ENGL 593

Fall 2013 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 26-Dec 11

Prof Seminar College Tchg

Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated by Ph.D. candidates as topics vary, but without credit, after 8 hours have been earned in this course. Students needing the proseminar for their programs will be given priority enrollment. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the Department of English or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 593 class schedule data for fall 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32361	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	M	Lincoln Hall	Ritter, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: The Teaching of Rhetoric Section Info: Topic Section D: The Teaching of Rhetoric This is a course for students new to the teaching of college composition. Over the course of the semester, we will explore connections between theories of written composition and teaching practices. In particular, students in the course will theorize practices relating to: syllabus and assignment design, conferencing with students, responding to student work, dealing with conflict, maintaining language diversities in the classroom, and developing teaching personae. Requirements for the course include reading, participating in class discussion, blogging, drafting a statement of teaching philosophy, and creating a reflective teaching portfolio. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32365	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	English Building	Erickson, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Teaching of Bus & Tech Writing Section Info: Topic Section P: The Teaching of Business and Technical Writing. Section P will meet in room 107A English Bldg. This professional seminar is designed to ground graduate students in some of the salient genres, discourse conventions, and styles privileged by discourse communities engaged in business, as well as help those students construct a sophisticated conceptual understanding of writing well suited to the instruction/learning of writing-as-a-verb for those discourse communities. More importantly, this seminar will help its students critically engage useful pedagogical theory and theory from the field of business/technical writing, so they might improve their effectiveness as classroom instructors. This seminar is required of all graduate students teaching business/technical writing for the first time. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.