WRTG Courses

Written communication courses promote the clear, concise, and effective development and expression of ideas through writing. WRTG courses prepare student writers to use writing to increase knowledge, foster understanding, and/or to promote change in readers’ attitudes or behaviors. Additionally, student writers will hone organizational and analytical skills, clarity, fluency, flexibility, and accuracy in their written communication. Writing represents one of the three UCORE foundational competencies [QUAN, WRTG, COMM – 9 total credits] intended for completion in a student’s first year of study. Students may complete one WRTG course and one COMM course, or may choose to complete two WRTG courses to fulfill their foundational competency in communication (total 6 credits).

Student Learning Outcomes

Students, regardless of major, who successfully complete a [WRTG] course should be able to:

• Compose texts that demonstrate intentional rhetorical choices, including attention to audience, purpose, context, genre, and convention (written communication).
• Use evidence to support and explain claims (information literacy).
• Recognize how and why conventions vary among disciplines and communities (critical thinking).
• Reflect on and apply feedback to increase the effectiveness of written communication (critical thinking).

Revised outcomes approved Spring 2022.

Available WRTG Courses

Course Prefix	Course Number	Course Title	Credits	College	Status
ENGLISH	101	College Composition	3	CAS	Renewed S22
ENGLISH	105	College Composition for Multilingual Writers	3	CAS	Renewed S22
ENGLISH	201	Writing and Research	3	CAS	Renewed S22
ENGLISH	301	Writing and Rhetorical Conventions	3	CAS	Renewed S22
ENGLISH	365	Proposal Writing	3	CAS	Approved F20
ENGLISH	402	Technical and Professional Writing	3	CAS	Renewed F22
ENGLISH	403	Technical and Professional Writing (ESL)	3	CAS	Submit for renewal S24
PHIL	200	Critical Thinking and Writing	3	CAS	Submit for renewal S24

View WRTG courses in the WSU catalog.