University Bulletin (2025-2026)

Writing Intensive

Objectives

The writing intensive requirement teaches writing as a mode of learning, not simply as a way to articulate what is learned. Students become familiar with the conventions and intellectual traditions of the discipline of their major and use writing to acquire knowledge in that discipline.

Learning Goals

Writing Intensive learning goals might include one or more of the following abilities:

• Grasp the specific problem-finding and thesis-defining conventions of a discipline.
• Demonstrate the ability to use the appropriate research practices, using the databases, bibliographies, and documentation conventions of the discipline.
• Write clear, persuasive, and expressive prose in a disciplinary context.
• Recognize how to give and evaluate feedback on written work.

• Demonstrate the ability to use the writing strategies and to write within the genres expected in the relevant academic and professional communities. 
• Demonstrate command of the major discipline's discourse practices, vocabulary, and style.
• Write for a variety of purposes and range of audiences within the discipline.

How to Fulfill the Requirement

The writing intensive requirement will be satisfied as defined in the requirements for each major.

Courses of Instruction

Departments and programs will outline the options available to declared majors in their individual sections of the Bulletin.