2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Nov 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue

Writing, BA


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Requirements for the Major


Requirements for the major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:

First Year


Sophomore Year


Spring Term


Junior Year


Fall Term


  • PL 200-Level or TH 200-Level Course 
  • WR 300-Level Elective * 
  • Social Science Core 
  • Elective 
  • Elective

Spring Term


  • WR 300-Level Elective *
  • Fine Arts Core
  • Elective
  • Elective
  • Elective

Senior Year


Fall Term


  • WR 300-Level Elective *
  • WR 300-Level Elective *
  • Ethics Core
  • Elective
  • Elective

Spring Term


  • WR 300-Level Elective *
  • WR 400 Senior Seminar: New Writers *
  • Math Core
  • Elective
  • Elective

Key:


* Required for major.

Notes:


  1. WR 100  is the prerequisite for most upper-level writing courses and must be taken in the first year. (Honors students fulfill this prerequisite through HN 210 .)
  2. All WR 300-level courses include a course-appropriate research component.
  3. Students must complete the diversity core requirement through a designated diversity core, major, or elective course (see Diversity Core Requirement  under Curriculum and Policies).

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