University of Kentucky Writing
Initiative
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Approved Graduation Writing Requirement Courses
Updated 12/10/08
Many students will benefit from fulfilling the requirement
multiple times before they graduate.
This is not a requirement to be “gotten over.”
The Graduation Writing
Requirement is still a pilot program at UK so course options may change each
semester. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about current or future GWR options.
Also, many of
these courses that are developed to satisfy the GWR are not new course numbers,
but the content and structure of the course has been significantly changed to
make the course compliant with Senate mandated GWR requirements. As a result,
advisors and students should pay careful
attention to the dates of
course approval because students
can only get GWR credit if they take courses that are approved GWR options.
New courses and recent changes to courses
are noted in red.
The Graduation Writing
Requirement can be fulfilled in six possible ways:
1. Honors Program students satisfy both the
first-year writing requirement and the Graduation Writing Requirement through
that curriculum. They must complete the
entire Honors curriculum to receive full credit.
2. The following courses are Undergraduate
Council and Senate approved permanent GWR courses. Students in these majors or areas of emphasis
are generally required complete the Graduation Writing Requirement through
these courses:
Anthropology: ANT 582 (Approved Spring 07-Spring 08 Only)
Architecture: ARC 314 (Approved Spring 06- Present)
Communication Disorders: CD 410/482/483 (Spring 06- Present)
Communication and Leadership Development: CLD 250 (Fall 05- Present)
Geography: GEO 300 (Spring 06-Fall 08 Only)
History: HIS 471, 490, or 499 (Spring 06- Present)
Physics: PHY 435 or 535 (Spring 07- Present)
Russian: RUS 499 (Fall 06- Present)
Sustainable Agriculture: SAG 201 (Fall 07- Present)
Social Work: SW 470W (Spring 06- Present)
3.
The
following are courses have been previously approved by Undergraduate Council on
a semester-by-semester basis. Because these courses are only approved on
a semester-by-semester basis students and advisors should be aware that they may
not always satisfy the graduation writing requirement. Please also note that even
when one of these courses is offered, not all sections of a given course may
satisfy the graduation writing requirement.
Note these are all updated as of Fall 09 and subject to change at any
time. Students or Advisors should contact the
Writing Initiative to verify GWR status on all these
courses.
Courses which have
previously been offered on a Semester by Semester Basis:
African American Studies: AAS 264/ENG 264 (Fall 2004 to Present)
Arts and Science: A&S 300 (Fall 08 Only)
Agricultural Biotechnology:
ABT 201 AND 301 (Approved Fall 06 to Present)
Agricultural Economics: AEC 580 (Approved Spring 08 ONLY)
Biology: Bio 425/VS 395 (Approved Fall 06 Only)
Civil Engineering: CE 507 (Approved Spring 07- Fall 08)
Civil Engineering: CE 599 (Fall
08 only section 001; Fall 09 only section 003)
Clinical Leadership and Management: CLM 595 (Fall 07 to Present)
Communications: COM 351 (Summer 08 to Present)
Special Education and Rehabilitation: EDS 530 (Fall 06 to
Present)
Educational Policies Studies: EPE 301W (Spring 08 to Present)
Forestry: FOR 460 (Starting Fall 09)
Math: MA 330 (Spring 09 only section 002)
Mining: MNG 371 (Starting Fall 08)
Natural Resource Conservation and Management: NRC 301(Fall 05 to
Present)
Nursing: NUR 854 (Fall 2004 to Present)
Nutrition and Food Science: NFS 591 (Spring 07-Spring 09 Only)
Nutrition and Food Science:
NFS 474/475 (Starting
Fall 2009)
Political Science: PS 490 (Spring 08 to Present)
4. Students who don’t have the benefit of
taking an approved upper-tier writing course within their major field of study
can fulfill this requirement by completing a 200-level literature or film
course in English:
*ENG 203 Business
Writing (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 205 Intermediate Composition (Starting Spring 2009)
ENG 230 Introduction to
Literature (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 231 Literature and
Genre (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 232 Literature and
Place (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 233 Literature and
Identities (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 234 Introduction to
Women’s Literature (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 261 Survey of
Western Literature from the Greeks Through the
Renaissance (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 262 Survey of
Western Literature from 1660 to the Present (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 264 Major Black
Writers (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 270 The Old
Testament as Literature (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 271 The New
Testament as Literature (Fall 04 to Present)
ENG 281 Introduction to
Film (Fall 04 to Present)
*Students in the College of B&E
technically have priority for ENG 203.
5. Independent Study offers several courses which can also
satisfy the GWR: ENG 203 (Fall 07-Present), ENG 261 (Spring 08 to Present), and
ENG 262 (Spring 08- Present). These are
currently the ONLY courses approved for GWR credit that are offered by
Independent Study. Students must be preapproved for GWR credit by the
Writing Initiative BEFORE Independent Study will enroll them in the course.
This assures that students have their eligibility for GWR credit verified
before they start the course. Once they finish the course, students must send
the Writing Initiative an assessment paper from the course. Once the Writing
Initiative receives the paper the GWR credit will be noted on the student’s
transcript and in apex.
6. Distance
Learning offers two
courses that can be used to satisfy the GWR: ENG 261 and ENG 262. These are the
ONLY courses approved for GWR credit that are offered by Distance
Learning. Distance Learning courses are
on a regular semester schedule so students do not need prior approval for
enrollment.
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