Crossing Disciplines While Crossing into the Community: Exploring First-Year Writing Service-Learning Through Health Science Collaboration
Location
Session 4 Presentations - Collaborative Research & Teaching in Higher Education
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
Composition faculty are under increasing pressure to not only define what the First-Year Composition (FYC) experience looks like in the composition classroom, but also how that experience expands into an increasingly career and community-minded education. FYC offers unique opportunities to build spaces of engaged writing instruction, leading to a stronger understanding of how writing relates to universal experiences, not only in the classroom but in the community as well.
This session will build on previous research involving cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration between English and Nursing, resulting in a dynamic FYC course designed for students majoring in the Health Sciences with a Nursing focus. This new approach highlighted what happened when FYC nursing students were asked to create a unique space not only within the discipline-specific composition classroom but in the community, too. The course’s purpose asked students to consider the importance of writing and humanities within the medical field and then to apply this consideration to a community-focused Service-Learning project. The presenter will elaborate on the project as well as provide practical examples, which will help attendees gain insight into collaborative interdisciplinary coursework and community work.
Keywords
FYC, Service-Learning, Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Writing
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Conner, Stephanie B., "Crossing Disciplines While Crossing into the Community: Exploring First-Year Writing Service-Learning Through Health Science Collaboration" (2021). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 69.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2021/2021/69
Crossing Disciplines While Crossing into the Community: Exploring First-Year Writing Service-Learning Through Health Science Collaboration
Session 4 Presentations - Collaborative Research & Teaching in Higher Education
Composition faculty are under increasing pressure to not only define what the First-Year Composition (FYC) experience looks like in the composition classroom, but also how that experience expands into an increasingly career and community-minded education. FYC offers unique opportunities to build spaces of engaged writing instruction, leading to a stronger understanding of how writing relates to universal experiences, not only in the classroom but in the community as well.
This session will build on previous research involving cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration between English and Nursing, resulting in a dynamic FYC course designed for students majoring in the Health Sciences with a Nursing focus. This new approach highlighted what happened when FYC nursing students were asked to create a unique space not only within the discipline-specific composition classroom but in the community, too. The course’s purpose asked students to consider the importance of writing and humanities within the medical field and then to apply this consideration to a community-focused Service-Learning project. The presenter will elaborate on the project as well as provide practical examples, which will help attendees gain insight into collaborative interdisciplinary coursework and community work.
