Certificate in Teaching College-Level Writing (22-23 units)
Prerequisites: An acceptable BA or BS from an accredited institution, admission to Graduate School,
ENGL 335 (Rhetoric and Writing) or an equivalent course (this deficiency may be made up during the
first semester of certificate work). A GPA of 3.0 is required for all courses taken for this certificate.
Course #
Course Name
Units
Completed
Will Complete
5 courses required:
ENGL 431
Theory/Practice in Tutor Comp
4.0
ENGL 632
Theories of Literacy
3.0
ENGL 634
Teaching Composition
3.0
ENGL 636
Comp Program Design and Dev.
3.0
ENGL 637
Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
(Prerequisite: Graduate standing, ENGL
335 recommended)
3.0
1 course selected from:
ENGL 470
Theory and Practice of 2
nd
Language
Acquisition (Prerequisites: ENGL 371)
3.0
EDSL 610
Foreign/Second Lang. Teaching:
Methods
3.0
ENGL 689T
Internship in Teaching College Engl.
(Prerequisites: ENGL 431 or ENGL 470 for
ESL, or faculty permission)
3.0
1 course selected from:
ENGL 415
Editing Literary Magazines
(Prerequisites: ENGL 220, may be taken
concurrently)
4.0
ENGL 420
Advanced Poetry Writing
(Prerequisites: ENGL 320 or instructor
permission)
4.0
ENGL 421
Adv. Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
(Prerequisites: ENGL 321, or 327, or
instructor permission)
4.0
ENGL 478
Approaches to Reading
3.0
ENGL 631
Literacy as Distributed Cognition
3.0
ENGL 635
Topics in Rhetorical Theory and
History (Prerequisite: Graduate standing,
ENGL 335 recommended)
3.0
*At least a C must be earned in each course in the certificate program.
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I certify that the courses listed above constitute an approved certificate.
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Adv
isor: Erin Kelly, ekkelly@csuchico.edu, Arts & Humanities 234,
(530) 898-6277
Revised 7/2019
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Additional Requirements
A maximum of 3 units of transfer credit may be allowed in the certificate program. A grade-point average
of 3.0 must be earned for courses required for the certificate program. At least a B- must be earned in
each course in the certificate program before the certificate is awarded.
Students accepted into the MA program in English or in Teaching International Languages may also
complete the certificate if they so desire. In this case, courses counted toward the MA may also be
counted toward the certificate.
Teachers who have completed ENGL 530 (Northern California Writing Project, invitational) for six units
may substitute these units for ENGL 431 in the core and one additional elective course.
Revised 4/8/2018