Program for Writing Across Campus Courses

 The mission of the Program for Writing Across Campus is to offer discipline-linked writing courses that create small intellectual communities focused on students' development as writers. Through personalized instruction, including conferencing over writing in progress, we partner with our students to help them cultivate disciplinary and rhetorical knowledge, and confidence in their communication skills and practices. We celebrate the different communities and audiences that students want to engage with, and we respect their aims as composers. We see collaborative engagement over context-specific writing as an important means of fostering students' academic, professional, and personal success.

Linked Courses

Linked PWAC courses are connected with large lecture courses in all kinds of disciplines, ranging from Art History to Biology. Students enroll in both courses simultaneously. PWAC courses engage some of the concepts, texts, and methodologies from the linked lecture course as the basis for assignments that help students deepen their learning through writing. Recent PWAC offerings include writing links with the following large lecture courses:

• AES 150, AAS 372, AIS 102, ANTH 213, ARCH 150, ASTR 150, BIOL 180, BIOL 200, CLAS 430, ENVIR 100, FISH 250, GWSS 200, HSERV 100, HSTAA 105, HSTAA 231, JSIS 200, LSJ 200, MUSIC 120, NUTR 200, PSYCH 101, PUBPOL 201.

Unlinked Courses

Unlinked courses are not linked with specific lecture courses, but are still grounded within a disciplinary domain, such as the Humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences. Like the linked courses, unlinked courses offer students the opportunity to think about how knowledge is built in certain fields of study, and practice their writing in those disciplinary contexts. Since they are not tied to a particular lecture course, however, they may offer a bit more scheduling flexibility for students.