ENGCOMP M495ITeaching Preparation Seminar: Writing for Engineers
English Composition · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
(Same as Engineering M495I.) Limited to graduate students. Required of all teaching assistants for Engineering writing courses not exempt by appropriate departmental or program training. Training and mentoring, with focus on composition pedagogy, assessment of student writing, guidance of revision process, and specialized writing problems that may occur in engineering writing contexts. Practical concerns of preparing students to write course assignments, marking and grading essays, and conducting peer reviews and conferences.
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 M495I
- ENGCOMP M495JSupervised Teaching of Writing for Engineers
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.