About

For more information about our courses, please visit our Courses page.

Our Role

To help you better understand how the Office of First-Year Composition serves your academic life, here's a list summarizing our role:

Prepare instructors to successfully teach course and unit objectives
Design policies to support instructors and students
Mediate disputes between instructors and FYC students
Support students and instructors during any grade appeals for FYC unit projects
Provide a safe environment for you to share concerns about your FYC classes or instructors
Answer questions about FYC policies or procedures
Have an optimistic view of students and instructors
Check fyc@ou.edu regularly and keep office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Cate 2, Room 427

Dr. Amanda Klinger serves as Associate Director. Matthew Jacobson, our Senior Assistant Director, oversees Assistant Directors Kasey Woody (former Senior Assistant Director) and Jason Opheim.

Our office manager is Sara Knight.

The Office of First-Year Composition is open Monday through Friday from 8 A.M. to 4 P.M.* at 316 Cate Center Drive, Cate Center 2, Room 426.

Our summer hours are Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 1 P.M.

Office of First-Year Composition
Cate 2, Rooms 425 - 428
(405) 325-5927
fyc@ou.edu

Director of First-Year Composition
Dr. Roxanne Mountford
Cate 2, Room 425
(405) 325-7554
mountford@ou.edu

Director of Technical Writing and Communication
Dr. William Kurlinkus
Cate 2, Room 338
wkurlinkus@gmail.com

Associate Director of First-Year Composition
Dr. Amanda Klinger
Cate 2, Room 428
amanda.klinger@ou.edu

Senior Assistant Director of First-Year Composition
Matthew Jacobson
Cate 2, Room 426
(405) 325-5927
mjacobson@ou.edu

Assistant Directors of First-Year Composition
Kasey Woody
Cate 2, Room 427
(405) 325-5927
kwoody@ou.edu

Jason Opheim
Cate 2, Room 426
(405) 325-5927
jasonopheim@ou.edu

Office Manager
Sara Knight
Cate 2, Room 427
(405) 325-6254
sara.knight@ou.edu