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Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Committee
Calendar of Events for Spring 2009
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Weekly Creative Writing Hours
Students, faculty, and staff interested in creative writing can meet to share their work and get some feedback from other writers.
Bedford Campus: Thursdays 1:00 - 2:00, Writing Center, Room AR-201 (starting 2/5; flier)
Lowell Campus: Mondays 12:30 - 1:30, Federal Building, Library, Kerouac Room (starting 2/9; flier)
Faculty Workshop Series: I Assigned a Research Paper – What the Heck Is This?
This three-part workshop series will help you create or improve research paper assignments and assessment criteria. All workshops will be offered on the Lowell campus by MCC “Writing Coaches” Jill Keller, Denise Marchionda and Ellen Nichols. Compensation in the amount of $250 will be paid to faculty who attend all three sessions, develop or revise a research assignment and assessment rubric as a result, and agree to implement and evaluate the impact of that assignment on the quality of student research writing during the Fall 2009 semester.
See the attached flier for more information and an application!
Sponsored by the Improving Students' Writing Project
Wednesday, February 4, 1:00-2:30, Wednesday, March 4, 1:00-2:30, & Wednesday, April 1, 1:00-2:00
Faculty workshop: Writing and Students with Learning Disabilities
This faculty session will address instructors' questions and concerns, exploring ways to respond to the writing of students with Learning Disabilities in courses across the disciplines. Jointly sponsored by WAC & Disability Support Services. (Signing up on the MCC / LENS Professional Development Calendar Webpage ahead of time would be helpful for our planning, but you can also just show up that day.)
Bedford campus: Thursday, February 19th, 2:00-3:00 pm, Bedford TLRC
Faculty workshop: You assigned writing, but you didn’t expect this! How to respond to overly personal, disturbing, or emotionally provocative writing
This faculty workshop will address instructors’ concerns and questions about disturbing student writing, providing strategies for responding to student writers across the disciplines. (Signing up on the MCC / LENS Professional Development Calendar Webpage ahead of time would be helpful for our planning, but you can also just
show up that day.)
Jointly sponsored by WAC & Personal Counseling and Consultation Services.
Bedford campus: Thursday, March 5th, 1:00-2:00 pm, Bedford TLRC
Faculty Workshop: Plagiarism and Safe Assign --Your Student Plagiarized! What do you do? What can you do?
This faculty workshop will explore student plagiarism issues, including discussions of our pedagogical responses to plagiarism and our current detection options, including the new SafeAssign software. (Read an article on the rise in college plagiarism from Educause Review. And/or listen to this brief 4 minute NPR commentary, Plagiarism in College, from an adjunct professor in New York.)
Jointly sponsored by WAC & the Library.
Lowell Campus: Tuesday, March 10th, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, Lowell Campus Library, Kerouac Room
Matter of Fact, MCC's improvisational theatre troupe, presents
"Images from a Racist World" related to the MCC Common Book When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Explore issues in powerful skits that will raise questions and awareness – all based on Julie Otsuka’s When The Emperor Was Divine, the MCC Common Book – including a talkback session with the audience. Open to the whole MCC community. Faculty members interested in bringing their classes can reserve seats in advance by contacting Tom Laughlin at laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu Jointly sponsored by WAC & Matter of Fact Players. (For poster)
Lowell Campus: Monday, March 23rd, 10:30 - 11:20 am, City Building, Upper Cafe
A Celebration of Words in honor of National Poetry Month and Diversity Days
This poetry & creative writing reading is open to the entire MCC community. If you’re interested in doing a reading, please contact Tom Laughlin, ext.3839. (Call for Readers flier ) (Event flier) ( For a Current List of Readers )
Sponsored by WAC, the Multicultural Center, Academic Support, & Student Activities.
