Fall 2022 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
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.
c. Writing Pedagogies
• 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
• ENL 232: Problems in English Literature: Rhetoric and Literature in the English Renaissance (4)
Course Description: Selected issues in the current study and critical assessment of a limited period or topic in English literature.
• LIN 283: Politics of Bi- and Multi-lingual Literacies (4)
Course Description: Anthropological, psycho-social, political, and educational perspectives on bi- and multi-lingualism. Power, colonialism, "native/non-native" speakers, and varieties and the unequal distribution of social goods. Analysis of how competing factors keep peoples disenfranchised.
• UWP 250: Writing Assessment (4)
Course Description: Examines key testing and measurement concepts; the history of writing assessment; and relationships among writing tests and methods of teaching writing; the impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and how educational policies both drive and respond to writing assessments.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Winter 2023 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.
• EDU 205A: Ethnographic Research in Schools I: Current Theory and Practice (4)
Course Description: Current literature from anthropology and society related to schools.Emphasis on the organizational structure of institutions,and the analysis of face-to-face interaction. Explore the relationship between field-based research and theory development on the acquisition of knowledge in specific social and cultural contexts.
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
c. Writing Pedagogies
d. Writing Program Design and Administration
• UWP 253: Writing Program Administration (4)
Course Description: Theories, models, and procedures of writing programs, primarily in higher education. Developmental, first-year, and advanced writing programs, writing centers, writing-across-the-curriculum programs, writing minors and majors, and graduate programs in rhetoric and composition.
Spring 2023 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
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