Support for Classes

The CIS winter term has wrapped up! Thank you for including our program in your classrooms, your student groups, and your research groups. We look forward to collaborating with you in the upcoming terms.

If you are planning for Spring 2022 term, we are delighted to inform you the Course-Integrated Program Spring 2022 term has launched, so please feel free to fill out the following in-take form to book your spot.

The Course-integrated Support (CIS) program supports faculty, (student) associations, and research groups in writing and multimodal practices in their respective virtual and/or classroom learning environment by focusing on the following:

Creating autonomy/agency in student writing
Providing opportunity and resources for writing support
Building rhetorical distance to check assumptions

The CIS team promotes a collaborative approach with the instructor, student- led leader, or research member, to identify what ways Writing and Communication Centre can assist in fulfilling the needs of the course, (student) association, or the research group. The program incorporates the explicitness of conventions (based on discipline), experiential learning, and peer interaction.

If you have any further questions regarding course-integrated support, please contact Jirina Poch.

On this page:

CIS Success Stories

Communication support for courses, (student) associations, & research groups

Custom workshop and seminar request process

Ongoing support after CIS

Meet the CIS Team

CIS Success Stories

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Communication support for courses, (student) associations, & research groups

The Writing and Communication Centre is here to support your communication needs in the following streams:

Asynchronous
Synchronous (virtual or in-person)
Hybrid
Moderated discussion board on LEARN
Live Q & A

Custom Workshop and Seminar Request Process

Our Workshops & Integrated Programs Coordinator will work with you to develop a workshop or seminar on a particular topic/discipline specific genre suitable for your audience.

Before requesting a custom workshop, have a look through the current online workshops we have available for students during the term. These workshops are available through the LEARN platform.

Here’s a quick video to help guide you in requesting a custom workshop or seminar :

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Timing your request

All requests are assessed individually by our Workshops & Integrated Programs Coordinator to determine how we can best provide custom support for your course, (student) association, or research group. Due to the high volume of requests we recieve each term, we require requests to be submitted a minimum of four weeks before the planned delivery date.

Collaborative Process

Due to the custom nature of our workshop/seminar design, the Workshops and Integrated Programs Coordinator (WIPC) works closely with the member to assess needs, develop intended learning objectives, and create or access discipline specific examples to support audience learning throughout the process.

The CIS team promotes cross-collaboration with team members and supports the request from beginning to end.

If you have any further questions regarding course-integrated support, please contact Jirina Poch.

Ongoing support after CIS

We offer lots of ways for your students to access Writing and Communication support virtually. To connect them to us, you can include text in your syllabus, add our slide for LEARN, or add our 2-minute introductory video to your course. This fun video has open captions and we encourage you to include this transcript for accessibility.

If you have any further questions regarding course-integrated support, please contact Jirina Poch.

Meet the CIS Team

Image of Jirina Poch As the Workshops and Integrated Programs Coordinator, Jirina is responsible for the development, implementation, and delivery of virtual and in-person workshops and seminars to support the writing and communication activities of undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. Jirina maintains a highly collaborative process and coordinates with campus partners to design and deliver customized workshops and seminars for departments, research institutes, and other campus groups. Additionally, she ensures that values of equity and inclusivity are embedded in the practices and programs that CIS supports.

Jirina K. Poch| Workshops and Integrated Programs Coordinator

Image of Elisabeth van Stam Elisabeth is a writing advisor who specializes in creating unique communication programming and providing STEM communication support. This means she spends a lot of her time creating synchronous and asynchronous instructional content for faculty and students as well as helping STEM students sound clearer and more accessible! Her experience comes from UG and graduate degrees in the sciences, working as a wildlife biologist in consulting and at NGOs, as well as a life-long love for reading and writing. Fun fact: Elisabeth spent her previous career working with invertebrates, snakes, bats, songbirds, owls, eagles, and Painted Dogs. She was surprised to discover that teaching university students is not particularly different!