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Articulating Foundations Written Communication and Writing Intensives in UH General Education

Tuesday, April 9, 2024
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Online Event

General education can be an effective tool to ensure that students build useful skills across a college curriculum. The construction of these skills, however, requires collaboration between educators at different pedagogical steps. At UH, learning how to effectively write is institutionalized in our FW and WI requirements. FW courses are taught in a non-discipline specific manner and are focused on introducing notions of information literacy, strategic reading and writing, and variable writing styles. How these skills translate and are strategically built upon and elaborated in WI courses is often unclear, and instructors often have different expectations of what students already know. This panel seeks to address this lack of clarity to produce better articulation between FW and WI General Education requirements by highlighting what skills are the most important to teach at the FW level, what skills WI instructors find the most challenging to teach, and what instructors at each of these levels wish the others knew.


Presented by

Priscilla Faucette
Director of the English Language Institute, Second Language Studies

Georganne Nordstrom
Director of the UHM Writing Center, English

Thomas Shea
Associate Professor, Earth Sciences

Justin Walguarnery
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences

Sarah Allen
Associate Professor, English—Moderator

Seth Quintus
Associate Professor, Anthropology—Moderator


This event is sponsored by the Foundations Board, Writing Focus Board, General Education Office, and the OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE).