Course Goals
This is a graduate seminar which will demand a high commitment from you as a student. If you want to do well in this course, I expect you to:
- Grow as a scholar
- Work hard
- Speak regularly in class
- Do all the work assigned
- Attend class
- Try your best
- Work well with others
- Keep an open mind
- Be courteous
- Improve yourself as a teacher
- Learn as much as you can
- Have some fun
Graduate students who meet all these very basic expectations will do well in this course.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of English 833: Theories of Composition, students enrolled in the course should achieve the following learning outcomes:
- Create a coherent philosophy of education grounded on a contemporary composition theory
- Analyze the background experiences of a teacher to identify that teacher’s central theories of learning
- Evaluate which theory of composition is the most beneficial for a particular group of writing students