Graduate Composition and Rhetoric Courses
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506 Critical Pedagogies and Literacies (3) This course introduces students to two complementary bodies of literature: critical literacy and critical pedagogy. Students will analyze the educational system’s role in maintaining or challenging diverse values, policies, and interests. To do so, students will ask questions about what we teach, how we teach, who we teach, and who we are as teachers: questions designed to frame the educational system socially, politically, and institutionally. + 508 Writing Seminar (3) Experience in nonfiction prose writing; discussion and development of major projects. 594 Directed Studies in Composition and Rhetoric (3) Offers students systematic guidance and instruction in a specially formulated project involving scholarly or empirical research in composition. 595 Teaching Composition (3) A survey of developments and research in composition. Focus on the writing process, grading and evaluation, case approaches to writing assignments, writing across the curriculum, and remedial and developmental writing. 596 Composition and Rhetoric (3) Survey of rhetoric and composition theory. Frequent practice in writing. 600 Tutoring Composition (3) Theory and practice of teaching basic writing in the tutoring environment. 617 Writing Diverse Discourses in the Classroom (3) This course will
take up theories and practices of cultural diversities in written classroom
discourses. Reading assignments cover theories of representation and examples of
classroom pedagogies and research, all of which offer various ways to think
about diversity in the classroom and the rich, varied discourses that develop
from it. Individual research and writing projects will utilize ethnographic and
teacher research methods to look at issues of diversity in the written
discourses of the classroom in which we participate as either teachers or
students. Other writing assignments will include memoir and journal writing. |