Courses Taught
T-101: Strategies for Success
in the Wilson College of Textiles
North Carolina State University
Designed to support students through the transition from high school to college, T-101 is the orientation course all first-year textiles students complete as part of their degree program. The goal of the course is to enable students to cultivate the academic skills necessary to succeed at NC State, as well as introduce students to the majors, resources, and co-curricular involvement opportunities available at the Wilson College of Textiles.
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Major projects include a week-long time-management journal, the creation of a campus resources handout, mapping out intended coursework for each semester through sophomore year, researching potential textiles careers, and developing a 4-year co-curricular involvement plan.
ENG-101: Academic Writing
and Research
North Carolina State University
Informed in part by Linton, Madigan, and Johnson’s work “Introducing Students to Disciplinary Genres: The Role of the General Composition Course,” which argues that composition instructors can and should teach students about writing conventions of various disciplines, ENG-101 is a writing-in-the-disciplines (WID) course that introduces students to the kinds of reading and writing they will navigate and compose whilst in college. The goal of the course is to help students develop greater awareness of the variations in writing from discipline to discipline, which students accomplish via examining and implementing the various rhetorical conventions used within humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and applied disciplines.
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Major projects include a literacy and learning narrative, rhetorical analysis of a visual argument, popular adaptation of a scholarly scientific report, annotated bibliography of social sciences research, and a culminating electronic portfolio wherein students adapt two of the abovementioned assignments to work in a digital space.
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Sample student electronic portfolios:
Feel free to access the digital syllabus I created for my Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 sections of ENG-101 here:
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