Current Course Offerings - dev
Spring 2025 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
EDU 244: Topical Seminar in Language, Literacy, and Culture: Academic Language and Literacies (4)
Critical study of selected issues of language, literacy, and culture as they relate to education.
Jimenez-Silva / Thursday 1:10 PM - 4:00 PM / Academic Surge 2362
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
c. Writing Pedagogies
UWP 390: Theory and Practice of University-level Composition Instruction (4)
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
Winter 2025 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
CST 250: Research Seminar (4)
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)
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).
EDU 204A: Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: Analysis of Correlational Designs (4)
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.
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
c. Writing Pedagogies
d. Writing Program Design and Administration
UWP 253: Writing Program Administration (4)
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)
Individual study.
Fall 2024 Courses
a. Research Methods & Practice
b. Rhetorics and/or Literacies
CST 295: Research Seminar "Enduring Conditions: Chronic Illness, Disability, Care, and Access"
Special topics courses offered according to faculty and student interests and demands.
c. Writing Pedagogies
COM 390: Teaching Comparative Literature in College
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.
UWP 392: Teaching Expository Writing
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.
d. Writing Program Design and Administration
UWP 299: Individual Study: Graduate Internships in Writing Program Administration
Individual study.