Writing Proficiency Courses

(one course) Students generally fulfill this requirement during the fall or spring of their first year.

Many students find it helpful to take a W course in field that engages them; they discover they enjoy writing, and make more progress, when the course topic is one they especially want to explore. All W courses fulfill a Sophia Program requirement and provide the opportunity to earn the Basic W.

Courses that meet the Writing Proficiency requirement:

(The courses listed below also fulfill an LO1 requirement.)

COMM 103W Introduction to Communication (CP) (WV for CRN 71869 only)4
COMM 257W Introduction to Journalism (HP)4
ENLT 151W Introduction to Literature: Animals, Monsters, Ghosts (HL, WV)4
ENLT 151W Introduction to Literature: Utopian and Dystopian Literature (HL, WV)4
ENLT 151W Introduction to Literature: Inherited Tales (HL, WV) Half of tandem with RLST 101W3.5
ENLT 151W Introduction to Literature: Telling Time - Narratives of Memory and Anticipation (HL, WV)4
ENLT 151W Introduction to Literature: Women and Embodiment: Disability, Medicine and Feminism (HL, WV)4
ENWR 202W Introduction to Creative Writing (CP)4
HIST 103W World Civilization I (HH)4
HIST 201W United States History to 1865 (HH, WV)4
HUST 197W Myth, Legend, and History (HP, CTS, WV, GL, SR)4
POSC 151W Political Issues (SSI, CTS)4
RLST 101W Introducing Religious Studies (RTI, IC) Half of tandem with ENLT 151W: Inherited Tales3.5