University Writing
There are two components to the writing requirement: the University Writing Seminar and a writing intensive course. All first-year students take a University Writing Seminar, which is offered in conjunction with a University Seminar in Humanistic Inquiries. The purpose of the University Writing Seminar is to introduce students to the conventions of formal writing and rhetoric and to further develop writing skills. Special emphasis is placed on forms of argumentation, analysis, and persuasion. Other areas of attention include critical reading, research skills, proper documentation, and the use of the resources of the University Libraries for research assignments. University Writing Seminars will share some subject matter and written assignments with their linked University seminars.
Writing intensive courses are
upper-level courses that are offered in departments throughout
the University. Normally taken in a student's second or third
year, these courses are based in a specific academic discipline
and require frequent or regular attention to writing and instruction
in the skills of academic writing. In these courses, writing as
a process is respected as an essential component of the academic
content.
The list of courses that satisfy the Writing Intensive requirement changes each year. Courses that satisfy the requirement in a particular semester are designated ìwiî in the course schedule. Consult with the director of the Writing Program if in doubt about whether a course satisfies the requirement in a specific semester.
Courses of Instruction
BCOM 1a Composition
Prerequisite: Placement by the director of University Writing. Enrollment limited to 10 per section. Successful completion of this requirement does NOT satisfy the first-year writing requirement.
A course in the fundamentals of writing, required as a prerequisite to the University Writing Seminar for selected students identified by the Director of University Writing. Several sections will be offered in the fall semester.
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FWS 1a Foundational Writing Seminar
Prerequisite: Placement by the director of University Writing. Enrollment limited to 15. Enrollment restricted to students who already have satisfied the USEM requirement.
A full-credit course for students beyond the freshman year who have yet to meet the graduation requirement otherwise met by completing the University Writing Seminar (see below). As in the University Writing Seminar, the stress is on argumentative and stylistic strategies. Usually offered every year.
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WL 1a University Writing Seminar
Enrollment limited to 20. May yield half-course credit toward rate of work and graduation. Two semester hour credits.
A preparatory course in college writing, with stress on writing sound argumentative essays that demonstrate mechanical and stylistic expertise. This course satisfies the first-year writing requirement. University Writing Seminars are offered in conjunction with University Seminars in Humanistic Inquiries and are limited to first-year students. Each student is automatically enrolled in the University Writing Seminar connected to the particular University Seminar in which he or she enrolls. Offered every semester.
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S = Writing Intensive Courses
African and Afro-American
Studies
AAAS 134b
Novel and Film of the African
Diaspora
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AMERICAN STUDIES
AMST 15a
Writing for the Media
AMST 100a
Classic Texts in the American
Experience: Through the Civil War
AMST 138b
Reporting Contemporary America
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ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 158a
Urban Anthropology
L =
BIOLOGY
BIOL 18b
General Biology Lab
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CLASSICAL STUDIES
CLAS 115b
Topics in Greek and Roman History
L =
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
COML 102a
Love in the Middle Ages
COML 135b
Sexualities and Cinema
L =
ECONOMICS
ECON 58b
Gender and Economics
ECON 74b
Law and Economics
L =
EUROPEAN CULTURAL STUDIES
ECS 100a
European Cultural Studies:
The Proseminar
L =
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
ENG 60b
Writing About the Environment
ENG 144b
The Body as Text: Castiglione
to Locke
ENG 197b
The Political Novel in the
Twentieth Century
L =
FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
FREN 104b
Advanced Language Skills Through
Culture
FREN 106b
Advanced French Composition
FREN 110a
Introduction to French Literature
FREN 122b
The Renaissance
FREN 145a
Topics in French Fiction
L =
GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
GECS 182b
Nietzsche
L =
HELLER SCHOOL
HSSW 540b
Families, Work, and the Changing
Economy
HSSW 549a
Family Policy
L =
HISTORY
HIST 135a
Revolutions in Science
HIST 152b
Salem, 1692
L =
HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY
PROGRAM
HIP 10b
Lyric Poetry and Drawing
L =
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
LAS 100a
Seminar: Topics in Latin American
Studies
L =
LEGAL STUDIES PROGRAM
LGLS 137a
Libel and Defamation, Privacy
and Publicity
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MUSIC
MUS 51b
The Symphony
L =
NEAR EASTERN AND JUDAIC
STUDIES
HBRW 104a
Israeli Films
HBRW 104b
Israeli Theater
HBRW 106b
Advanced Conversation and Writing
Skills
HBRW 107a
The Voices of Jerusalem
HBRW 110a
Introduction to Modern Hebrew
Literature I
HBRW 110b
Introduction to Modern Hebrew
Literature II
HBRW 111a
Advanced Survey of Hebrew and
Israeli Literature I
HBRW 111b
Advanced Survey of Hebrew and
Israeli Literature II
NEJS 139b
Yehuda Amichai and Contemporary
Hebrew Poetry
NEJS 180b
Hebrew Prose in an Era of Revival
L =
NEUROSCIENCE
NPSY 154a
Human Memory
L =
PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 17a
Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 66b
Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
PHIL 136a
Personal Identity
PHIL 168a
Kant
PHIL 172b
Spinoza
L =
PSYCHOLOGY
PSYC 136b
Advanced Topics in Developmental
Psychology
PSYC 152a
Experimental Psychology
NPSY 154a
Human Memory
L =
SOCIOLOGY
SOC 107a
Global Apartheid and Global
Social Movements
SOC 119a
War and Possibilities of Peace
SOC 171a
Women Leaders and Transformation
in Developing Countries
L =
SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SPAN 106b
Spanish Composition, Grammar,
and Stylistics
SPAN 198a
Seminar in Literary and Cultural
Studies
L =
WOMEN'S STUDIES
WMNS 5a
Women in Culture and Society:
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
WMNS 180a
Reading and Writing Autobiography