Composition & Rhetoric 2009:

Running the Revolution: New Teaching for Changing Times

This June, academics, writers, publishers, and lovers of language will converge as colleagues to explore the balance between the traditional and the contemporary in teaching, bringing the skills and joys of language to others.

 The YRC looks to issues and ideas that enable us to enable our students’ skills and passions relative to all aspects of discourse—cognitive, pragmatic, and artistic. Bring your concerns — ideological and/or intuitive — to the beach as we gather to rejuvenate ourselves and ponder what we are about —where the Monterey Bay warmly greets general sessions, workshops, panels, and luncheons. Please join us! Roam our web site by click the links to the left, or contact Sterling Warner, Conference Co-chair for more information: jsterlingw@sbcglobal.net.

Click here for a printable version of the YRC 2008 Flyer

This Year's YRC Program
 

A Mere Sampling of YRC 2009 Interactive Panels, Roundtables & General Sessions

* The Art of the Visual: Composition Makeovers Across the Disciplines
* Academic Insurgents: Challenging The Status Quo
* The Basic Skills Initiative: Student Equity in Motion
* Rank and File: The Expository Reading and Writing Program Marches On
* Distance Education on a Shoestring: Sympathy for the Instructor
* Staring Down Mountains: The National TYCA Research Initiative
* SLOs: Smoke, Mirrors. and Mythmakers
* “All You Need Is Love”—Or not: Relationships in Shakespeare
* Global Revolution: Teaching Critical Thinking in an International Context   
* Words, Worlds, Realities: “Talkin’ ‘bout My Generation” from Student Perspectives
* Changes Faces, Changing Times: A Cocktail Forum for Grad Students and Adjunct Instructors

 
 
 

College Credit (Post-Baccalaureate)

Earn up to five (5) quarter units of California State University credit while you enjoy the YRC. For more information, please click here for the PDF file.

These units are offered through California State University, Bakersfield at $45 per unit.  For Extended University application forms and details pertaining to the courses offered, see Rebecca Hewett at the YRC Registration Table during the conference.