The Six TWARC Principles
TWARC is a doctoral program designed to meet the needs of English instructors and students at two-year and four-year colleges and universities and in secondary schools who seek an organic understanding of the interrelations among teaching, writing, reading, and culture. TWARC is organized around six key principles. TWARC:
1. places teaching at the heart of its mission;
2. articulates an interdisciplinary and historical understanding
of new as well as traditional forms of knowledge in English;
3. facilitates multicultural and cross-cultural understanding and
provides the resources to enhance the teaching of people from
diverse backgrounds;
4. presents new understandings about the synthesis of reading and
writing of literary and non-literary texts and other cultural
representations;
5. acknowledges the impact of the telecommunications revolution
on all levels of education as it provides new opportunities for
interactive learning, community making, and the accessing of
information (as well as new opportunities for exploitation, with
which we must contend);
6. takes as a foundation principle the need for collaboration
among teachers, students, and teachers and students and thus the
fostering of learning communities built around shared
intellectual projects (SIPS).
Each of these six principles rests upon a common ground: the program seeks to promote human understanding and justice by synthesizing teaching, reading, and writing about our socially and historically different cultures.