TEACHING WRITING:THEORY & PRAC

Prerequisites: the instructor’s permission. (Seminar). This course aims to contribute to your professional development as a teacher of writing. While we will focus on how to help undergraduates write argument-driven essays, the materials we will read and the teaching practices we will explore are designed to support your development as a teacher of writing across disciplines and genres. By the end of this seminar, you will learn the goals and structure of writing courses, the principles that inform their design, and the kinds of materials used in such courses. Your successful completion of this course would reflect a baseline interest in, and understanding of, Writing Studies and its pedagogies, necessary preparation for any instructor in a writing program. You may take the course either for full seminar credit, which would require an extended final seminar paper, for an R credit (for doctoral candidates and MAO candidates, only), or for Pass/Fail (for MFA candidates, only). To apply: Please contact Dr. Nicole B. Wallack (nw2108@columbia.edu) with a short email in which you describe your previous experiences in teaching writing and/or studying writing pedagogy, your field study at Columbia, and what questions are of interest to you when you think about what it means to teach and learn writing at the college level.