While most students have been taught to analyze texts from a young age, few have developed a similar skill set for working with images. Teaching students to be critical consumers of visual culture provides them with an essential skill set for navigating the increasingly image-saturated world in which they live. Visual Literacy in the Classroom: Trout Support for Teaching with Imagesįacilitator: Heather Flaherty, Curator of Education How can we help international and multilingual students grow as writers? What is important to know about second language learning that would help us recognize the strengths and challenges that multilingual writers bring to their writing? This interactive workshop will orient faculty to what we know about how second language writing develops, and offer opportunity for dialogue about the multilingual and international writers whom we encounter in our classrooms. Working with Multilingual Writers (Part I)įacilitator: John Katunich, Associate Director of the Writing Program You’ll have the opportunity to think creatively about how you, your first-year students, or your courses may connect to sustainability. Find out what’s new, innovative and on the horizon. This interactive Q & A session will allow you to better understand our award-winning efforts to incorporate sustainability into Dickinson’s academic curriculum, operations, student life and co-curricular happenings. Find out what sustainability means at Dickinson, the basics of identifying sustainability courses across the curriculum, understanding our key living laboratory programs like The Handlebar, The Hive and Free xChange and learn about our path to carbon neutrality for 2020 (this year). Whether your first-year seminar connects to sustainability or not (we bet it could), FYS faculty play an important role in advising and mentoring students in opportunities for learning and experiences that support Dickinson’s institutional commitments. What First Years Need to Know about Sustainability Dickinson!įacilitator: Lindsey Lyons, Assistant Director of the Center for Sustainability Education
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