California State University, Northridge
- ENGL 654: Digital Publishing Spring 2021
This course focuses on the production process for publishing various digital projects, such as magazines, monographs, journals, or open/non-linear projects like digital archives. While the course specifically deals with digital publishing project management and workflows with some current platforms and tools, such as ANVC Scalar, InDesign, and WordPress, it also covers other critical aspects of digital publishing, such as intellectual property issues, project sustainability, and crafting funding proposals for non-traditional publishing projects.
- ENGL 654: Literacy, Diversity, and Technology Spring 2015
This course incorporates topics both from literary studies and rhetoric and composition, and focuses primarily on new media composition, grant writing, sci-fi movies, postcolonial fiction, and diversity as it pertains to creative and academic writing practices.
This graduate seminar provides an overview of rhetoric and composition theory and explores how rhetoric informs contemporary composition theory and pedagogy as well as conceptions of (written) language, in academia and beyond. Some of the questions we will consider are: Where does rhetoric, the art of persuasion, figure in the contemporary scene of writing, sometimes also considered an age of the digital? How do diverse cultural-rhetorical conventions and language differences shape—and are shaped by—writing?
- ENGL 600BF: College Composition—Field Experience Fall 2016
Study of theoretical and pedagogical issues that impact the teaching of writing at the college level. Review of current studies in rhetoric, composition, and literacy. 600B/F also entails faculty observation of student teaching.
English 600B is the second course in English Department’s Teaching Associate program. It is also designed as a teacher-training seminar to prepare TAs to teach second course in First-Year Composition, English 114B, “Approaches to University Writing.” As 600A, this course also addresses both theoretical and pedagogical issues associated with the teaching of Composition today, including theories of assessment, genre, and digital media, as well as key elements of classroom teaching, such as project design, lesson planning, evaluation, and classroom management.
- ENGL 600A: College Comp—Theory and Pedagogy Spring 2016
English 600A is the first course in English Department’s Teaching Associate program. It is designed as a teacher-training seminar to prepare newly selected TA candidates to teach First-Year Composition, focusing on English 114A, “Approaches to University Writing.” The course addresses both theoretical and pedagogical issues associated with the teaching of Composition today, including theories of process, social constructionism, translingual writing, and emerging media, as well as key elements of classroom teaching, such as assignment design, lesson planning, evaluation, and classroom management.
English 525 deals with the many fascinating topics that are addressed in the field of Writing Studies, including process, invention, revision, argument, critical thinking, genre, media, assessment, and rhetorical reading and composition of alphabetic and digital texts. A key component of this course is the idea of connection: connection between composition theories and pedagogical practices, connection between reading and writing, connection between print and digital texts, and connection and collaboration among students in the class. The course will also include reflection. Through reading and discussion, students will develop their own comprehensive and coherent concept of what we mean when we talk about “writing” at a time when digital media are becoming increasingly important, consider what makes writing effective, examine how people learn to write, and explore the many political, ideological, and modal issues associated with the practice and teaching of varied forms of writing, including multimodal compositions.
- DW 459: Digital Writing Fall 2015
This course engages the expanded notion of writing, and focuses specifically on the composing practices with multisemiotic resources, such as sound, video, images, web, graphics, and animation, in the digital world. It also deals with social media, digital identity, and ethical issues surrounding the digital production of texts.
- ENGL 315: Digital Writing Spring 2022
This course engages the expanded notion of writing, and focuses specifically on the composing practices with multisemiotic resources, such as sound, video, images, web, graphics, and animation, in the digital world. It also deals with social media, digital identity, and ethical issues surrounding the digital production of texts.
- ENGL 205: Business Comm. in its Rhet. Contexts (Spring 2021, Summer 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
English 205 focuses on the development of critical reading, research, writing, and technology skills in the context of business. The course has four major elements: a) rhetorical reading, research, and writing, b) collaboration and presentation, c) understanding and analyzing diverse audiences, and d) ethical considerations in business communication.
- ENGL 115: Approaches to University Writing Fall 2019, 2014
Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the elements of prose style.
