Teaching
English Language Teaching
CWC’s comprehensive teaching support includes ELT initiatives, academic and course-specific workshops, and specialised research writing schools conducted throughout the year. Recognizing the importance of English Language Teaching (ELT) as the sole medium of instruction at Ashoka, CWC is committed to enhancing student proficiency in the language through comprehensive, year-long support in initiatives like the Academic Bridge Programme, two four-credit courses and personalised one-on-one sessions. Notably, the team published a faculty resource guide on identifying, teaching, and assessing ELT students, underlining strategies for modifying course material and assessment rubrics.
Winter and Summer Schools
CWC offers two rigorous, intensive, and research focused schools throughout the year, once at the end of the Monsoon Semester, which is called the Winter School, and the other at the end of the Spring Semester, called the Summer School. Both these schools are offered in different cohorts of Masters, and PhD level students, both in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the sciences. CWCs research schools have helped students navigate research writing as a process that can be learned, and practised. The schools are designed to invite students with their research proposals, research writing, and then work on them through various steps. For PhD students, this allows them to map out a working model to write their thesis without being daunted about originality, adequate research, chapterization, or plagiarism. Masters students also learn to turn their assignments or masters thesis into well rounded publishable papers.
Academic Workshops
CWC’s core academic workshops delve into the mechanics of writing in the academy, emphasising dynamic pedagogies that focus on both the writing process and outcomes. These workshops, tailored for students across disciplines, highlight key communication moves such as informing, persuading, and analysing for varied purposes and genres.
Course Specific Workshops
Collaborating with diverse departments and individual professors, CWC also designs in-class sessions and workshops tailored to discipline-specific writing needs. Topics range from academic integrity to critical reading of discipline-specific texts, catering to departments like Sociology and Anthropology, Physics, Visual Arts, Environmental Studies, and the Young India Fellowship.
