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Foundations Writing for Transfer Students

All new, incoming transfer students (regardless of previous coursework or examinations) must first complete the Foundations Writing Evaluation, available through your Next Steps Center. This online tool will determine whether your previous writing/English coursework fulfills the University Foundations Writing requirement, so long as your official transcripts have already been processed through the Office of the Registrar. 

Students with 40 or more transfer credits whose previous writing/English composition coursework does not satisfy the Foundations Writing requirement have two additional options to fulfill the requirement: 

  1. Enroll in WRIT 306T, or

  2. Submit a Transfer Portfolio 

The transfer portfolio option will be discontinued beginning in Fall 2026. The final date to submit a Transfer Portfolio will be August 1, 2026.

Students who prefer to take our Foundations Writing sequence (WRIT 101/107+102/108 or WRIT 109H) to fulfill the requirement are still welcome to do so. We recommend that students work closely with their academic advisor to decide which option best suits them and their degree requirements.

English 306T

One requirement, one course

This intensive, 7.5-week course covers the major outcomes of our WRIT 101/107 and 102/108 courses while emphasizing students' unique backgrounds, professional interests, and academic disciplines. Students who enroll in the course are also eligible to complete the Transfer Portfolio, but elect to take the course as a means of receiving more direct instruction and support to help them through the portfolio compilation and reflection process.

Who should do it?

WRIT 306T is ideal for students who:

  • have non-academic experiences that have exposed them to different types of workplace or recreational writing;

  • have taken at least a few courses in their major discipline and want to know more about how writing and research are done in their discipline.

What is it?

The course is extended study in rhetorical knowledge to support writing development. Students will be expected to do more independent work, discovering, analyzing, and producing the kind of writing used in their unique academic disciplines or intended professions. Through both formal and informal writing activities, this course emphasizes awareness of how writing differs across academic and professional contexts with guided practice in shifting purpose, style, and register.

How do I start?

Complete the Foundations Writing Evaluation in order to select this option (you may select this option even if you are recommended something else!). Once you have submitted your FWE, you will be eligible to register for WRIT 306T.