ENGCOMP 495SSupervised Summer Teaching of Language and Composition

English Composition · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)

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Seminar, 90 minutes. Recommended for all teaching assistants teaching English as a second language, English composition, and Writing II courses during summer. Focus determined on individual basis according to class appointed and may include oral skills pedagogy, composition pedagogy, course design, assessment of student performance, and specialized problems that may occur in intensive summer language and/or composition courses. Supervision during appointment and mentor meetings and reflection on teaching experience following summer appointment.

S/U grading.

When it runs

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisite: course 495A or 495C.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ENGCOMP 495S

  • ENGCOMP 495ATeaching Preparation Seminar: Second Language Learners
  • ENGCOMP 495CTeaching Preparation Seminar: First-Year Composition

2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.