Fall 2025 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• CST 295: Special Topics (4)
Course Description: Special topics courses offered according to faculty and student interests and demands.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
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.
Whithaus / Wednesday 9:00 AM - 11:50 AM / Academic Surge 2362
• 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.
Instructor: TBD / Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM / Voorhies 396
• 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: Appointment as a Comparative Literature Associate Instructor or consent of instructor.
Instructor: Cheryl Ross
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 2026 Courses
• 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.
Thursdays / 1:10 PM - 4:00 PM / Academic Surge 2362
• EDU 204A: Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: Experimental Designs / Correlation & Regression (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.
Mondays and Wednesdays / 1:10 PM - 3:00 PM / Hutch 93
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• ENL 238: Topics in Literary Theory: Rhetoric and the History of Writing Instruction -- "Narrative Ecology" (4)
Course Description: “Every place,” Tim Ingold observes, “is a knot of stories.” Narratives, Eleanor Hayman writes, “emerge from and are co-dependent with ecological processes.” Humans, according to Sylvia Wynter, are “a storytelling species” who have come to tell a powerful story that denies “the storytelling origins” of our identities. This seminar will explore theories of narrative in the Environmental Humanities. How should we understand the ecological implications of key concepts of narrative theory, such as equilibrium, sequence, change, closure, and causality? What are the stakes of conceptualizing nonhumans as narrative agents—or even narrative-makers? What are the implications of defining narrative as a definitively human form of meaning-making or even as the underlying form of all knowledge? How do narratives represent non-linear change and emergent phenomena in complex socio-ecological systems? Is climate fiction a form of “cultural geoengineering”? In a time of planetary change, do we need “new stories”? How can literary studies broaden its terrain of study by recognizing non-textual forms of “storywork,” including oral storytelling? How might the “planetary” be incorporated into theories of world literature? If we ascribe a “world-making” power to narrative, what is the role of the listener or reader, the critic or theorist?
Instructor: Tobias Menely
• EDU 244: Topical Seminar in Language, Literacy, and Culture: Academic Language and Literacies -- Children and Youth as Writers, In and Out of School (4)
Course Description: Critical study of selected issues of language, literacy, and culture as they relate to education.
Wednesdays / 1:10 PM - 4:00 PM / Academic Surge 2362
c. Writing Pedagogies
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d. Writing Program Design and Administration
• UWP 203: Educational Testing and Evaluation / Introduction to Educational & Psychological Measurement (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 & 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.
Wednesdays / 9:00 AM - 11:50 AM / Academic Surge 2362
Spring 2026 Courses
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.
• 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.
Thursdays / 1:10 PM - 4:00 PM / Academic Surge 2362
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
• UWP 270: Literacy and Technology (4)
Course Description: Examines how the physical qualities of texts offer different affordances during production and reception; grounds these discussions in the development of literacy practices and writing technologies from ancient to contemporary; creates frameworks for research into literacy, teaching, and textual technologies.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
• 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 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
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