LLMs in English Departments: Teaching Rhetoric as AI Literacy
an AI Amplified showcase spotlight from the Kirwan Center
Location
Online
Date & Time
September 21, 2026, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Description
AI Amplified: Showcase Spotlights explores innovative applications of generative AI in teaching and learning. Each session features educators pioneering thoughtful, pedagogically-grounded approaches to AI integration in their classrooms.
This session reframes interactions with generative AI as a rhetorical act within language-driven systems. In UMBC's ENGL 211, students apply audience, purpose, tone, and revision principles to AI interactions, learning to treat models as thinking partners rather than text generators. Participants will examine course-based assignments that position AI as a process-oriented tool, helping students critically shape and evaluate AI output across disciplines.
Presenter: Dr. Tanya Olson, Lecturer, Department of English, UMBC
Register for the Virtual Event
This series is co-sponsored by the University System of Maryland Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, MarylandOnline, and the Council for University System Faculty (CUSF).
