Teaching Reading and Composition
R&C courses are a complex challenge for students and GSIs alike.
reading & composition courses
What Is R&C About?
Where your R&C course fits in the UC Berkeley curriculum, your department, your students’ needs, and your professional development.
Course Design for R&C
A methodical way to turn your course ideas into a well designed set of student learning objectives, activities, and assessments.
The R&C Course Syllabus
Essential elements of an R&C syllabus.
Sample Syllabi for R&C Courses
Use existing R&C syllabi to cultivate ideas for your own.
Engaged Reading
For many lower-division students, reading is a receptive or decoding process. Give them explicit procedures for making reading a critical, creative process.
Leading Generative Discussions
Creative ideas from GSIs for eliciting memorable discussions that help students learn.
Teaching Composition Skills
Brief introduction to some central ideas in composition pedagogy.
Writing in a Genre
Learn how to describe to students what is distinctive about the kinds of papers you will assign in your R&C course.
Assignment Design and Sequencing
Consider the length and complexity of the assignments you give, and sequence them so that students can build from lower-stakes to higher-stakes papers.