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Graduate Certificate in Composition and Rhetoric Coursework
Introduction to Writing and Teaching New Literacy Studies (ENG-W509)
New literacy studies is not a set of skills students are taught in schools rather social practices that can be observed expanding educators scope on literary domains in the spaces they circulate through. These course assignments focus on inscribing NLS pedagogy through teaching and learning through students diverse socially situated experiences at two-year college level bridging how literacies are learned at taught in everyday life and the writing tools of literacy used at home and at school. Acknowledging student diversity, welcoming and infusing students' funds of knowledge, and allowing students to draw upon and reflect on students' lived experiences promotes a sense of agency. These assignments allow students to shine in a modern multimodal, future-focused classroom paired with intentionally scaffolding assignments at various levels educating students.
Computers in Composition (ENG-W510)
Computers in composition explores literacy theories and the historization of writing tools as situated practices in time. Mastering multimodal projects infused with rhetoric in computerized-aids to study computers in composition analyzing artifacts, their sources, credibility, their rhetorical situations. This course builds a framework for student projects that are future-thinking pedagogical practices infusing digital rhetoric theory, open pedagogy, and multimodal practices as socially embedded practices inside the classroom, and the importance of computer coding, logic, and database design and their relation to online rhetoric, ethics and AI.
Course Coming Summer 2026: Rhetoric and Public Culture (ENG-W546)
This class focuses on ...
Topics in Rhetoric and Composition (ENG-W600)
Topics in rhetoric and composition
Stylistics (ENG-W660)
Stylistics is an interdisciplinary, sub-discipline of linguistics that takes an eclectic approach studying texts through a systematic analysis utilizing models of language for analytic techniques borrowing from linguistics, stylisticians identify the style in language and how it changes depending on how it is situated within a text based on several factors, author, context, genre, and historical period, concentrating on the study of "style" of texts that are both literary and non-literary. Critical linguistics, literary semantics, and literary pragmatics. Exploring Grice's Cooperative Principle, transitivity analysis, the qualities of modalities, bound and unbound morphology, graphology, phonology, semantics examines the meaning of words situated in a text, inflection, collocation, mind style, text world theories, schema theory, critical discourse analysis. While historical criticism uses outside sources to situate a text socially, economically, and politically, psychology utilizes psychoanalytic criticism. Stylistics uses an eclectic approach to analysis and can be criticized for being a similar type of close reading.
Using stylistic analysis to analyze poetry John Keats Autumn, Haynaku, and several of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories, including "Hop Frog" and The Cask of Amontillado." in it's conciseness, poets use more foregrounding, naturally short writings lend a natural choice for analysis mainly derivation and parallelism.
Master of Arts in English Coursework
Creative Writing for Teachers (ENG-W508) Elective
Creative writing for teachers at a two-year community college. This portfolio is birthed from my creative writing coursework and eportfolio that inspired me to create an online compilation of my coursework.
Course coming Fall 2026 (Readings in Media, Literature, and Culture (ENG-W646)
My second to last semester at IU will be...
Coming Spring 2027: Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition (ENG-W682)
My final course at IU will be...