Lowell Campus: Monday, March 30th at 12:30 pm, City Building, Lower Café
One World Series presents Erica Harth
Erica Harth was a young girl during World War II when her mother, a social worker, decided to go work and live inside the Manzanar Japanese-American internment camp, one of the ten concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned. Her mother brought young Erica with her, and Erica spent a year attending first grade surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed guard towers in the harsh California desert. She lived alongside Japanese-American families, much like the fictional family in Julie Otsuka’s novel, When the Emperor Was Divine (the MCC Common Book). Erica Harth went on to become a professor of French literature at Brandeis University, where she was Chair of the Romance and Comparative Literature Department, a founding member of the Women’s Studies Program, and is now Professor Emerita of Humanities and Women’s and Gender Studies. In 2001, more than fifty years after this dark chapter in U.S. history, Dr. Harth edited an important volume of essays, Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans, which challenges readers to construct a better future by confronting the past.
Dr. Harth will discuss her personal experiences during World War II and her reflections on lessons for our future.
Jointly sponsored by WAC, the Humanities Division, and the One World Series. (event flier)
Bedford Campus: Monday, April 6th, 12:30–1:45 pm, CC-Café East
WAC Student Writing Contest
For this year’s contest, the essay topic is not a fixed one. The essay need only be one that is written in response to an assignment in a Fall 2008 or Spring 2009 semester course or program at MCC. We encourage interested students to speak with a faculty or staff member about submitting their writing, and we ask faculty and staff members to submit the best pieces of student writing they receive this year, with the student’s permission, of course. Winner receives $100 Prize! …. and the essay will be published in Fall 2009 issue of Writing Across the Curriculum & In the Disciplines: A Journal of Student Writing at Middlesex Community College !
The deadline for contest entries will be April 15th, 2009
Go to the WAC Student Writing Contest page, for further details.
SPECIAL SUMMER EVENT!!!
The Great Japanese and American Pastime on film and in Person:
Kokoyakyu documentary film showing and a Lowell Spinners Game!
“The Great American Pastime on film and in Person” event returns on Sunday, June 20th ! After last summer’s success (with the film American Pastime followed by a Spinners game), the WAC Program, Office of Student Activities, and New England Chapter of the Japanese-American Citizens League bring you the film Kokoyakyu and a Lowell Spinners game!
Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball is a fascinating one-hour documentary about the national phenomenon of the annual Koshien high school baseball tournament in Japan. You want pure sports spectacle? You want the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat?" Forget about Olympic athletics, the American pros, and even Friday-night football in Texas. Take a look at high school baseball in Japan. Since 1915, Japan’s prestigious Koshien Tournament has pitted the best high school baseball teams in the country against each other for the national championship. As shown in Kokoyakyu, the first English-language film to examine the phenomenon, baseball has become a national rite of passage for the country's youth. For thousands of Japanese teens, their families and teachers, as well as millions of spectators, the annual tournament that begins with some 4,000 teams and finishes with 49 teams competing for the national championship at Koshien Stadium in Osaka manages to be both pure baseball — and purely Japanese. This annual tournament is where MLB players like Daisuke Matsuzaka, Ichiro Suzuki, and Hideki Matsui first became famous. (event flier)
After the viewing of the film, participants will travel to a Lowell Spinners minor league baseball game!
NOTES: This is a final event related to MCC’s 2007-2009 Common Book, Julie Otsuka’s novel, When the Emperor Was Divine.
We are asking for a $10 donation to cover the cost of the baseball game.
Please e-mail Tom Laughlin of MCC at laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu or Steve Nishino of NE-JACL at nishino@nejacl.org for baseball game ticket information.
The film is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by MCC’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program, MCC’s Office of Student Life, and the New England Chapter of the Japanese-American Citizens League
Saturday, June 20th, 2:00 pm, MCC’s Lowell Campus, Federal Bldg, Assembly Room
Creative Writing Activities at MCC
For additional Creative Writing Activities at MCC, go to the following:
http://www.middlesex.mass.edu/english/CrWrtgActivities.htm
*The Common Book
As part of WAC activities, each year, a Common Book is recommended for the whole college, selected for literary quality and relevance to many subject areas. Faculty can choose to assign the book to be read independently or teach appropriate elements within a given discipline.
For further information about WAC and our activities, please contact
Tom Laughlin at ext. 3839 or laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu
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