"W" Courses

What are "W" Courses?

"W" Course refers to courses that are:

• Writing to Learn (WTL)
• Writing Intensive (WI)
• Writing Enhanced (WE)

• Located throughout the university in which instructors are writing tasks to help students analyze or understand concepts.

• Characteristics include:
  • Created to facilitate students' ability to think.
  • Shorter and less formal at early stages.
  • Designed to explore course concepts.
  • Lower-stakes grades often scaffolded into course assignments.
  • Ungraded or completion grades only.

• 50% of course grades are derived from assignments that ask students to engage writing to help think through course concepts.