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USF Department of English faculty, administrators, and the First-Year Composition Program agree that FYC practices should be:
  • guided by research and theory in composition and rhetoric,
  • centered on an outcomes-based pedagogy and coursework that is relative and dynamic to students’ lives,
  • led by best practices in the field and enhanced by a collaboratively-developed curriculum which is vital, progressive and stimulating for our teachers, and
  • influenced by our response to program history; and strengthened by valuable community service. 
The USF First-Year Composition (FYC) Program engages thousands of students each year. There are currently three different models being taught in our program currently: the traditional face-to-face courses, a collaborative model, and an online option for 1102. The cap on class size for ENC 1101 and ENC 1102 is 22 students. This class size offers significant interaction between the instructor and each student as well as between students and their peers during class sessions and also between small and large group combinations. Student-teacher relationships are strengthened further through at least two scheduled one-to-one conferences outlined in our Program.

Our FYC student and teacher population is representative of the diverse population of the USF campus, valuing cultural and ethnic diversity and global understanding and which supports the development of the metropolitan Tampa Bay Region, the State of Florida, the United States and the world. The FYC student population is representative of the diverse population of the USF campus, which supports free inquiry in which men and women of diverse race, ethnicity, veteran status, marital status, socio-economic level, national origin, religious belief, physical ability, sexual orientation, age, class, political ideology and lifestyle participate in, contribute to, and benefit equally, from the academic community.

 

Many of our FYC teachers are from countries other than the U.S.; they vary in age, race, sexual orientation, and background. These teachers strengthen our Program by broadening our cultural landscape and by helping the Program think in new ways about how otherness and difference create new cultural frameworks. We endorse that a diverse campus environment, in which differences are respected and appreciated, promotes more effective teaching, produces greater learning outcomes, and better prepares students for an increasingly diverse workforce and pluralistic society.

FYC at USF prides itself on maintaining a highly collaborative program that is largely run by graduate students and adjuncts who share a deep passion for consistently refining curriculum and pedagogy. FYC at USF also prides itself on its strong web presence, with fyc.usf.edu receiving approximately 5,000 hits a day during the school year. FYC is innovative in the flexible design of its content, its outcome-focused program development, its peer-production website and use of classroom technology and multimodal course development, and its varied means of assessment. Its program is enhanced through the collegiality, community, and teacher development, its multiple forms of program assessment, and its advanced methods of student assessment. Over the past six years, the FYC Program has used a variety of technologies, workshops, and assessment tools collaboratively to develop an innovative writing program that:
  • engages undergraduate students in extensive research,
  • connects teacher feedback with students through an online rubric designed specifically for each writing project,
  • builds rapport among a large faculty through an innovatively-designed teacher mentoring program,
  • creates a sense of community investment where instructors feel they have a stake in the program,
  • develops a "hybrid-community" in which online discussions form and are formed by face-to-face discussions where boundaries between the two are hard to draw and are always changing,
  • uses program-wide surveys to invite undergraduate student feedback, teacher feedback, and teacher orientation evaluations,
  • introduces students in ENC 1101 and ENC 1102 to new genres such as blogs, wikis, and discussion forums,
  • awards graduate students as they develop texts and course materials for ENC 1101 and ENC 1102 during the summer term, and
  • sponsors graduate student attendance to major conferences, and co-sponsors graduate student associations and international conferences.​
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Department of English, 4202 East Fowler Ave, CPR-107, Tampa, FL 33620-5550
 
 
 
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