Writing Program
166 Kresge College
(831) 459-2431
humwww.ucsc.edu/writing/index.html
Program Description
The campuswide Writing Program offers a range of introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses designed to help students at every level of proficiency become more competent and confident writers of prose. The courses offered through this program teach skills of grammar and organization and strategies of invention, composition, and editing. The courses approach writing as one of the most important ways we have of making discoveries about ourselves and the world around us and of communicating these insights to others.
The Writing Program administers the writing component of the campus general education requirements and the Subject A requirement, and advises students about ways to fulfill these requirements. It offers courses that satisfy both parts of the general education writing requirement and tutorials that prepare students for the writing placement exam. Writing instructors in each college participate in that college’s core course and counsel its students about their writing. In addition, each college has a writing center where any student can receive help with any writing project.
The Writing Program offers two minors: a minor in journalism and a minor in communication and rhetoric. It also offers instruction in the theory and practice of teaching writing for graduate students and peer tutors. A number of its courses are designed to meet the needs of various groups, including transfer students, students whose first language is not English, and re-entry women.
Courses on creative writing are offered
through the Literature Department.