Events

At the end of the first official year of the ISUComm Foundation Courses, instructors will report their best practices in teaching and assessing the communication portfolio.

All ISUComm workshops are open to instructors in all disciplines. Faculty from Iowa community colleges and Iowa four-year colleges are welcome to attend.

If you have ideas for future workshops or would like to be a presenter, contact Deanna Stumbo at stumbo@iastate.edu.

74 Carver Hall

Instructor panels or individuals will talk about how they used themes such as documentaries, politics, global communication, nutrition, and the arts in teaching their courses. They will describe the benefits and drawbacks of a thematic approach and of working with one or more team partners. You may use this session to determine how you might use a thematic approach during the fall semester.

212 Ross Hall

Learn how to teach your students to determine whether online resources are credible, how to use these sources ethically, and how to cite these sources.

212 Ross Hall.

Lester Faigley, Robert Adger Law and Thomas H. Law Professor in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, will address issues at the point where rhetoric and design intersect.

212 Ross Hall.

Lester Faigley, author of The Brief Penguin Handbook, will consider strategies for teaching writing in disciplines that are more visually oriented.

212 Ross Hall.

Lester Faigley, noted author of in rhetoric and composition, will provide strategies for adapting the teaching of rhetoric to the twenty-first-century classroom with emphasis on visual communication. A reception will follow the presentation.

212 Ross Hall.

Lester Faigley, author of Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond, will conduct a workshop on teaching image-based methods of persuasion.

This past year there has been an informal, grass-roots initiative on the part of a group of faculty who saw the need to discuss certain broad student learning outcomes in a more focused, interdisciplinary way. As a result, five “outcome centers” have formed: communication, ethics, problem-solving/critical thinking, creativity, and visual aesthetics.