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Current Course Offerings

Summer 2023

Required for the Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing:

  • Summer Leadership Institute (Westfield)

Electives:

  • English 634: Writing and Rhetoric: Writing for Authentic Audiences about Authentic Problems (Westfield; hybrid)
  • English 592E: Examining our Shared Humanity: Holocaust Education and Social Responsibility (UMass)

Fall 2023

Required for the Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing:

  • N/A

Electives:

  • Writing about Anti-Racist Literature (UMass) (tentative)

Spring 2024

Required for the Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing:

  • Summer Institute Inquiry Research (Westfield)

Electives:

  • English 583: Issues in Teaching Writing (Westfield)
  • English 712: Writing and the Teaching of Writing (UMass)

 

Past Course Offerings

Required for the Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing:

  • English 591LL: Literacy Leadership Institute (3 credits) (previously English 591AA)
  • English 591Q: Teacher Inquiry Seminar (3 credits) (previously English 591AB)
  • English 712: Writing and the Teaching of Writing (3 credits)

Electives:

  • English 591C: Writing Teachers Writing (1 credit)
  • English 591NN: Teaching for Racial Justice: Identity, Culture, and Pedagogy (3 credits)
  • English 591T: Teaching with Technology (3 credits)
  • English 592CE: Writing and Teaching Argument (3 credits)
  • English 592D: Principles & Practices of Effective Content-Area Literacy Curriculum Design (3 credits)
  • English 592E: Teaching Social Justice through the Lens of the Holocaust (3 credits)
  • English 592E - 01: Teaching Social Justice through the Lens of the Holocaust (3 credits)
  • English 592L: Civics Literacy Leadership Institute (3 credits)
  • English 592LL Best Practices in Civics Literacy (1 credit - extension of 592L)
  • English 592R: Reading and Teaching Literary Nonfiction and Informational Texts (3 credits)
  • English 592S: Science Literacy Leadership Institute (3 credits)
  • English 592T: Topics in Literacy Education (1 credit) (may be repeated for up to 3 credits)
  • English 593C: College, Career, and Community Writers Program (3 credits)
  • English 593R: Reaching and Teaching All Learners (3 credits)
  • English 891I: Writing and Emerging Technologies (3 credits)
  • English 891LL: Composition Theory (3 credits)
  • English 891Z: Introduction to Research on Writing (3 credits)