Strategy we need to take is to encourage our faculty to offer at least one w-course per department per year; and we need to encourage faculty proposing LEP tier 2 courses to offer w-courses as well. Question of the labor-intensive nature of w-course pedagogy.  Ideas and strategies for making w-courses more attractive will need to be seriously discussed.

2. Writing Center Director report:
Numbers of students worked with for Fall, 2010: 487 tutorials, 92 from W-courses. Workshops with 121 students. 608 total student contacts. Highest number of visits: English w-courses 19, Psychology 12, Women's Studies 11. 20 departments had student writers who visited overall.

3. W-Course Proposals:
Taylor, COM 258 Approve with recommendation: 6 approved, 0 disapprove, 1 abstention
Allan, ENG 217 Tabled. (Scott will contact for more clarification before coming to the Committee for vote.)
Resha, SPA 300  6 approved, 0 disapprove, 1 abstention  

Respectfully submitted by Steven Corbett

Motion to UCF to approve the following writing intensive sections:
COM 258 Cinematic Technique - Derek Taylor
SPA 300 Spanish Composition - Resha Cardone