The first course in a two-course sequence designed for students who desire more time, practice, and support to complete the first-year writing requirement. Students will practice drafting and researching strategies and gain confidence in their writing and research skills. Students develop fluency and master conventions of standard academic writing. WRT 120 and WRT 130 fulfill Foundations - Writing. Offered fall semester.
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online
Continuation of WRT 120. Students learn strategies for research-based writing. They practice writing processes to build well-supported arguments and incorporate sources. Students must earn a grade of C (not C-) or better to fulfill the Foundations - Writing requirement. WRT 120 and WRT 130 or WRT 150 are prerequisites to SWS courses. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: WRT 120.
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
Students practice different kinds of academic writing and learn strategies for rhetorical research-based writing. They practice writing processes to build well-supported arguments and incorporate sources. Students must receive a grade of C (not C-) or better to fulfill the Foundations-Writing requirement. Fulfillment of the general education Foundations - Writing is a prerequisite for any SWS course.
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
This course serves as an introduction to professional writing, providing the skills necessary for writing, presenting, and interacting in professional contexts. This course introduces students to some of the most common genres in professional writing and emphasizes the importance of audience and context for composing effective professional documents. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of general education Foundations - Writing.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Online
Students will identify and analyze stylistic techniques and the rhetorical effects of style in writing. The course will help students discover and examine the intersections among style, genre, historical and cultural contexts, and technology. Students will also experiment with stylistic techniques for different audiences, purposes, genres, and effects. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of general education Foundations - Writing.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Fall 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Introduction to the theory and practice of various forms of creative writing. Students may write poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction and also read literature in each genre. Fulfills Foundations - Arts. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of general education Foundations - Writing.
This course provides an introduction to electronic layout, design, and typographic principles, as well as the technical foundation and practical experience to produce documents for print production. Students will work from a foundation in rhetoric and basic graphic design principles to write, design, and produce a range of document types. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of general education Foundations - Writing.
Winter 2024 - Online
Designed to enable students to sharpen their writing skills and begin exploring writing form and styles specific to their academic interests. Sections listed by academic area in the class schedule. Students must receive a grade of C (not C-) or better.
Training in communication skills for business and the professions. Assignments cover varieties of information management, including handling research, gathering data, writing reports, manuals, directions, and correspondence, and making oral presentations. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of general education Foundations - Writing.
This course prepares students for the challenges of writing in the global context. Through analysis and practice, students will learn to write and design documents that respond to the needs of local and global audiences in the 21st century workplace. Focus is on communication competence and the cultural dimension of language and design. Part of the Globalization Issue. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Winter 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
This course helps students understand the theory, principles, and research of effective professional writing in international contexts while studying abroad. Students will address and solve communication problems typically encountered by international non governmental organizations through the writing and researching of professional writing genres (grants, proposals, brochures, and other workplace documents). Offered spring/summer semester of even years. Prerequisites: WRT 150 and instructor permission.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Hybrid
Examines sports and culture from a range of perspectives in a range of genres, including those related to journalistic forms, commentary, the personal essay, fiction, and poetry. The theory and practice of these genres will be emphasized through student writing. Offered spring/summer semester. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of general education Foundations - Writing.
Student-initiated supervised work experience in potential career interest area, planned with internship coordinator and worksite supervisor. Students spend 45 field hours per semester for each credit in addition to a weekly academic seminar. The internship must be at least 50 percent writing/editing. Credit is awarded when student, coordinator, and supervisor complete evaluations. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: WRT 200, WRT 210, WRT 219, WRT 253, writing major, junior standing, minimum 2.75 major GPA, and internship coordinator permission. Writing minors may only take this course with internship coordinator permission.
