Subject: ENC 3249 and ENC 3213 for SCIS - Syllabi From: Michael Creeden Date: 10/16/2018 12:46 PM To: Heather Russell , Erica Levy , "Nagarajan Prabakar" Hello All, My item of followup from our Oct 1 meeting was to collect syllabi from faculty who teach both courses so that you could review outcomes.  To do this, I corresponded with two full-time faculty members, Senior Instructors who have been teaching both courses for several years.  As you will see on the attached syllabi, the outcomes of both courses are now virtually identical because faculty have used the 3249 approach to update their 3213 courses. Please let me know if you have any questions. mc Michael Creeden Associate Chair University Instructor English Department Florida International University creedenm@fiu.edu | 305-348-2508 | DM 454B From: Erica Levy Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 12:08 PM To: Heather Russell Cc: Prabakar Subject: Re: Technical Writing Course Concern Hello Dr. Russell: My sincerest apologies for the delay. Thank you for meeting with the SCIS department a few weeks ago concerning the English courses that our students enroll each semester. According to the Advising Department:  91 SCIS students are taking the ENC3213 course during Fall 2018 As of yesterday, 225 SCIS students are taking ENC3249 Advising will offer a Spring 2019 update for the above course enrollments mid-January.   Best, Erica Erica Levy, M.S.Ed., Ed.M. Assistant Director, Academic Support Services School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, FL 33199 ECS 317 305-348-7702 Email: elevy@cs.fiu.edu  From: Erica Levy Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:07:57 PM To: Heather Russell Cc: Prabakar Subject: Re: Technical Writing Course Concern   Hi Dr. Russell: Thank you so much for your response. How is Monday, October 1st at 1pm? Best, Erica M. Levy On Sep 25, 2018, at 3:37 PM, Heather Russell wrote: > Dear Erica, > > The Associate Chair, Mike Creeden, who is also in Writing and Rhetoric and has some history of the evolution of the courses should be there also. We can both meet with you either Monday 10/1 or Tuesday 10/2 in the afternoon, preferably before 4pm. Please let us know your availability - we are happy meet in office in DM 452. Once you confirm I can send a calendar invite. Let me know if this works. > > all best, Heather > > > Heather D. Russell, Ph.D. > Chairperson > Professor of English > russellh@fiu.edu > (305)348-3369 >   >   > "The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency..." >   >  "...if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what might redeem us [is] our grace." -  Salt > From: Erica Levy > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:50:06 PM > To: Heather Russell > Cc: Prabakar > Subject: Technical Writing Course Concern >   > > Hi Dr. Russell: > > > My name is Erica Levy and I am the new Assistant Director for Academic Support Services in the School of Computing and Information Sciences. I would like to continue an email conversation (below) that was sent this past spring to one of our advisors concerning ENC 3249 (Professional and Technical Writing for Computing) and ENC3213 (Professional and Technical Writing).  > > > SCIS undergraduate students are required to take ENC 3249 which has a Computer Science focus than ENC 3213. The SCIS undergraduate committee believes that most of the SCIS students are unable to enroll in ENC 3249 due to the lack of class availability. > > > Dr. Prabakar, the head of the undergraduate committee and I would like to discuss the possibility of working together with you to get a sense of how we can meet SCIS student needs. Please let me know your availability for next week. > > > Thank you, > Erica > > > From: Craig McGill > > > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 4:25 PM > > To: William Solis > > Subject: Aaron Albiza 5540542 > > > > Hi Will, > > > > I have two students here from your program. I guess they have been told > > that ENC 3213 cannot be substituted for ENC 3249. Is there anything that > > can be done about this? The courses are very similar and personally, I do > > think its not fair for them. For one, Aaron was advised to take ENC > > 3213—it’s in the notes on eAdvisor. Additionally, they should not take ENC > > 3249 after having taken 3213; it’s virtually the same course. Please > > advise? > > > > Best, > > Craig > > > > Dr. Craig M. McGill > > Senior Academic Advisor > > Department of English > > Florida International University > > cmmcgill@fiu.edu, 305-348-3372 > > Erica Levy, M.S.Ed., Ed.M. > Assistant Director, Academic Support Services > School of Computing and Information Sciences > Florida International University > 11200 SW 8th Street > Miami, FL 33199 > ECS 317 > 305-348-7702 > Email: elevy@cs.fiu.edu  Attachments: ENC 3249 Fall 2018 Syllabus MP.docx 27 bytes ENC 3213Syllabus MP.docx 27 bytes 3213 Online Syllabus Summer 2017.docx 27 bytes Syllabus Fall 2018 ENC 3249 Sohan.docx 27 bytes