Instructor: John Cusick
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 10 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: [In Hawaiʻi we have] all the issues of urbanization and suburbanization and traffic and water management and safety issues of being in this urban environment... and [students] can write about it and they can do things that are impactful to make change. They can be that agent of change because they're involved in that meaningful way But then there's the campus inreach, right, that sort of idea that now that civic engagement is cultivating campus, relationship to this campus because how do we demonstrate our ability to really teach students what they need to learn if we're not demonstrating it here? Experiential, action-oriented... if this is such an urgency, then why aren't we doing something about it? We're in this island, we can't, we don't have that ability. This is what we have, and every bit of it matters.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 9 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Writing skill is mandatory. Good writing skills, and it doesn't mean that you're writing long; just whatever you're writing is clear and articulate and communicates what the student wants to say. In terms of a sense of place... independent of the writing... is that also the flip side is the oral communication skills... Maybe young people are less text-based, but that doesn't mean they're not reading.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 8 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Because I know students always need the Writing Intensive... I think all my classes have been Writing Intensive since 2005. Why not? Why shouldn't my classes be Writing Intensive to make it more impactful for students and allow them to continue along their goal towards graduation?... It's not my education, it's theirs. So many things that you can look at... if we're broadly defining sustainability or this idea of place-based, project-based learning. A sense of place.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 7 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: The classes I've taught have all been geography.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 6 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: We're a commuter campus, I get that...That's part of the challenge... you have these events that you assume would be packed, and there's just no one there. You have to understand that students have multiple pressures on them. It's always surprising to me that given our place... given the situation we find ourselves in as an island archipelago... and the vulnerability that that inherently represents, that there are these incredible opportunities for students to really delve into this sort of place-based understanding... [it's shocking] that there are so few people there. That's the challenge as faculty... this is a hard one... faculty are trying to do so much... but sometimes at a loss of cultivating a loss of a sense of relationship to the campus.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 5 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Students who come to these kinds of classes... they see the rich opportunity, it's one of those moments where you see the blossoming of young minds. Part of our task as faculty is pulling back the blinders so people have a broader peripheral vision... a broader perspective of what's going on. Listen to the conversations going on by people all around the world... It is about their beginning to... come to an understanding that this is about them... about how engaging they want to be in bringing this knowledge to the classroom environment... Student brings up this idea of I know this place, I know something about this place, and brings up this idea in a more meaningful way... then you just see them light up.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 4 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: The professionalization of whatever they do. Let's make sure it's a good product... a good piece of writing. Even before sustainability, because this class... others would have referenced it as environmental management. We are really, um, taught to think interdisciplinarily, to think geographically means to think across disciplinary boundaries. Lens of sustainability is so prevalent in the conversation that students are attaching this term to a particular set of meanings. It isn't so much to jump on that bandwagon, but it is allowing for their awareness... of how to live in this place.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 3 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Maybe the action plan is really a road map. In that planning, you're looking at what resources do I need? Who do I need? What Contacts? To really lay it out, so you're clear... The writing part is really an opportunity for them to think more clearly... so that it's achievable... You turn it around, because they're not writing this 20 page term paper for me, for getting a grade... this is something that's going to last. An ePortfolio, that is something that they can... point to that, reference that. It totally transforms how they look at it... they're writing, but it's more nuggets that they can tackle in, I think, more meaningful ways.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 2 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: That's what all I've done as a cultural geographer. Cultivated through my own travels; experiential, active learning opportunities. Fueled by a deeper understanding of place. You have to go into the geographic history to really appreciate that... These issues that we're dealing with have a history to them. It's this privileged window that we have as undergraduates to pursue this education... as faculty we set this buffet up to let students enjoy.
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ItemInstructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in a sophomore honors seminar, clip 1 of 10( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: The place just fully embodies the course... Campus stewardship [and] getting students involved has been a critical component. In the honors class you're gonna have students from across... various disciplines. You get a different kind of mix of students. A rich opportunity for them to network... to explore not only what their career trajectories are, but really what's going on with society at large.