Writing Program

166 Kresge College
(831) 459-2431
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/writing/index.html

Program Description

The campuswide Writing Program currently offers courses designed to help lower-division students 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. These 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.

Together with the colleges, the Writing Program administers the writing component of the campus general education requirements. It also administers the Entry-Level Analytical Writing Requirement (formerly known as Subject A), advises students about ways to fulfill these requirements, and offers courses that satisfy the “C” and “C2” general education requirement. Writing instructors in each college participate in that college’s core course and counsel its students about their writing.

The Writing Program has offered two minors: a minor in journalism (see Journalism Program) and a minor in communication and rhetoric (see Communication and Rhetoric Program), though both are suspended at this time. It also offers instruction in the theory and practice of teaching writing for graduate students and peer tutors.

Courses in creative writing are offered through the Literature Department.