This article describes LIT 730: Teaching Composition, a three-credit graduate seminar in American University's Department of Literature for master's-degree students interested in teaching composition. The Literature Department offers both an MA in Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing, and attracts applicants with a flexible "teaching concentration" option as part of their four-semester MA and five-semester MFA course work. The seminar functions as both a course in Composition Studies and an introduction to pedagogy for fifteen graduate students each fall. The author shares how she redesigned LIT 730 in order to lead students more explicitly toward thinking like teachers. (Contains 1 note.)