ENGL 6003

Critical Composition Pedagogies

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2021-2022.

This course explores the theory and practice of composition pedagogy, from the field's early responses to current-traditional rhetoric (CTR) – including process theory, critical pedagogy, and expressivism – to contemporary feminist, queer, working-class, black, brown, and disabled approaches to composition and anti-oppressive writing pedagogy. We will seek to engage as much as test such approaches in our own practice, considering how we are allowed to (and how we might alternatively) compose and teach composition as scholars within the academy today. Integral to such exploration will be projects that ask students to engage with their own experience in the classroom in addition to helping them develop their own rationales in conversation with course readings, projects such as: writing critical reflections, drafting a teaching philosophy statement, designing possible composition activities, and more. As with other composition-focused courses, mutual and intensive feedback will be emphasized.

When Offered Fall.

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