New Courses in the Writing Program (2009)
Faculty/Staff Meetings: September 16th, 23rd, and 30th
See Meetings and Workshops for more announcements.
Courses
Courses and section #'s for the current or upcoming semester.
New 200- and 300-Level Courses in the Writing Program (2009)
The following is a list of courses offered in our program. WRT 101 and WRT 102 will be offered each semester.
Introductory Writing Workshop: Students in this class are asked to product frequent short papers to develop fluency and correctness. Students will also be introduced to the basic requirements of academic writing. A through C/U grading only. Students may not use the Pass/No credit option. Not for credit in addition to the discontinued EGC 100. Does not satisfy DEC A requirement for students matriculating before Fall 1999. Prerequisite: Placement essay, transfer evaluation, or ESL instructor. Three credits.
Intermediate Writing Workshop–A: This class emphasizes writing for academic purposes. Students learn strategies for extended writing assignments at the university. Short papers and at least two major essays in a variety of academic genres are required. Students will do extensive revision on multiple drafts in a variety of genres, including a researched argument and will be required to submit a final portfolio that must be judged acceptable by their teacher and an outsider reader. A through C/U grading only. The Pass/No credit option may not be used. Not for credit in addition to the discontinued EGC 101. Placement essay or transfer evaluation. Three credits.
Intermediate Writing Workshop–B: Students in this workshop will have the opportunity for in-depth practice of specific types of academic writing, such as analysis, argument, and the research paper. Different sections will have different emphases. See the Program in Writing and Rhetoric bulletin board (L-82) or the current semester WRT course description web page for a list of current offerings. May be repeated once with permission of the director. The Pass/No credit option may not be used. A through C/U grading only. Not for credit in addition to the discontinued EGC 202. Prerequisite: Placement essay or WRT 102. Three credits.
Grammar and Style for Writers
Students will study the aspects of grammar that are most relevant to punctuation and to clear writing, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, phrases, clauses, gerunds, participles, infinites, and complete sentences. Students will also study prose style as a way of achieving rhetorical effectiveness through arranging and rearranging sentence elements. Students, through frequent writing, will learn to apply principles of clarity, concision, and coherence with more consciousness. Sentence imitation, sentence combining, and sentence invention techniques will be used to help students become more flexible in their syntactic fluidity. Several tests and three short papers.
Writing in the Disciplines/ Special Topics: Students will be taught writing in specific academic disciplines through the analysis of texts in appropriate fields to discover discourse conventions. Students produce extended written projects. Different sections emphasize different disciplines. See See the Program in Writing and Rhetoric bulletin board (H-2005) or the current semester WRT course description web page for a list of current offerings. Not for credit in addition to the discontinued EGC 201 or WRT 201. Prerequisites: Completion of D.E.C. Category A. Three credits.
Critical Writing Seminar: Special Topics
Advanced Analysis and Argumentative Writing: Students in this intensive writing course will refine skills appropriate to upper-division work. Content varies: the focus may be on analysis or various intellectual issues, rhetorical strategies, or compositional problems within or across disciplines, but frequent substantial writing projects are central to every version of the course. Not for credit in addition to the discontinued ECG 381, 382. See the Program in Writing and Rhetoric bulletin board (H-2005) or the current semester WRT course description web page for a list of current offerings. Prerequisite: WRT 102 or equivalent by placement or transfer evaluation. Three credits per course.
Theories and Methods of Mentoring Writers: Closely examines the
difficulties implicit in mentoring writers, with special consideration
for the roles of cultural expectations and social dynamics on both the
teaching of writing and writers themselves. In small groups and one-to-one
interactions, students explore theories and practices upon which composition
instruction and writing center work depend. Building on the understanding
that writing is a recursive process (a cycle of planning, drafting, revising,
and editing), students also learn to analyze and problem-solve issues
that become barriers for effective writing and communication. See the
Program in Writing and Rhetoric bulletin board (H-2005) or the current
semester WRT course description web page for a list of current offerings.
Prerequisites: WRT 102 or 103; permission of instructor. Three credits
per course.
Independent Project: Qualified upper-division students may carry out advanced independent work under the supervision of an instructor in the program. May be repeated. Prerequisite: permission of instructor and program director. Three to six credits.
Internship: Students participate in local, state, and national public and private agencies and organizations. May be repeated to a limit of twelve credits. Prerequisites: G.P.A. of 2.5 or higher; permission of instructor and program director. One to six credits, S/U grading.