Required courses. Students completing a designated emphasis in WRaCS will take one course in each of the four areas below. The student must take a minimum of 16 credit hours in WRaCS courses. These courses must be completed before the student can take their Qualifying Examination.
- a. Research Methods & Practice
CST 250: Research Seminar (4)
EDU 201: Qualitative Research in Education (4)
EDU 202N: Computer Analysis of Qualitative Data (4)
EDU 204A: Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: Analysis of Correlational Designs (4)
EDU 204B: Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: Experimental Designs (4)
EDU 205A: Ethnographic Research in Schools I: Current Theory and Practice (4)
EDU 205B: Ethnographic Research in Schools II: Field-Based Research Projects (4)
EDU 249: Discourse Analysis in Educational Settings (4)
LIN 263: Discourse Analysis: Text in Context (4)
UWP 220: Rhetorical Genre Theory (4)
UWP 255: Research on Response to Student Writing (4)
- b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
CST 212: Studies in the Rhetorics of Culture (4)
CST 295: Special Topics: Rhetorics of Posthumanism (4)
EDU 244: Topical Seminar in Language, Literacy, and Culture: Academic Language and Literacies (4)
EDU 248: Academic Language and Literacies
EDU 251: Research in Bilingualism and Second Language Education (3)
ENL 232: Problems in English Literature: Rhetoric and Literature in the English Renaissance (4)
ENL 238: Topics in Literary Theory: Rhetoric and the History of Writing Instruction (4)
LIN 265: Language, Performance and Power (4)
UWP 270: Literacy and Technology (4)
UWP 271: Second Language Writing (4)
- c. Writing Pedagogies
COM 390: Teaching Comparative Literature in College (4)
EDU 235: Critical Pedagogy (4)
EDU 243/UWP 243*: Research on the Teaching and Learning of Writing (4)
EDU 275: Effective Teaching (4)
LIN 289: Pedagogical Applications of Second Language Theory (4)
LIN 301: Teaching Academic Literacy (4)
SPA 215: Special Topics in Hispanic Linguistics (4)
UWP 390: Theory and Practice of University-level Composition Instruction (4)
UWP 392: Teaching Expository Writing (2)
UWP 395: Teaching Second Language Writers (4)
* Course proposed to Courses Committee.- d. Writing Program Design and Administration
EDU 203: Educational Testing and Evaluation (4)
EDU 226: Culture and Social Organization of Higher Education (4)
LIN 283: Politics of Bi- and Multi-lingual Literacies (4)
UWP 250: Writing Assessment (4)
UWP 253: Writing Program Administration (4)
UWP 261*: Writing Centers Design and Administration (4)
UWP 299: Individual Study: Graduate Internships in Writing Program Administration (4)
* Course proposed to Courses Committee.
Students should consult with the WRaCS Graduate Adviser and their departmental Graduate Adviser to determine which courses are appropriate for their program of study. A student may request that the WRaCS Graduate Adviser approve a course substitution for any of the four areas when a course has focused on subject matter appropriate to that area. The student should make the request before enrolling in the course.