Active Learning Spaces

Faculty have access to four Active Learning Spaces in the LAN building. They are equipped with mobile changing stations, portable whiteboards, LCD screens, and rolling node chairs and rolling tables to increase comfort and to facilitate mobility and interaction among students and teachers. A number of Department of English classes are held in the Active Learning Spaces, helping faculty to move their course design beyond the lecture. The room design, flexible furniture, writing surfaces and technology all combine to support students and faculty in collaborative/interactive learning activities and more participatory use of media. Faculty also use them to facilitate flipped learning in combination with computer/writing labs. 

AUS Writing Center

The AUS Writing Center is dedicated to helping students become better writers. Our peer-tutors help students become independent, confident writers through an interactive approach to writing. Click here to find out more.

Writing Fellows Program 

Writing Fellows are undergraduate and graduate students who are trained as peer consultants and who are assigned to a specific course for the entire semester. To find out how to become a Writing Fellow, or to request a Writing Fellow for your class, please click here.

First Year Reader

This collection of essays, written during the remote learning period of Spring Semester 2020, showcases outstanding work from first-year AUS students in the required Writing 101 and 102 courses. The work covers a range of genres, from analysis and argument to research and reflection. Read on to discover excellent work by our students from across the university. Download the Spring Semester 2020 edition here.