What is the Writing Intensive Program?
It is a program in which individual academic departments do the job that the English Department should have done. In order to satisfy this requirement (and it must be satisfied in order to graduate), students must have credit for four writing intensive (WI) courses. Two of these four course must be upper level WI courses within the major or designed for the degree plan. Currently, the Department of Social Sciences has three such courses: HIST 440 (Historical Methods) for history majors and POLS 308 (International Politics) and POLS 490 (Political Science Capstone Course) for political science majors. More courses for history will be added shortly. The remaining WI requirement should be met through general education courses and should be Freshman Composition.
