All courses are four credits unless otherwise noted. Teaching Freshman Writing Survey and analysis of current composition theories and the study of teaching methods and assignment and syllabus preparation.
Students report regularly in class on their responses to the texts they read.
They also observe and participate in ongoing freshman composition classes. At the end of the semester they produce a detailed critical appraisal of what they have read and discussed, along with a full prospectus describing the course they may go on to teach. Poetry Workshop In-class discussion of original poems. Students are required to send their work out to magazines. Fiction Workshop Fundamental aspects of fiction for students who have not yet written successful short stories.