Foundations Writing offers a wide variety of courses for students to satisfy the university’s General Education writing requirement. All of these courses share the same set of learning goals for our students.
What do we do in Foundations Writing?
What happens in our courses? And what do students say about their experiences? Check out the video to learn more!
You can read about individual courses in the guides provided below. Each guide below presents a sample assignment and course activity for our courses (WRIT 106, 101/107, 101A, 102/108, 109H) along with customized information for different student groups and campuses.
How do you know which course is right for you?
New, incoming students (First-Years, Transfers, Internationals) should complete the Foundations Writing Evaluation (FWE) or international Foundations Writing Evaluation (iFWE) to figure out which (if any) of our courses you need to take in order to satisfy the university writing requirement.
What outcomes can you expect from taking Foundations Writing?
The following outcomes are covered in all Foundations Writing courses (101, 101A, 107, 102, 108, and 109):
- Implement and reflect upon composing processes that are individualized, flexible, and contextually responsive.
- Adapt composing practices to specific modalities, genres, social situations, and cultural contexts.
- Demonstrate ethical practices in the collection and use of information.
- Suggest constructive global and local revisions to other writers.
- Utilize feedback to produce global and local revisions in their own writing.
- Recognize and articulate how their values, goals, and/or lived experiences inform their choices as writers.
- Use meaningful, multifaceted, ongoing reflection to identify how knowledge, skills, processes, and experiences can transfer across writing contexts.
The next four outcomes are covered in WRIT 101, 101A, 107, and 109:
- Identify and analyze how texts are influenced by their rhetorical situations, genres, and modalities.
- Analyze genres and their conventions within various rhetorical, cultural, and linguistic contexts.
- Make purposeful and context-sensitive choices regarding language, structure, and design conventions.
- Support ideas through the use of examples, observations, experiences, and reasoning.
The last five outcomes are covered in WRIT 102, 108, and 109:
- Read and analyze texts across multiple genres and rhetorical contexts.
- Develop and implement research strategies for focused inquiry.
- Evaluate sources for credibility, relevance, context, and accuracy.
- Synthesize varied research findings to develop and share ideas.
- Identify and apply situationally appropriate practices for idea attribution.