ENGCOMP 495CTeaching Preparation Seminar: First-Year Composition
English Composition · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to graduate students. Required of all teaching assistants prior to teaching English Composition 3 courses and open to students seeking Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy. Focus on composition pedagogy, writing course design, assessment of student writing, and specialized problems that may occur in teaching English Composition 3.
S/U grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ENGCOMP 495C
- ENGCOMP 495DSupervised Teaching of First-Year Composition
- ENGCOMP 495SSupervised Summer Teaching of Language and Composition
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.