ENGL 803
Language and Cognition
Examines areas where language, thought, and cognitive process interact. Studies the essential nature of meaning and mental concepts, the core characteristics of language, and the complex relations between the two domains. Focuses on the brain/mind dichotomy, brain functions relating to language, mental modules and the mental lexicon, the role of memory in language usage, first language acquisition, the cognitive strategies involved in processing, in formation and using language, parsing and speech production, language disabilities, comprehension of spoken and written texts, and rhetorical and practical aspects of both texts and spoken language.
ENGL 805
Language and Social Context
Introduces the study of language as a social phenomenon, including such topics as language varieties, stereotypes and social identity; language planning and language policy; standard and nonstandard usage; censorship; discourse analysis; language attitudes; language, culture and thought; communicative competence; small group communication; and classroom interactions.
ENGL 808
Technology and Literacy
Presents an overview of the interrelationship between literacy and technology. Demonstrates approaches to teaching English using computer technology.
ENGL 815
Qualitative Research
Involves both reading about and training in qualitative research methods such as participant observation, interviewing, coding, and analysis. Topics include: ethics of using human subjects, epistemological foundations, research design, collection, and analysis. The course also covers dissemination of research findings. This course is for second- and third-year students, not first-year students
ENGL 823
Second Language Teaching
Considers trends, issues, research, and exploration in second language teaching, as well as language learner assessment and testing.
ENGL 824
Second Language Acquisition
Introduces current research in second language acquisition, especially in English. Focuses on prominent research trends in the study of the language learner, the process of acquisition, and the interaction of learner, language, and context.
ENGL 825
Second Language Literacy
Studies theory, research, and pedagogy associated with the development of literacy in two languages, either simultaneously or successively. Focuses on how individuals and groups become literate in English as an additional or second language. Includes explorations of political, cultural, social, contextual, as well as cognitive, textual, and educational issues that arise in acquiring and using a second literacy. Open to MA TESOL and PhD students in Composition and Applied Linguistics.
ENGL 830
Research and Practice in the Teaching of College Composition
Studies characteristics of the writing process and of the basic writer, methods for the evaluation of writing, and approaches to the teaching of writing in schools and colleges.
ENGL 831
Rhetorical Traditions
Studies how rhetorical traditions influence the teaching of composition. Examines how cultural factors such as history, politics, ideology, gender, race, and ethnicity affect the composing process. Encourages students to think of composition as an open, multicultural event of imagination and social innovation.
ENGL 842
Cross-Cultural Communication
Investigates cultural behaviors, assumptions, values, and conflicts surrounding communication across cultures in the context of teaching English as a second or foreign language at all levels.
ENGL 846
Advanced Seminar in Literacy: Collaborative Learning & Digital Authorship
This course examines theories of and current research on collaborative learning and digital authorship. Students will engage with conversations about collaborative learning and writing in the fields of composition studies and the learning sciences, and will enact these theories by designing and producing a collaborative project with their classmates.
ENGL 846
Advanced Seminar in Literacy: Digital Rhetoric
This advanced seminar focuses on digital rhetoric - the application of rhetorical theory to digital texts and technologies. As an emerging field of inquiry, digital rhetoric encompasses the study of rhetorical techniques for production and analysis; new media function, design, and capability; digital identity; community formation; ideology, epistemology, and culture in digital interfaces and texts; and technology's influence on agency and the emergence of posthuman actors in networks and interfaces (Eyman, 2015). This course will explore these issues with/through classical, modern, and postmodern theories of rhetoric. Course readings will include book-length texts, as well as scholarly articles and web texts from academic journals in digital rhetoric and computers and writing.
ENGL 846
Advanced Seminar in Literacy: Hybrid & Online Writing Pedagogy
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of technology-mediated teaching and learning with a focus on teaching college-level writing hybrid and online learning environments. Students will explore multiple modalities for facilitating student-instructor and student-student interaction and for engaging in assessment and evaluation. Students will also design instructional materials and compose a philosophy of technology-mediated teaching and learning.
ENGL 846
Advanced Seminar in Literacy: Language Teacher Identities
This is a graduate seminar course focused on inquiry as a form of meaning making around who we are as language teachers. Specifically, this course is designed to explore, understand, construct (de- and re-construct), and complicate our language teacher identities in the fields of composition, TESOL, applied linguistics, and teacher education. As such, we will approach this course from three interrelated directions:
- Explore course readings focused on language teacher identities
- Co-construct our knowledge, experiences, and pedagogies throughout the class sessions focused on the course readings
- Draft a 25-minute reflective writing piece (at the end of each session) using a variety of arts-based inquiry (genres that you are comfortable with such as free-writing, poems, drawings, etc.)
The process of coming to understand our language teacher identities is a complex, fluid, contested, and multiple in nature, and it is this process that we will unfold in our class discussions as well as in our writings.
ENGL 846
Advanced Seminar in Literacy: Writing in Transnational Contexts
This course will take a transdisciplinary perspective to investigate the overarching question: how do we, as teacher-scholars, approach the study of writing in transnational contexts? To that end, we will interrogate and theorize our understanding of writing and language for the 21st century. We will also investigate how we, teacher-scholars, as well as our students, move beyond social constructs related to language and writing, identity, and culture, and how these notions interact among them in and outside of the classroom. Finally, this course will offer you the opportunity to design pedagogical material that accounts for transnational perspectives towards writing and language practices for specific educational contexts.
ENGL 854
World Englishes in Composition and Applied Linguistics
Provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding issues around World Englishes scholarship where teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and administrators from a variety of contexts come together to understand, explore, and critique how English(es) is/are positioned around the globe, and how that positioning impacts learning and teaching.
ENGL 867
Research on Writing Centers and Writing Program Administration
Examines the history, theory, and every day practices that surround writing centers and writing programs, including advances in writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines. Students will read key books and articles and develop a research project suitable for publication and presentation.