Fall 2023 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
• EDU 249: Discourse Analysis in Educational Settings (4)
Course Description: Examines form and type in discourse (e.g., narration, conversation, routines), approaches to discourse analysis, and research on classroom discourse (lessons, teaching/learning interactional sequences). Final term paper is an analysis of discourse data tape-recorded by student in a field setting.
Prerequisite(s): An introductory linguistics or sociolinguistics course 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.
c. Writing Pedagogies
• COM 390: Teaching Comparative Literature in College (4)
Course Description: Discussion of the theory and practice of teaching composition at the college level in a department of comparative literature in relation to the major cultural and social developments and with specific application to the introductory COM 001, COM 002, COM 003, COM 004.
Prerequisite(s): Appointment as a Comparative Literature Associate Instructor or consent of instructor.
• 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
• UWP 299: Individual Study: Graduate Internships in Writing Program Administration (4)
Course Description: Individual study.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Graduate standing.
Winter 2024 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 234A: Humanizing Research (4)
Course Description: Methodological approaches that humanize the qualitative inquiry process for researchers and the non-dominant communities they serve with a focus on ethnography, historiography, and social design experiments. Strategies for leveraging and disseminating findings to engage in transformational problem solving in education both in schools and in out-of-school settings.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 201 or similar introductory qualitative methods course.
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• EDU 247: Research on Response to Culturally Diverse Literature, K-12 (4)
Course Description: Research on response to culturally diverse literature in classrooms and other K-12 settings. Topics include reader response theories, values in expanding the literary canon, problems of cultural authenticity, resistance to multicultural literature, and instruction for diverse texts and learners.
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.
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.
Spring 2024 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
• EDU 204B: Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: Experimental Designs (4)
Course Description: Methods for analysis of experimental data in educational research. Topics include ANOVA, fixed v. random effects models, repeated measures ANOVA, analysis of co-variance, MANOVA, chi square tests, small sample solutions to t and ANOVA.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory statistics or consent of instructor.
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• EDU 264: Scientific Literacy and Science Education Reform (4)
Course Description: Current trends in science education reform locally, regionally, and nationally focusing on scientific literacy. Equity, access and "science for all."
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
• UWP 271: Second Language Writing (4)
Course Description: Traces the history of second language writing theory and research on second language writers in a variety of academic and professional contexts. Emphasis on writer characteristics, texts, and contexts.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
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
• UWP 299: Individual Study: Graduate Internships in Writing Program Administration (4)
Course Description: Individual study.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Graduate standing.