Our 'program' does not really articulate a multimodal pedagogy... but FYW teachers are not discouraged from using multimodal assignments for one of the 4 units in the FYW course. For the small cadre of us who try these multimodal assignments, I would say we define the multimodal by option 2 above -- texts that use words in combination with other modes.

It's hard to answer this one, b/c programatically I wouldn't say there is one way it is defined. It would really depend on who you ask. For the people who publish and teach classes, I would say they mostly feel "texts that are designed using a combo of words, images, animations, video, audio, etc." But there is another good group of people who would say that it's anything digital, and that digitality is a necessary component of new media.

In some ways, our program is in flux. While there is no specific statement regarding multimodality in our program statements, we havae created specific courses and sections that focus on visual rheotric and visual argument and have thereby been integrating multimodality into our lexicon in the manner most closley connected with the first and second definitions above--emphasis on the digital, but not exclusively relegated to such a distinction.

The Writing Program (for first year students, taught mainly by literature graduate students) does not formally promote or deter instructors from experimenting with multimodalities. Instructors who choose to do so most likely work toward "texts that are designed using a combination of words, images, animations, video, audio, etc." In my view, the pedagogical practice emphasis has been: "Try this. Isn't it fun?"

I am starting to include some multimodal assignments in my classes. I know a few of my colleagues do to; however, programatically we emphasize traditional "composition."

I am one of 2 faculty in my English program that integrates conceptions of multimodality, but those conceptions are not written into programmatic goals (or some kind of required component).

There is not one agreed-upon definition in our program. Multimodality is sort of a niche, and each person doing it I think defines it slightly differently.