Special Program Features, Ph. D. in Composition and Rhetoric

Nationally recognized undergraduate writing program: Graduate students can teach and conduct research in the University Writing Program's first-year writing courses and in the upper-level, disciplinary courses that are part of the University's Writing across the Curriculum project.

Within the First Year Writing Program graduate students are encouraged to teach Basic Writing as well as College Writing, and they may apply to teach in the Program's computer-equipped writing classrooms. Their teaching is supported by a strong, on-going staff training program that draws on both the graduate students' and the faculty's expertise.

The Western Massachusetts Writing Project: a National Writing Project site, based at UMass Amherst. The WMWP is in the 10%-most-active category of the 160 NWP sites. The WMWP offers a Summer Institute, extensive in-service programs, and special workshops for large numbers of teachers, primary school through college. Most recently, its workshops have included Teachers as Researchers, Writing for All (a program that serves ESL/Bilingual teachers), and Teachers as Writers.

Links to the School of Education's graduate program in Language, Literacy, and Culture.

 

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