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October 27, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Karla Kitalong
As the Director of Writing Programs, the course I’ll be working with is ENC1102, and the plan for the Conference will be to examine how common readings related to the environment might best be integrated with course objectives and assessment mechanisms/criteria. The Council of Writing Program Administrators has published a set of outcomes for first-year composition; these will be consulted as a way to help shape UCF’s first-year writing curriculum. It is my intent, also, to begin to review some of the environmentally themed first-year writing textbooks, to assess their applicability to this project.
In the spring, we will experiment with the ENC1102 curriculum by asking ENC1102 teachers to voluntarily include a novel, Saints at the River by Ron Rush. Using an environmental theme, the book displays how different stakeholders in a public argument employ the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, and logos. The author will visit campus in February.
October 29, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Jane Compson
I’m in the philosophy department, and teach a course on Philosophy, Religion and the Environment. The course already ties in with many of the core commitment themes – it exposes students to a variety of perspectives, and encourages them to consider how their values and conduct have impact on environmental and social well-being. I’d like to use the FCTL workshop time to help me revisit and redesign a module in this course. The module deals with environmental optimism versus environmental pessimism. I’d like to use the issue of climate change to showcase these differences of opinion. Responses to climate change vary from denial (issues of information fluency!?) to misanthropic pessimism. I would like to expose students to some of these varying perspectives, and explore strategies for evaluating them. What does it mean for a student to be an ‘environmentally responsible’ citizen in relation to climate change?