2023 - 2024 Catalog

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Develops basic writing skills such as sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation used in paragraph structure. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.Prerequisites: Suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Emphasizes basic grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraph development necessary for effective college-level writing. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.Prerequisites: Pass WR 90 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Develops the students' critical thinking skills and emphasizes basic competence in grammar, mechanics, and sentence structure, with particular attention to unified writing, and coherent essays. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.Prerequisites: Pass WR 95 with a C- or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Engages students in the study and practice of critical thinking, reading, and writing. The course focuses on analyzing and composing across varied rhetorical situations and in multiple genres. Students will apply key rhetorical concepts flexibly and collaboratively throughout their writing and inquiry processes.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a grade of "C-" or better, or suitable writing placement exam score.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Builds on concepts and processes emphasized in WR 121Z, engaging with inquiry, research, and argumentation in support of students' development as writers. The course focuses on composing and revising in research-based genres through the intentional use of rhetorical strategies. Students will find, evaluate, and interpret complex material, including lived experience; use this to frame and pursue their own research questions; and integrate material purposefully into their own compositions.Prerequisites: Pass WR 121 with a "C-" or better.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

Assists students in using successful steps for the research process, including formulating research proposals, using effective search strategies, analyzing and evaluating sources, and demonstrating mastery of documentation. Emphasis is on writing a lengthy research paper which will support an argumentative thesis using appropriate rhetorical strategies, applicable evidence, and effective language.Prerequisites: Pass WR 122 with a "C-" or better.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Introduces students to producing instructive, informative, and persuasive technical/professional documents aimed at well-defined and achievable outcomes. The course focuses on presenting information using rhetorically appropriate style, design, vocabulary, structure, and visuals. Students can expect to gather, read, and analyze information and to learn a variety of strategies for producing accessible, usable, reader-centered deliverable documents that are clear, concise, and ethical.Prerequisites: Pass WR 122 with a "C-" or better.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Explores reading and writing some of the major varieties of imaginative, or "creative", writing. Focus: reading and writing short fiction.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Explores the reading and writing of three of the major varieties of imaginative, or "creative", writing. Focus: reading and writing creative nonfiction.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Explores the reading and writing of three of the major varieties of imaginative, or "creative", writing. Focus: reading and writing poetry.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.