Winter Session

WRT 101: Introductory Writing Workshop

Undergraduate 3 credits

DEC: A1

An introduction to the foundations of writing, offering students a variety of rhetorical strategies and helping them develop creative and critical thinking, fluency, and correctness. Coursework creates ample opportunities for significant practice in reading, writing, and critical analysis. Emphasis on writing as a revision-based process. WRT 101 prepares students for WRT 102 and postsecondary academic writing. This course may be repeated until a satisfactory grade is achieved.

WRT 102: Intermediate Writing Workshop

Undergraduate 3 credits

DEC: A2 SBC: WRT

A study of strategies for extended academic writing assignments including critical analysis, argument or point of view, and multi-source, college-level research essays. Students continue to develop rhetorical awareness, analytical proficiency, and academic research skills. At the end of the course students submit a minimum of 3,000 words of finished college-level forms of writing, with at least 1,500 words of that consisting of researched argument. This course may be repeated until a satisfactory grade is achieved.

WRT 302: Critical Writing Seminar

Undergraduate 3 credits

DEC: G SBC: HFA+

A writing seminar, with rotating historical, political, social, literary, and artistic topics suggested by the professors each semester. Frequent substantial writing projects are central to every version of the course. May be repeated for credit as the topic changes.

WRT 303: The Personal Essay

Undergraduate 3 credits

We all have stories to tell about our lives. In this course, we will explore how to tell them through the personal essay, a notoriously slippery and flexible form that we will engage by writing our own personal essays, as well as by reading and responding to writers who work in that genre. Students will also prepare a personal statement for their application to graduate or professional school, or for another academic or professional opportunity.