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  • MENG 6010: Intro to Graduate Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    Students will learn research methods and methodologies that will allow them to produce publishable, sophisticated pieces of academic prose of the kind expected of professional academics. Students will compose abstracts, conference paper proposals, annotated bibliographies, and surveys of scholarship. Students will explore academic databases extensively and learn to evaluate rigorously other scholars' work. Students will be encouraged to submit their work in the class to journals, conferences, or collections of essays. Students should take this course within their first year of study and focus their research on topics that may support future work on a thesis or project. Required in first or second semester.
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  • MENG 6030: Studies Literary Theory/Critic

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    Students will study influential works in literary theory--potentially ranging from Plato's REPUBLIC to Gayatri Spivak's groundbreaking feminist studies to Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicist studies to Homi Bhabha's postcolonial analyses--paying specific attention to the influence of these theories on English studies.
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  • MENG 6100: Literary Curriculum Design

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    This course explores theory and research in curriculum design in the field of teaching literature and literacy. With the intention of preparing teachers to design intentional, equitable curricula that serves secondary students in grades 7 - 12 grade, this course also has pragmatic implications for teaching at the collegiate level. Through surveying multiple learning and educational theories related to curriculum design, this course promotes intellectual, well-paced, and purposeful teaching in the discipline of English.
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  • MENG 6110: Writing for Teachers

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    Designed primarily for in-service teachers, this course explores the most current research and theory concerning the teaching of writing and applies it to issues in the secondary classroom.
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  • MENG 6120: Young Adult Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    This course explores young adult literature through three critical lenses: authorship, readership, and pedagogy. This course examines theory, research, and practice in publishing, reading, and teaching young adult literature. With an explicit focus on diverse and inclusive books, this course prepares scholars to evaluate young adult literature across multiple genres, contexts, and purposes. Prerequisite:    MED 6050
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  • MENG 6130: Theories of Rhet and Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    This course is an intensive study of rhetoric and writing theory. Selected works of major composition and rhetorical theorists will be examined and historicized within a survey of the teaching of academic writing from antiquity to the present.
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  • MENG 6140: Foundations of PTW

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    This course will study the theoretical foundations and scholarly practices of professional and technical writing and communication. The course will examine the major ideas of those who practice professional and technical writing and the main values and practices of the field.
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  • MENG 6150: Grant Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    This class covers advanced studies in the grant writing process. Class will examine the processes of formulating legible questions and developing meaningful partnerships and move toward experience in taking action and member checking. Students in this class will master contemporary theories of audience and genre while learning action research theories of change.
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  • MENG 6210: Teaching Literature, Literacy

    3.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    This course explores the most current research and theory in literature, literacy, and language as it applies to teaching in secondary English classrooms. This course explores culturally sustaining pedagogical practices that affirm adolescents' knowledge and use of language.
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  • MENG 6230: Wasatch Range Summer Institute

    1.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Weber State University

    This course is designed to follow the National Writing Project model. The four-week Invitational Institute is for inservice teachers nominated by their school district or their peers. It is designed to develop leadership skills in those teachers to enable them to impact the quality of writing instruction in their individual schools and district. It is also designed to develop teacher leadership for the Wasatch Range Writing Project. The One Week Open Institute is open to any inservice teacher wishing to improve writing instruction in his/her classroom. Can be repeated once up to eight (8) credit hours.
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