Overview
Description
Theory and practice in the teaching of college composition, particularly the first-year course.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Restrictions
Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain and apply a range of theories about how people learn to write in academic settings.
- describe, evaluate, and apply theories and research relevant to the teaching of first-year composition.
- develop and implement in their classroom practice curriculum-appropriate strategies to help college students improve their writing, reading, and thinking.
- discuss and apply strategies for effective formative evaluation and equitable summative assessment of student writing.
- discuss and implement effective classroom management techniques.
- develop an effective course rationale, assignment sequence, syllabus, lesson plans, and other pedagogical materials for a first-year composition course.