Eligibility and Requirements

Units required for the certificate: 18*
Candidates must have an overall GPA of 3.0 in courses submitted for the certificate.

*Employment as a Teaching Associate (TA) in the English department at Sacramento State may be substituted for ENGL 410E, reducing total number of coursework units to 15.

Applicants for the Certificate Program in Teaching Composition must have completed all requirements for eligibility for any English graduate program.

A. Required Courses (12 units)

• ENGL 195A: Writing Center Theory and Practice: Internships OR
  ENGL 410A: Internship: Tutoring English
• ENGL 220A: Teaching College Composition
• ENGL 220C: Topics in Composition Studies
• ENGL 410E: Teaching Basic Writing: Internship OR
  Teaching Associateship in English at Sacramento State

B. Electives (6 units)

Select two of the following:

• ENGL 110J: Traditional Grammar and Standard Usage
• ENGL 110Q: English Grammar for ESL Teachers
• ENGL 120-series course (exclusive of ENGL 120A)
• ENGL 125B: Writing and the Young Writer
• ENGL 125E: Academic Reading and Writing for Second Language Students
• ENGL 215A: Reading/Vocabular Acquisition
• ENGL 215B: ESL Writing/Composition
• ENGL 215C: Pedagogical Grammar for TESOL
• ENGL 220-series course (exclusive of ENGL 220A and ENGL 220C)
• ENGL/EDTE 225C: Theoretical Issues in Adult Literacies
• ENGL 410B: Internship: ESL Tutoring
• ENGL 410L: Internship in Teaching Adult Reading

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE WRITING PROGRAM
COORDINATOR:

Professor Amy Heckathorn