Bard College Catalogue 2012-13
Institute for Writing and Thinking
www.bard.edu/iwt
In August 1982, Bard College established the Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT), a place where teachers could imagine and practice new teaching ideas. Since IWT’s inception, approximately 45,000 teachers from schools across the nation have participated in Institute programs and workshops, which focus on the role of writing in teaching and learning.
At the start of its 30th academic year, in November 2011, the Institute offered “Writer as Reader: Discovering New Ways into the Text,” a series of concurrent, one-day workshops that included sessions ranging from “Facts in Fiction / Fiction in Facts: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers” to “Travel, Time, and Transport: Reading Slavery in Kindred by Octavia Butler and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.” December weekend workshops included “Thinking Historically through Writing,” “Fictions: Memory and Imagination,” “Teaching the Academic Paper,” and “Writing to Learn.” In March, IWT offered the fourth in a series of Curriculum Conversations, intended to invite new thinking on how canonical texts are taught through writing; the 2012 Conversation focused on Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In April, the Institute hosted “The Fourth Genre: Creative Nonfiction in the Classroom,” a conference that included a plenary session featuring Bard faculty members and well-known writers Luc Sante and Susan Fox Rogers. Weeklong summer workshops included “Poetry for Today’s Classrooms,” and “Inquiry into Essay,” among others. IWT also offered on-site workshops at educational institutions in California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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