The IU Online Graduate Certificate in Language and Literature provides training in the core principles of writing and literature. As a student in this program, you learn to teach students how to craft sound arguments using close attention to logic, context, and audience. You also develop a fluency with the current debates, schools, and theories of writing instruction. 

Specific areas of focus include:

• Contemporary theory on the pedagogy of composition and literature
• Linguistic structures and history of the English language 
• Reading strategies and literary analysis, with attention to close reading, style, form, genre, and rhetorical practices 
• Approaches to composition and writing instruction, including the identification and evaluation of sources, use of evidence, generation of ideas, and the development and organization of argument 
• Fostering discussion and developing presentation skills in a seminar setting
• Developing archival research skills and facility with electronic resources
• Developments, trends, and frontiers in the digital humanities

This 100 percent online, consortial program is taught by IU Bloomington, IUPUI, IU East, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, IU South Bend, and IU Southeast.

Of special interest to dual-credit and community college instructors needing to meet higher learning commission standards

The stand-alone Certificate in Language and Literature provides the requisite number of discipline-specific graduate credits for those who already hold a master’s degree. Students who need both the discipline-specific coursework and a master’s degree will take the additional English graduate classes required to earn a master’s in English.  

Your IU Online Graduate Certificate in Language and Literature prepares you for such careers as:

• Composition and/or literature dual-credit teachers (high school)
• Composition and/or literature instructor (community college)