Events

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.