Adam Ellwanger, PhD, Graduate Director
S1050, 713-226-5577, ellwangera@uhd.edu
This graduate certificate program is designed to help prepare students to teach undergraduate-level course work in composition. The required 18 graduate semester credit hours are offered through the Rhetoric and Composition program. The curriculum requires a set of courses that are immediately relevant to teaching college writing in Texas.
Admission
Admission is competitive and selective. Applicants must demonstrate that they possess the abilities, interests, and qualities necessary to successfully complete the program and the potential to contribute to the fields of rhetoric and composition pedagogy.
Applicants seeking admission will provide the following application materials for review by the Graduate Curriculum Committee:
- Completed application at www.applytexas.org.
- Official transcript(s) that document a bachelor-degree conferral and the final 60 semester credit hours (or more) of undergraduate coursework. Applicants who have completed graduate-level courses must also provide graduate transcript(s) in addition to the abovementioned undergraduate documentation. Personal application statement (see guidelines on degree page at www.applytexas.org).
- A 10 to 15 page sample of the author’s academic writing (no co-authored pieces will be accepted).
- Test of English as a Foreign Language scores if applicant graduated from a university at which English is not the native language (minimum score of 550 with section scores of 50 or higher).
The Graduate Curriculum Committee will not review a candidate’s application until the file contains all of the items listed above.
