FACILITIES

The Writing and Communication Program has its own physical facilities but operates across the campus, everywhere communication occurs.

The current physical home for the Writing and Communication Program is the Skiles Classroom Building.

• 30 Brittain Fellows have offices on the third floor of Skiles and in the DM Smith Building.


• The program suite, combining a conference room and the Director`s office, is located in Skiles 338.


• The Coordinator`s office is in Skiles 341.


• Faculty can reserve computer classrooms, Skiles 357 and 370, each equipped with networked workstations for an entire class, including software for varied multimodal assignments.


• Faculty can choose to teach in Skiles 302, a remodeled classroom configured especially for student laptop use, with individual mobile laptop caddies and roll-around chairs, easily adaptable for whole-class and small-group activities.

In the spring of 2009, the program opened a Research and Development Laboratory for program faculty. This Laboratory provides computers, scanners, printers, and cinema displays for innovative digital pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

In January 2009, the program expanded into the DM Smith building, which is located across Cherry Street from Skiles. This building temporarily houses the program`s new Communication Center and provides office space for some Brittain Fellows. In 2009-2010, the program`s administrative center will move to the former Navy ROTC Armory building, located on Bobby Dodd Way.

Georgia Tech is planning a remarkable new building, the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons (CULC). The fourth floor of the CULC will be the new home of the Communication Center, where undergraduate students will receive tutoring and coaching in written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal communication.