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Show , Spring/Summer 2003 page 7 From the Director: Demystifying the Writing Requirement According to the Office of Undergraduate Studies, the University of Utah's lower-division writing requirement helps to ensure to that students develop the rhetorical skills that will be needed later on in a variety of university courses. Students may bypass the lower-division writing requirement by: • Having an Advanced Placement (AP) level in English of 3, 4 or 5 • Scoring 500 on the CLEP English test • Meeting comparable lower-division writing requirements from other colleges or universities • Having an Associates Degree from a two-year college Students may fulfill the lower-division writing requirement by: • Passing Writing 2010 (placement for new freshmen determined by admissions index) with a C- or better (students placed in Writing 1010 must pass with a C- or better before enrollment in Writing 2010 is permitted). • Completing the following sequence of courses (for students who speak English as a second language), offered by the linguistics program, with a C- or better: ESL 1040,1050,1060 Note: Students without admissions index, those who want to appeal their placement, and those taking ESL may complete a writing placement essay administered by the University Writing Program. Courses meeting the lower-division writing requirement: ESL 1060 (3) Adv Writing for ESL speakers HONOR 2211 (3) Writing in Honors WRTG 2010 (3) Intermediate Writing The upper-division communication/writing requirement provides University students with more advanced instruction in speaking and writing, often directly related to their specific area of study. Courses filling this requirement must be completed with a minimum grade of C- (or higher if required by the department). Individual majors sometimes require specific courses to satisfy this requirement-students may contact their major departments for more information. Sample courses meeting the upper-division communication/ writing requirement: Environment & Behavior Teaching Essentials Advanced Cell Lab Adv Analytical Chem Lab Editing Process Specialty Reporting Interpretive Writing COMM 5580 (4) DANCE 5711 (3) ECON 5080 (3) ENGL 3900 (3) ESL 3510 (3) FCS 3240 (3) GEO 4500 (3) GERON 3005 (3) GNDR 5040 (3) GREEK 4999 (3) LING 3510 (3) MKTG 3020 (3) NURS 3200 (3) PHIL 4110 (3) PHYCS 3680 (3) PSYCH 3420 (3) RUSS 4710 (3) THEAT 3720 (5) WRTG 3400 (3) ARCH 3110 (3) BALLE 5780 (3) BIOL 5215 (2) CHEM 5700 (2) COMM 3600 (4) COMM 4670 (4) COMM 4690 (3) PR Cases & Campaigns Dance History Marxian Economics Intro Critical Theory Grammar and Stylistics Ecology of Family Beliefs Field Methods Race Ethnic Aging Feminist Methodologies Honors Thesis Project Grammar and Stylistics Marketing Management History and Traditions Ancient Greek Philosophy Sci Writing and Speaking Environment & Behavior Survey of 19th Cent Russian Lit History of Theatre Professional Writing To be designated as a new upper-division communication/ writing (C/W) course, the C/W committee requires a syllabus, a proposal explaining how the course meets criteria, and a letter of support from the department chair or director. Every three years, previously approved courses are reviewed to determine if the course still meets C/W criteria. To be reviewed, the committee needs all same materials as for a new course, plus the numerical data from student evaluations of the course for the last three years. The committee meets once each semester, excluding summer, and department chairs receive notice of the due dates for submission of new and reviewed courses about one month prior to the due date. Results of the committee's decisions are communicated by mail to department chairs and submitting instructors, and are posted on the Web in the Undergraduate Bulletin. Some students have taken writing intensive courses on this or another campus that they believe fulfill the C/W requirement. Undergraduate College can assist these students in preparing an appeal of such a course, and these appeals are accepted at any time. The appeals are then submitted to the chair of the committee for review, and are handled by the chair on an individual basis (of course the chair consults other committee members for assistance when the case for appeal is not clear). The criteria and procedures for submitting a course for approval as an upper-division communication/writing course are currently being revised, though not extensively, in time for the spring review. Current procedures and criteria can be found at http://www.ugs.utah.edu/ctle/committees/cw.htm. For more information or for a complete listing of classes meeting the upper-division writing requirement, visit www.ugs.utah.edu. |
