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Department of Education
Emphasis in Teaching and Learning
Specialization in Language, Literacy, and Composition Studies
The Language, Literacy and Composition (LLCS) Specialization is housed within the Teaching and Learning Emphasis. Key challenges to be addressed by participants in this specialization are:
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Understanding and enhancing language, literacy, and composition practices.
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Assessing learning and learners of language, literacy, and composition.
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Understanding and developing literacy processes of learners, programs, and communities.
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Understanding and improving methods of instruction in language, literacy, and composition.
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Understanding and enhancing the relationship between schooled literacy and literacy in non-school settings.
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Understanding and responding to societal and institutional supports and constraints on literacy and language learning in K-12 and other educational settings.
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Understanding and supporting diversity in language, literacy, and composition practice and education.
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Developing practices and programs to prepare and support language, literacy, and composition educators.
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Understanding, articulating, and improving the relationships between K-12 and post-secondary education.
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Understanding the transformative potential of technology on language, literacy, and composition practices and providing leadership for the use of technology to advance language, literacy, and composition learning.
We will address these challenges as applied in a variety of sites of education and practice, including pre-kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, community colleges, universities, business and industry, institutional and professional settings, adult and senior education, community programs, and distance education. People obtaining degrees in the language, literacy, and composition specialization of Teaching and Learning will be qualified for positions in literacy education and literacy studies in schools of education, in teacher education programs, in programs in college composition and rhetoric, in cultural studies of literacy, and in administration and policy at all levels of literacy education.
Faculty Associated with the Specialization in Language, Literacy, and Composition Studies
Courses for the Specialization in Language, Literacy, and Composition Studies
LLCS students should fulfill the requirements for the Teaching and Learning Emphasis. For more information about the courses below, use the courses link on the upper right of this page. The following courses should be of particular interest to LLCS students:
Literacy and Language Theory and Studies:
- ED 207 Sociolinguistics in Education
- ED 210D Seminar in Cultural Perspectives of Education:Theory and Practice Second Language Literacy
- ED 210D Seminar in Cultural Perspectives of Education: Literacy as Print Culture
- ED 210E Foundations of Sociocultural Learning Theory
- ED 210F Cultural Psychology
- ED 270H Language, Culture & Learning
Teaching and Learning in Educational Settings:
- ED 202D Writing Across the Curriculum and in the Disciplines
- ED 208 Applied Rhetoric, Poetics, Linguistics
- ED 210A Human Memory and Cognitive Processes
- ED 234 Linguistics for Teachers
- ED 258A Seminar in Curriculum: Reading
- ED 270A Classrooms as Cultures
Language Socialization, Acquisition, and Development:
- ED 202C The Development of Writing Abilities
- ED 202E Language Socialization, Gender & Schooling
- ED 209A Seminar in Language Development
Language Diversity:
- ED 202A Bilingual Language Development
- ED 210D Seminar in Cultural Perspectives of Education: Theory and Practice Second Language Literacy
- ED 270C Race and Ethnicity in American Education
- ED 270D Seminar in Cross-cultural Education
Research Methods and Issues:
- ED 221A Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
- ED 221C Observation & Small Group Analysis
- ED 221D Classroom Ethnography
- ED 221E Analyzing Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Data
- ED 221G Textual Analysis
- ED 221H Research Methods in Writing and Writing Processes
- ED 224A Discourse Analysis
- ED 224B Narrative Analysis
- ED 253D Seminar in Teaching & Learning
- ED 274 Proseminar in Language, Interaction, and Social Organization
Related Courses in Other Departments:
- Eng. 125 History of Literate Culture
- Eng. 127 Rhetoric
- Eng. 220 Theories of Composition