This course fulfills equity, diversity and access requirement for the Preliminary Credential. Please obtain the approval of your credential program advisor before enrolling.

This online course evaluates current technologies and their applications in the TESOL classroom in urban distance learning and in adult TESOL education. Participants learn strategies for overcoming technophobia.

This online course offers an introduction to the history and construction of language and to the basic linguistic concepts of learning a second language.

This course presents an intensive consideration of culture and diversity, impacts on school classrooms and strategies for diversity inclusiveness.

This practical, online introduction for TESOL educators presents methods and strategies for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills to English as Second Language learners.

Response to Intervention is an approach to effectively diagnose and support general education students having difficulties learning. This course explores models and strategies currently employed in California schools.

This course examines the nature of arguments: how to analyze them and assess the soundness of the reasoning they represent.

Learn to harness popular culture to fuel your writing and respond to social and political events.

Focus on a specific project of folio of work in this workshop for poets ready for advanced workshopping and revision.

Learn the basic techniques of poetry writing in this introductory course combining writing exercises and workshopping.

Explore gay men's experiences in a safe, encouraging workshop environment of peers as you craft compelling fiction and nonfiction.

This advanced workshop helps you polish existing essay drafts into powerful pieces suitable for publication.

Turn your memories of travel into powerful explorations of emotional and intellectual journeys.

Get your creative juices flowing with this focused weekend workshop that helps you jump-start work on several new pieces of creative nonfiction writing.

Use real life as a jumping off point for new writing, using activities and techniques that deepen and enrich how the stories are told.

Before an agent ever gets hold of your novel, you must go through numerous revisions to present your best possible effort. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, writing is rewriting, and the story of…

This ambitious workshop guides you to achieve the unthinkable: a novel draft in just 10 weeks.

Get ruthless with your own drafts and discover ways to elevate your writing to its greatest potential in this workshop devoted only to revision techniques.

Approach writing from a variety of perspectives to discover new ideas, techniques, and skills in this workshop for writers of all genres.

Learn how to create writing that triggers emotional responses in your reader. Great for beginning and intermediate writers.