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Course Information
The University Writing Program Offers…Courses that help you improve and expand on your powers of written expression. These courses are tailored to help you be a better writer, not only in your major, but in your professional and personal life, as well. Don’t shortchange yourself. Make the most of your university education. Check out our courses and “get it in writing.”
General Education Courses
WRTG 1010 Introduction to Academic Writing (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 1010 placement. Fulfills WR1 requirement. To be taken during Freshman year.
Students learn to read and write rhetorically, develop and support claims, and produce and evaluate writing in collaboration with peers. Course readings and assignments emphasize writing for diverse purposes and disciplines.
WRTG 2010 Intermediate Writing (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 1010 OR WRTG 2010 placement. Fulfills WR2 requirement. To be taken during Freshman year.
Writing in undergraduate academic contexts. Students practice analytical and persuasive writing that addresses various academic audiences in a research university. Emphasis on writing for learning, textual analysis, writing from research, and collaborative writing.
Upper Division CW Courses
WRTG 3011 Writing in the Arts and Humanities (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Prepares students for professional and public careers in the Arts and Humanities by emphasizing reading and writing arguments and the kinds of writing needed in further study and executive positions: summaries, analyses, proposals, research notes, reports, and reviews. Includes collaborative projects, electronic writing, instruction in revision and editing, and exploratory writing to discover ideas.
WRTG 3012 Writing in the Social Sciences (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Designed to facilitate thinking and writing in the social sciences. Focuses on using sources to develop critical thinking on issues, forming one's own position about disciplinary problems, and creating arguments using rhetorical conventions associated with specific disciplines.
WRTG 3014 Scientific Writing (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Designed to help students in the sciences develop the skills needed for scientific research and communication. Provides students with the opportunity to write in the variety of forms that they are likely to encounter in their professional lives (i.e. memos, proposals, reports, presentations) in a scientific context.
WRTG 3015 Professional/Technical Writing (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Prepares students for professional practice by emphasizing problem solving in organizational contexts, writing for multiple audiences, and writing with visual and numerical data. Includes collaborative projects. Service learning option.
WRTG 3016 Business Writing (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Prepares Business majors for writing in the business world. Emphasizes argumentation and linguistic precision.
WRTG 3510 Grammar and Stylistics (3)
Cross listed as ESL 3510, LING 3510. Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Examines common grammatical and stylistic problems from a rhetorical and functional perspective.
WRTG 4080 Nonfiction Environmental Writing (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Meets with WRTG 6080. Engages students to write about contemporary environmental problems from a variety of genres. In particular, creative/ecocritical, natural history/science, and public/advocacy writing are emphasized. Students will learn to think critically and with nuance about environmental issues and convey that information in its complexity.
WRTG 4200 Writing Popular Nonfiction (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills CW requirement
Focuses on popular nonfiction addressed to a wider audience. Students practice a select set of genres such as travel, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, food, domestics, science, technology, personal philosophy and religion.
Other Upper Division Courses
WRTG 3600 Grammatical Writing and Editing (1.5)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010
This 8 week workshop course introduces students to various methods of identifying weaknesses in their individual writing and teaches them how to correct them. the goal of the course is to help students learn to become better editors of their writing in order to improve the quality of their prose.
WRTG 3900 Literacy Studies: Reading, Writing, Identity and Class (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills HF requirement
Meets with ENGL 3690. History and theory of literacy, including scholarship on literacy and schooling, intercultural communication, and literacy in the workplace.
WRTG 4010 Writing for International Audiences (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060. Fulfills IR requirement.
Prepares students to write for culturally and linguistically diverse audiences for various purposes. Emphasizes linguistic and rhetorical considerations in print and electronic texts. Focuses on critical appreciation of English as an international language.
WRTG 4030 Visual Rhetoric (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060.
Students learn theories of visual rhetorical criticism, and examine different strategies for integrating words and images, and other multimedia elements. they learn to employ principles of effective document design and visual argument, as wellas practice strategies for design and composition of new media texts.
WRTG 4040 Writing for Electronic Media (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060.
Practice in composing mixed text, graphic, sound, video, animation, hypermedia. Focuses on strategies that fit traditional and electronic composition.
WRTG 4060 Writing and the Public Sphere (3)
Prerequisite: WRTG 2010 OR ESL 1060.
Students learn to recognize common genres of public writing, consider the historic roles of these genres in public decision-making and community organizing, and examine ways that new technologies are changing the writing landscape for citizens and advocates.
WRTG 4910 Independent Readings in Rhetoric, Discourse and Writing ( 1 to 2)
Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.