WRDS at UBC

Come visit us Imagine Day on Tuesday, September 3 (1pm - 4:30pm)! 😊🎉👋 Learn more about our compelling Minor in Writing and Communication program, and diverse Writing, Research, and Discourse Studies courses. ✏️⚡ We'll also have special treats to give-away!

In WRDS 370, you’ll get to learn how equity-seeking groups are #reclaiming and #transforming the #academic and #research space that have historically, and predominantly continues to be dominated by Western values. ✊ More info: bit.ly/wrds370course

We are on Facebook now! 👋 Give us a #like and #follow to keep up to date with the latest events, projects, announcements, and everything that is Writing, Research, and Discourse Studies at #UBC: bit.ly/ubcwrdsfacebook

💡Explore how #digitalmedia such as #socialmedia, and tech such as #artificialintelligence text generation, transforms academic research in our course WRDS 360: Knowledge popularization: Research Writing in New Media! ⌨️⚙️ More info: bit.ly/wrds360

In WRDS 250, learn the tools to better evaluate the uses (and mis-uses) of information, and explore questions of historical inequality and social hierarchy as they relate to the production, mobilisation, and evaluation of information: bit.ly/wrds250 #wrdscoursefeature

Our #wrdscoursefeature today is WRDS 390: Writing Disability! In WRDS 390, learn how writing is being used by disabled folks to challenge ableist practices of knowledge making both inside and outside of academic communities: bit.ly/wrds390

Today’s #wrdscoursefeature is WRDS 200: Writing and Communication Foundations! In WRDS 200, you get to look at an array of diverse media txts to see how they're used in context to produce knowledge, build worlds, construct identities & exercise power: bit.ly/wrds200

Congratulations to our @ubcwrds faculty Dr. Kirby Manià, who has accepted a new position in the Coordinated Arts Program as an Assistant Professor of Teaching! She will split her teaching between CAP and WRDS. We look forward to continuing to work with Dr. Manià!

Our new Minor in Writing and Communication explores the role of writing & communication in making knowledge, shaping identity & mobilizing power✍️🗣️ It's open to students from across campus - including Arts, Commerce, Science, and LFS! For more info: bit.ly/4aNeVF3

Congratulations to Dr. Louis Maraj, @UBCWRDS Assistant Professor, for being awarded the 2024 Rhetoric Society of America Fellows' Early Career Award! 🥳

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed, Chair of @UBCWRDS and Assistant Professor of Teaching in @UBCJournalism for being awarded a prestigious 2024 Killam Teaching Prize! 🎊👏 Learn more: bit.ly/3QNe7ck

A newly published paper co-authored by Kirby Mania of @UBCWRDS explores the benefits of pairing first-year students with community-engaged researchers to produce infographic summaries of research articles about the DTES. You can read the article here: bit.ly/3y0o2os

For JWAM faculty, decolonization goes beyond the classroom. "Decolonizing Academic Writing," a recent panel held by Laila Ferreira and Evan Mauro, incorporated voices across UBC into the discussion on decolonizing research writing. Catch the full story! bit.ly/3JxwqOw

Danilo Angulo-Molina '22, Anna Ou '14, and Carmen Watson '19 joined classes virtually, Wednesday, to tell current students how their WRDS 150 classes have helped them land jobs and excel in their fields. Go to jwam.ubc.ca to learn how WRDS can enhance your career!

Learn more about @UBCWRDS #UBC prof Alexis McGee, whose research is inspired by the overwhelming accounts of Black women who are often not recognized or heard. ubctoday.ubc.ca/news/march-03-…

A new book by UBC Assistant Prof Dr. Alexis McGee focuses on how Black women have used sound to tell stories and forge community across generations. Explore the evolution of Black women’s voices from blues to Beyoncé here: bit.ly/3SWq0wL @UBC_Arts #BlackHistoryMonth

Shirley MacLaine: actress, author, mystic? On March 1st, join us for the latest edition of the Diversions Speaker Series. Dr. Andrew Connolly will break down how the celebrated actress became a figurehead for New Age spirituality. Click to register: bit.ly/49vctTR

Reading Week starts now! This is a great time to rest, recharge, and catch up on your work. Leave a comment to let us know how you'll be spending this week! Classes resume on February 26. #ubc #ubcarts #discousestudies #writingstudies

Celebrate the launch of Dr. Alexis McGee's book From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics with the talk “Gossip: A Sonic Technology of Black Women’s Rhetoric." February 9, 3:00-4:00, BuTo 241 Click to join via Zoom: tr.ee/3AOi0ryeYh

Congrats to Jennifer Gagnon and Kathryn Douglas-Campbell on their StEAR Enhancement Fund grant! Their work will collect experiences of Disabled people in the UBC community and help school leadership better understand how to improve campus accessibility and disability inclusion.