- ENGL 114A: Approaches to University Writing Fall 2014 (2 sections)
Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the elements of prose style.
- ENGL 114B: Approaches to University Writing Spring 2015 (2 Sections)
Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the elements of prose style.
- ENGL 113A: Approaches to University Writing Summer 2021
Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the elements of prose style.
- ENGL 113A: Approaches to University Writing Spring 2024, Fall 2023, 2022, 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the elements of prose style.
- ENGL 113B: Approaches to University Writing Spring 2024, Fall 2022, 2020, Fall and Spring 2019, Spring 2018, 2016
Expository prose writing with a focus on both content and form. Specific emphases shall include the exercise of logical thought and clear expression, the development of effective organizational strategies, and the appropriate gathering and utilization of evidence. Includes instruction on diction, syntax, and grammar, as well as the elements of prose style.
- ESW 99: Writer’s Workshop Summer 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
This course is designed to give students opportunities for introspection, collaboration, summarizing, responding to peers, and receiving feedback on reading and writing assignments.
Syracuse University
- WRT 307: Professional Writing 2 Sections
This course engages a variety of professional genres that are frequently encountered in the workplace, and teaches students to analyze audiences and situations, manage a sustained, multiple product project, work collaboratively, design and produce texts and graphics, conduct basic usability testing, and develop effective oral presentations.
- WRT 205: Critical Research and Writing 8 Sections
This course engages the rhetorical strategies, practices, and conventions of critical academic researched writing.
Online version of WRT 205 that focuses on the rhetorical strategies, practices, and conventions of critical academic researched writing.
- WRT 120/220: Writing Enrichment 2 Sections
These courses are independent studies in writing, and students are required to work one-on-one with a professional writing consultant for a minimum of 12 hours during a semester to complete them.
- WRT 105: Academic Writing 2 Sections
This course focuses on the aims, strategies, and conventions of academic prose, especially analysis and argumentation, and engages students in the study and practice of writing processes, including critical reading, collaboration, revision, editing, and the use of technologies.
Pokhara University
- 550.3 Theories of Globalization 2 Sections
The course examines the themes, locations and representations of globalization from a variety of theoretical perspectives and invites students to investigate how the processes of globalization are embodied in specific texts and contexts.
- 455.1 Discourses in the Disciplines 3 Sections
This course studies how multiple discourses of literature, philosophy, history, and politics come together to construct certain discourse communities, and seeks to introduce students to the wide range and variety of English prose, leading to a critical awareness of the textuality of writing, which they can apply to their own writings.
- 440.1 Environmental Composition 2 Sections
This course takes an environmental approach to writing and studies literature in order to learn about the relation between nature and culture.
- 425.1 Critical Approaches to Literature 2 Sections
This course attempts to orient the students towards various critical schools and approaches including traditional criticism, formalism, psychoanalysis, mythological and archetypal criticism, feminist criticism, cultural studies, Marxist criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism, and reader response criticism, and encourages them to apply those critical approaches to particular literary texts.
Tribhuvan University
- 508.2 Non-Western Studies 1 Section
This course seeks to provide a countervailing balance to the primacy of the Western ideas and literature in the academic courses of universities of Nepal and elsewhere, therefore, integrates contribution of the diverse range of societies from China, Korea and Japan to Indian subcontinents to Persian and Arabian world to Africa, the Caribbean and the native settlers of the America to ideas, culture and literature of the world.
- 505-1 A General Survey of British and American Fiction 2 Sections
This course is designed to offer students a critical-chronological survey of British and American fiction by examining them from a variety of theoretical perspectives: Marxism, Gender Studies, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, Formalism, Reader Response criticism, and minority and post-colonial studies.
- 504-1 Creative Writing 1 Section
The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the processes involved in producing different types of creative texts ranging from poetry, fiction, and dram to films in order to scaffold their creativity in composing similar or different texts.
- 502-1 Critical Thry from Plato to Post-moderns 2 Sections
This course surveys critical theories from ancient Greek time to the present. Therefore, the course comprises of selections from canonical critical texts from classical Greece to modern Western Criticism.
