The Brittain Fellowship offers these seminars:
Writing Pedagogy
The Writing Pedagogy Seminar, co-facilitated by a Brittain Fellow Assistant Director, is designed to support postdoctoral faculty teaching in the Writing and Communication Program (WCP), provide faculty with opportunities to examine the theoretical frameworks that inform WCP pedagogical practice, and to offer a space for discussing the issues that support and extend from their teaching in the WCP.
Digital Pedagogy
The Digital Pedagogy Seminar, co-facilitated by a Brittain Fellow Assistant Director, is designed to support postdoctoral faculty teaching multimodal composition and technical/professional communication courses in the WCP. Fellows develop interactional expertise in digital and multimodal composition pedagogy through engagement with scholarship, disciplinary specialists, and veteran practitioners in these and related areas. The seminar also provides a space for discussing issues that support fellows teaching in WCP.
Technical Communication
This fall seminar is required of all new Brittain Fellows teaching LMC 3403. Several members of this seminar often voluntarily extend their discussions in the spring and following year.
Academic Jobs
This fall seminar is required for first-year Brittain Fellows and optional for other Brittain Fellows.
All of the postdoctoral seminars presume active engagement (planning, participating, and leading). In general, each seminar session includes these components:
- Examination of leading-edge practices.
- Face-to-face and online discussion.
- Suggestions of print and online resources.
- Discussion of issues and problems.
- Demonstration and discussion of successful practices.