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TWC Curriculum Requirements

 

Curriculum Requirements

 

Teachers earn a Certificate by satisfactorily completing five graduate courses, or a minimum of 20 credit hours, in the teaching of writing. The five graduate courses consist of one core course and four elective courses. Major topics include theories and methods of teaching writing; understanding linguistic diversity; uses of technology in writing; social aspects of writing development; non-fiction writing; writing assessment; and teacher research. Four graduate credit hours may be taken at another accredited institution with approval by the Graduate Certificate adviser.

 

Core course (4 cr.):

W509 Introduction to Writing and Literacy Studies (4 cr.)

 

Elective courses: (16 cr.)

W500 Teaching Writing: Issues and Approaches (4 cr.)
W508 Graduate Creative Writing for Teachers (4 cr.)
W510 Computers in Composition (4 cr.)
W531 Designing and Editing Visual Technical Communication (4 cr.)
W553 Theory and Practice of Exposition (4 cr.)
W590 Teaching Composition: Theory and Practice (4 cr.)
W600 Topics in Rhetoric and Composition: Language, Dialects, and Writing (4 cr.)
W605 The Writing Project Summer Institute (4 cr.)
W609 Individual Writing Projects (1-4 cr.)
W615 Graduate Creative Non-fiction Writing (4 cr.)
W697 Independent Study in Writing (1-3 cr.) (Writing Project Advanced Institute)

 

 

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