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Teaching PortfolioOne of the unique strengths that each of our graduate students enjoys on the job market is the depth and diversity of their teaching portfolios. Rather than serving as a grader or an assistant to a professor's class, the courses that our graduate students teach are emphatically their own: they design the syllabi, choose the reading lists, set the calendar, create the assignments, and do the grading. In the first semester, our graduate students are required to take Engl. 688 (Methods of Teaching Composition), which prepares them for their entry into the composition classroom. Freshman composition is the standard course assignment, but our graduate students also have the opportunity to teach a theme-based version of this course for the University Honors Program, and they also have the chance to teach some upper-division writing courses. We also guarantee each graduate student the opportunity to teach at least one literature class related to the student's area of specialization. In order to prepare students for teaching in the literature classroom, we require that they complete a Graduate Apprenticeship in Teaching Literature. This involves "shadowing" a faculty mentor for a semester in a literature course, from syllabus design to the end of the semester. Among the literature courses that our students have taught are survey courses in British and American Literature, Introduction to Shakespeare, Biblical and Classical Literature, and Approaches to Literature. |
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