Graduate Course Schedule
Please note that several courses require permits to enroll; 6620, 6973, 6980 and 6983 and all electives require your coordinator's approval. Course offerings are subject to change, and students are urged to check the University's semester schedule and consult their coordinator in addition to these schedules.
Note: This schedule of classes is subject to change. We encourage you to print this schedule to help you plan your coursework; however, you should check the schedule each semester for any changes. The graduate coordinators will also inform you of updates to the schedule via the ENGMA listserv, so make sure to check your CSUSB email account regularly.
MA in English and Writing Studies Courses AY 2025-2026:
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MA in English and Writing Studies Schedule AY 2024-2025
Fall 2024
Monday 5:30-8:15pm
6620 Sites of Praxis - Online Synchronous [Cavallaro]
6190 Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition [Hyon]
Tuesday 5:30-8:15pm
6120 Contemporary Composition and Discourse Theory - Online Synchronous [Fernandez]
6510 Seminar in a Literary Topic: Satire and Subversion [Andersen]
Wednesday 5:30-8:15pm
6600 Approaches to Teaching Writing [Rowan]
6973 Thesis
6983 Comprehensive Exam Preparation and Completion - Online Synchronous [Hall]
Thursday 5:30-8:15pm
6150 Discourse, Cognition, and Society [Adebayo]
6330 Seminar in Rhetorics [Cavallaro]
Monday/Wednesday
(9:00-10:15am) 5150 Nathanael West and the Modernist Gaze on Hollywood [Moran]
(4:00-5:15pm) ENG 5240 Sociolinguistics [Hyon]
Tuesday/Thursday
(2:30-3:45pm) 5010 Media Performance Practicum: Transmedia Storytelling
TR (Hybrid) Classroom + Synchronous Online [Hanson]
(2:30-3:45pm) 5130 Prose of Inquiry & Interrogation: Intro to Creative Nonfiction & Prose Poetry
(Hybrid) Classroom + Synchronous Online [Peñaredondo]
(10:30-11:45am) 5150 “Out West” Intersectional Literary Perspectives of the American West [Ovalle Perez]
Spring 2025
Monday 5:30-8:15pm
6580 Multimodal Writing and the Public Sphere - Online Synchronous [Cavallaro]
6620 Sites of Praxis - Online Synchronous [Hall]
Tuesday 5:30-8:15pm
6260 TESL Methods [Adebayo]
6510 Seminar in a Literary Topic: Banned Books [Smith]
6973 Thesis
6983 Comprehensive Exam Preparation and Completion - Online Synchronous [Hall]
5300 Creative Nonfiction - Online Synchronous [Peñaredondo]
Wednesday 5:30-8:15pm
6090 Cultures of Research in English & Writing Studies - Online Synchronous [Girshin]
6120 Contemporary Composition and Discourse Theory [Rowan]
ENG 6590 Approaches to Teaching College-Level English Literature [Marshall]
Thursday 5:30-8:15pm
6000 Critical Approaches to Literature [C. Luck]
6570 Seminar in Teaching Writing [Cavallaro]
Monday/Wednesday
(4:00-5:15pm) 5230 Grammar and Discourse [Hyon]
(5:30-6:45pm) 5150 Senior Seminar in Literature: Dark Academia - Online Synchronous [Garascia]
(10:30-11:45am) 5260 Phonetics and Phonology - Online Synchronous [Escobedo]
Tuesday/Thursday
(2:30-3:45pm) 5100 Teaching English in the Secondary Schools - Classroom+Synchronous Online [Girshin]
(2:30-3:45pm) 5150 Senior Seminar in Literature: Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel [Andersen]
(10:30-11:45am) 5260 Phonetics and Phonology [Escobedo]