IUP CAL Courses
Cohort 2024
Research & Practice in the Teaching of College Composition
In brief:
"The course covers best teaching practices such as responding to writing, performing assessment, and interacting with students in the college composition classroom."
Dr. Gian Pagnucci
Critical Perspectives on Second Language Teaching & Teacher Education
In brief:
This course "will investigate what critical pedagogy is and how it influences what and how we situate our work as teacher scholars, language teachers, teacher educators, writing teachers, writing center tutors/directors."
Dr. Gloria Park
ENGL 850, 851, 852
Professionalization in CAL
In brief:
"The course will explore the structure of academic institutions and familiarize students with contemporary issues in the field appropriate for their level."
Dr. Melanie Holm
Technology & Literacy
In brief:
"This course provides an overview of the interrelationship between literacy and technology."
Our focus encompasses various approaches to teaching English using computer technology and considers ways in which we might approach English instruction as information managers and stewards.
Dr. Gian Pagnucci
ENGL 815
Qualitative Research Methods in CAL
In brief:
"The purpose of this interactive research seminar is to guide advanced doctoral students through exploring a variety of qualitative research methods in order to develop and design their qualitative research proposals."
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Dr. Gloria Park
Theories of Composition
In brief:
This course reviews the major theories of composition, especially those of the modern and postmodern eras [and] examines how cultural factors such as education, history, politics, ideology, gender, race and ethnicity affect the theorizing about composition." Students will construct their own writing program proposals based on the theories and discussions explored in this course.
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Dr. Daniel Weinstein
Narrative Inquiry & Narrative Theory
In brief:
This course is focused on "reading, writing, and telling stories. We’ll study narrative inquiry and story-based teaching [and] look at why stories are so important to our thinking and also why they seem to be overlooked in our schooling."​
Dr. Gian Pagnucci
Research on Writing Centers & Writing Program Administration
In brief:
"The course examines the history, theory, and every day practices that surround writing centers and writing programs, including advances in writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines.."
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Dr. Dana Driscoll
