An applied linguist, Michelle (Winn) Baptiste has taught in College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley since 2002. She specializes in teaching diverse classes of developing writers. Her passion is supporting students to cultivate their own unique voices -- a repertoire of voices they can access as they write across genres. She enjoys including interviews and other hands-on research in her classes. In her own research to earn her MA in English as a Second Language from University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), she observed 64 US naturalization interviews and continues to be engaged in...
Interested in teaching English to multilingual students abroad or in the US? Want to learn more about teaching and learning English? Set yourself apart from others applying for positions or promotions: Earn a certificate -- all online! Program Overview
College Writing Programs offers a certificate that can be earned by taking five of the following courses.
You can take all the courses in one summer, or you can spread them out over two or more summers. Even if you aren’t pursuing a certificate, you are welcome to join any of these classes...
There are two writing requirements that students must satisfy to graduate: Entry-Level Writing, and Reading & Composition.
In addition to courses that satisfy the Reading & Composition requirement, CWP offers courses that satisfy various other requirements.
Entry-Level Writing
The UC Entry-Level Writing requirement is a University-wide writing requirement. All students entering the University of California as freshmen must demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling this requirement. Fulfillment of this requirement is a prerequisite to enrolling in...
