Fall 2021 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
c. Writing Pedagogies
• EDU 235: Critical Pedagogy (4)
Course Description: A socio-cultural critique, from an interdisciplinary perspective, of educational reform and change. The critique will include an analysis of the influence of text content on the perpetuation of social power differences.
• UWP 392: Teaching Expository Writing (2)
Course Description: Discussion of problems related to teaching expository writing at the university level, with special emphasis on teaching reading and writing skills and responding to student papers.
Prerequisite(s): UWP 390; graduate standing; appointment as Teaching Assistant in the Composition Program; or the equivalent of UWP 390.
d. Writing Program Design and Administration
• EDU 203: Educational Testing and Evaluation (4)
Course Description: Theory and practice of measurement with educational and psychological variables. Common applications of standardized tests and debates surrounding their interpretation and use. Procedures for test development and scoring as well as statistical methods for evaluating reliability, validity, dimensionality, and test fairness.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 114; or equivalent.
• EDU 226: Culture and Social Organization of Higher Education (4)
Course Description: Critical study of culture and social organization of higher education institutions policies and functions in the U.S., with some attention to other countries.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
• SPA 215: Special Topics in Hispanic Linguistics: Technology and Foreign Language Learning (4)
Course Description: Specialized topics in Hispanic linguistics (e.g., pragmatics, sociolinguistics, topics in syntax, semantics, or diachronic studies). May be repeated for credit when topic differs.
Winter 2022 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
• CST 250: Research Seminar (4)
Course Description: Designed to facilitate student interaction and promote student research by guiding students through the production of a publishable essay. Essays submitted, distributed, and discussed by seminar participants.
• EDU 201: Qualitative Research in Education (4)
Course Description: Examines the design and conduct of educational research using non-numerical data (e.g., text, discourse, imagery and artifacts). Focuses on issues (e.g., validity, reliability, generalizability, ethics) and reporting genres (e.g., narrative accounts, case studies, and arguments).
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
• EDU 204A: Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: Analysis of Correlational Designs (4)
Course Description: Methods for analysis of correlational data in educational research. Topics include multiple correlation and regression, discriminant analysis, logistic regression, and canonical correlation. Emphasis on conceptual understanding of the techniques and use of statistical software.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory statistics or consent of instructor.
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• EDU 244: Topical Seminar in Language, Literacy, and Culture: Academic Language and Literacies (4)
Course Description: Critical study of selected issues of language, literacy, and culture as they relate to education.
• EDU 251: Research in Bilingualism and Second Language Education (3)
Course Description: Discussion and analysis of recent research in bilingual and second language education. Topics include:language acquisition in second language learners and bilinguals, second language teaching methods, language-use models in bilingual education, interaction analysis in bilingual/cross-cultural classrooms,use of the vernacular in classrooms.
c. Writing Pedagogies
d. Writing Program Design and Administration
Spring 2022 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
• EDU 205B: Ethnographic Research in Schools II: Field-Based Research Projects (4)
Course Description: Research projects in specific schools with cooperative critical analysis of the design, data collection, and inferencing by researchers. Continue to meet with instructors as a group throughout the quarter to discuss specific projects.
• UWP 255: Research on Response to Student Writing (4)
Course Description: Intensive focus on the critical topic of response or feedback to student writers. Coverage of philosophy, theory, and empirical research on teacher written feedback, teacher-student writing conferences, peer response, and error correction.
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• EDU 248: Academic Language and Literacies (4)
Course Description: Exploration of theories and research on academic language and literacies for the schooling of first and second language learners. Students use basic qualitative methods to collect and analyze classroom language and literacy data.
c. Writing Pedagogies
• UWP 390: Theory and Practice of University-level Composition Instruction (4)
Course Description: Examination of current theories and practices in teaching of writing. Practical application to undergraduate writing courses. Emphasis on designing assignments and class sequences, and responding to student writing. Examination of impact of cultural, technological and theoretical changes on composition pedagogy.
d. Writing Program Design and Administration