An orientation to graduate study in general and the nature and methods of research in particular. Should be taken during the first semester of graduate work.
A variety of workshops on special topics within the discipline. Goals and objectives will emphasize the acquisition of general knowledge and skills in the discipline.
This course examines approaches to addressing social and emotional learning and its competencies through literature.
Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
Special Notes
Maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.
Advanced study of teaching and learning, integrating theory and practice for teachers of writing.
This course explores advanced pedagogical methods and critical approaches to teaching literature at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Students will learn a variety of literary theories, instructional strategies, and practical classroom applications. Special emphasis will be placed on integrating diverse perspectives, fostering critical thinking, and using literature to address social, cultural, and political issues.
This course examines teaching in an era of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, using AI as a lens for exploring what teaching is, what it requires, and what it produces. As practicing educators, you will examine how AI intersects with the human work of building relationships, responding to students, differentiating instruction, and making professional decisions. The course progresses from foundational concepts about AI and its impact on education to practical applications including prompting, tool selection, accessibility, differentiation, materials development, assessment, and inquiry-based learning. Ethical questions, including those related to agency, responsibility, and personhood, are integrated throughout the course. The course culminates in a capstone project in which you design and build an AI assistant that reflects your knowledge, teaching philosophy, ethical commitments, and professional identity.
This graduate course provides graduate-level students an opportunity to both experiment with emerging digital technologies and to develop disciplinary research on their pedagogical or professional applications. Students will develop a research bibliography and, from that, a conference paper that puts their experiences with a technology in conversation with emerging scholarship.
An investigation of a theme, form or problem that cuts across periods and nationalities.
This course offers an introduction to the discipline of rhetoric and composition, emphasizing disciplinary identity and evolution, as well as theoretical perspectives on discourse, rhetoric, and writing pedagogy.
Graduate-level focus on a critical and/or literary problem, discourse, theme, genre or individual author.
This course familiarizes students with a range of 21st century digital composing tools and methods of assessing multimodal projects.
This course prepares students with tools and methods to read and teach works of poetry.
This course prepares students with tools and methods to read and teach works of fiction.
This course prepares students with tools and methods to read and teach dramatic literature.
This course offers in-depth study of literature from a particular literary period and its movements. Works chosen suit the variable title of the course and represent writers from or based in the United States of America.
This course offers in-depth study of literature from a particular literary period and its movements. Works chosen suit the variable title of the course and represent writers from the British Isles and/or from former colonies.
Teachers teaching teachers about writing to extend their knowledge in theory and practice and to prepare them as writing consultants. Open to K-12 teachers in all disciplines. S/U graded.
Train new teaching assistants in School of English to teach college level composition to UNC students.