FIU's Writing Across Curriculum (WAC) and The Humanities Edge will host a WAC Symposium on the theme of "Digital Writing Across the Humanities Curriculum."
The Symposium was held via Zoom on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Writing is a common and critical activity across humanities courses. It functions as a means for students to communicate new knowledge as well as a tool for them to learn, think, and reflect. With the rapidly changing technology landscape, the definition of what counts as writing continues to expand. As faculty invested in student success, we have learned to practice pedagogical flexibility, adjusting the ways that we teach with writing in response to the needs and affordances of digital environments. While traditional forms of writing, in both high- and low-stakes modes, still remain valid, digital tools provide avenues for us to rethink how we use writing in the classroom and how writing can help our students engage with larger audiences and real-world problems.
In this call, we invite humanities faculty to share innovative pedagogical approaches that prepare our students not only for success in their disciplines but also in communicating their knowledge effectively in 21st century new media contexts. We look forward to presentation proposals that spotlight the ways in which digital technologies and new media pedagogical approaches can be used to support students’ learning and multimodal meaning-making practices as we teach digital literacy skills in humanities courses.