Course descriptions for Writing Program

Integrates learning and improvement in reading and writing by exploring texts produced by members of various social, cultural, and academic communities, including students' own writing. Designed to prepare students for college-level reading and writing through understanding of the processes of reading, writing, thinking and oral communication skills; the development of reading, writing and thinking skills; and the experience of reading and writing as problem solving, reasoning, and reflection. Not for baccalaureate credit; however, the course grade will show on student transcripts. (Offered fall and spring semesters).

This course is offered to multilingual/ESL students simultaneously enrolled in GS 200: Politics of Everyday Life. Working with the subject matter of that course, WRT 200 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in social sciences, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.

This course is offered to multilingual/ESL students simultaneously enrolled in BUS 201S: Macro Econ and Comm. Working with the subject matter of that course, WRT 200 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in social sciences, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.

This course is offered to multilingual/ESL students simultaneously enrolled in JAPN306: The Japanese Mind. Working with the subject matter of that course, WRT 206 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in the humanities, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.

This course is offered to multilingual/ESL students simultaneously enrolled in JAPN 308: Japanese Pop Culture. Working with the subject matter of that course, WRT 200 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in the humanities, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.

This course is offered to multilingual/ESL students simultaneously enrolled in SBS 212: US Histories and Politics. Working with the subject matter of that course, WRT 212 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in social sciences, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.