Fall 2024 Courses
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• CST 295: Research Seminar "Enduring Conditions: Chronic Illness, Disability, Care, and Access" (4)
Course Description: This interdisciplinary seminar is part of a Mellon-funded disability studies grant that brings together scholars, grassroots organizers, and culture workers to think about access, care, and humanistic approaches to chronic illness. Scholarly texts are drawn from the fields of critical race and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies history, and feminist science and technology studies (fSTS). Seminar participants will also engage with the arts and media as critical sites for understanding culture work bringing together knowledge in disability and chronic illness spaces. To embrace community-based research and knowledge sharing, the course will feature regular guest lectures from grassroots disability justice organizers and culture workers. To consider what disability studies and work on chronic illness can build together, we will read scholars such as Moya Bailey, Aimi Hamraie, Jina B. Kim, Aksum Nishida, and Sami Schalk, among others.
Prerequisite(s) / Restrictions: Permission of Instructor; Please reach out to Professor Cartwright (rcartwright@ucdavis.edu) for a CRN.
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 2025 Courses
• CST 250: Research Seminar (4)
Course Description: This seminar focuses on the preparation and writing of a draft dissertation prospectus in the qualitative interdisciplinary field of cultural studies. A dissertation prospectus is a distinct genre that can vary somewhat in its characteristics depending on specific field(s). During the quarter you will write components of the prospectus and critique each other’s work. By the end of the quarter you will have a workable initial draft of a dissertation prospectus.
While our work will focus on developing a working draft for your dissertation prospectus, we will also attend to other important writing opportunities such as academic journal articles, grant proposals, and public-facing, activist-oriented scholarship. This seminar should provide you space to think about how all these writing activities might fit within the developing trajectory of your research, scholarship, and public engagement.
Wed: 12:10pm - 3:00pm
• 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
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.
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.
• UWP 299: Individual Study: Graduate Internships in Writing Program Administration (4)
Course Description: Individual study.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Graduate standing.
Spring 2025 Courses
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• EDU 244: Topical Seminar in Literacy, Language, and Culture (4)
Course Description: Critical study of selected issues of language, literacy, and culture as they relate to education.
• 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.
Melzer / Friday 12:10 PM - 2:00 PM / Olson 217
d. Writing Program Design and Administration
• UWP 299: Individual Study (4)
Course Description: Individual study.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Graduate standing.