Are you a high school or community college teacher looking to boost your qualifications to teach dual credit courses in English language arts?
The Graduate Certificate program in composition studies explores the core principles of composition. You will learn to teach students to craft sound arguments using close attention to logic, context and audience, You will also develop a fluency with the current debates, schools and theories of writing instruction.
Specific areas of focus include:
Contemporary theory on the pedagogy of composition and literature
Linguistic structures and history of the English language
Reading strategies and literary analysis, with attention to close reading, style, form, genre, and rhetorical practices
Approaches to composition and writing instruction, including the identification and evaluation of sources, use of evidence, generation of ideas, and development and organization of argument
Fostering discussion and developing presentation skills in a seminar setting
Developing archival research skills and facility with electronic resources
Developments, trends, and frontiers in the digital humanities
The certificate requires five classes for a total of 20 credit hours.
The stand-alone Certificate in Composition Studies provides the requisite number of discipline-specific graduate credits for those who already hold a master’s degree. Students who need both the discipline-specific coursework and a master’s degree may take the additional English graduate classes required to earn a master’s in English.
Core Courses
DEPT./COURSE
TITLE
CREDIT HOURS
ENG-W 509
Writing and Literacy Studies
4
or
ENG-W 500
Teaching Composition: Issues & Approaches
4
ENG-W 510
Computers in Composition
4
or
ENG-W 590
Teaching Composition: Theories & Applications
4
or
ENG-W 620
Advanced Argumentative Writing
4
ENG-G 660
Stylistics
4
or
ENG-L 646
Readings in Media/Literature/Culture
4
ENG-W 501
Teaching College Writing
4
or
ENG-W 600
Topics in Rhetoric & Composition
4
ENG-R 546
Rhetoric and Culture
4
or
ENG-W 600
Topics in Rhetoric & Composition
4
or
ENG-W 602
Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition
4
or
ENG-W 682
Special Topics: Rhetoric & Composition
4
To enroll in this program, you must either possess a BA in English (or related bachelor’s degree in education with an English specialization, concentration, or outside area) or two years of secondary teaching experience in literature or composition classes.
NOTE: If you choose to pursue the IU Online MA in English, these certificate courses may apply to (“stack into”) your degree requirements. Admission to the Graduate Certificate in Literature does not constitute admission into any the face-to-face graduate programs in English at the participating campuses.
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