Written Communication : Indiana University Southeast

Written Communication

Basic Requirement
Dept./Course #	Title	Credit Hours
ENG-W 131	Reading, Writing, & Inquiry I	3
Prerequisite: Placement according to the IU Southeast English Placement Process. W131 teaches skills of critical reading, thinking, and writing to help students meaningfully engage artifacts, events, and issues in our world. The course builds students' abilities to read written and cultural texts critically; to analyze those texts in ways that engage both students' own experiences and the perspectives of others; and to write about those texts for a range of audiences and purposes as a means of participating in broader conversations. Assignments emphasize the analysis and synthesis of sources in making and developing claims.
HON-H 103	Honors Seminar: Common Intellectual Experience I	3
Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program. A skills course emphasizing writing, reading, speaking, thinking skills, collaborative learning, diversity, research, and the use of technology in an academic setting. Readings and discussion of texts-in-common selected by Honors faculty and studied in preparation for possible project presentation at the Mid-East Honors Conference in the spring. Ordinarily taken during the first semester of study at IU Southeast. Part one of the required two-semester seminar sequence for Tier One students.

Second-Level Approved Courses
Dept./Course #	Title	Credit Hours
ENG-W 231	Professional Writing Skills	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher or equivalent. To develop writing skills requisite for most professional activities. Emphasis on methods of research, organization, and writing techniques useful in preparing business and professional memos, letters, reports, and proposals.
ENG-W 234	Technical Report Writing	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher. Instruction in preparing engineering and other technical proposals and reports, with an introduction to the use of graphics.
ENG-W 250	Writing in Context	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 or equivalent. A course designed to provide a subject-matter context for reading, writing, and research assignments of increasing complexity. Topics of general interest (e.g., autobiography, nature writing, science and society, teacher and child, American business, prison life, etc.) vary from section to section.
ENG-W 270	Argumentative Writing	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher. Offers instruction and practice in writing argumentative essays about complicated and controversial issues. The course focuses on strategies for identifying issues, assessing claims, locating evidence, deciding on a position, and writing papers with clear assertion and convincing arguments.
ENG-W 290	Writing in the Arts and Sciences	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher. An introduction to academic writing as a means of discovery and record. Study of and practice in the procedures, conventions, and terminology of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Research-intensive.
ENG-W 300	Writing for Teachers	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher. The study of writing in relation to the teaching of writing in the schools. Students will evaluate their own writing strengths and weakness and complete a series of writing assignments meant to improve their writing skills. Additionally, students will read current, selected works in composition theory and learn how to apply their new understandings about writing to various teaching situations.
ENG-W 310	Language and the Study of Writing
ENG-W 315	Writing for the Web	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher. This course introduces students to new forms of writing (beyond word processing and desktop publishing) made possible by computers - hypertext, electronic mail, and computer conferencing - and explores what impact these forms will have on literacy skills for writers and readers of such computer-delivered texts.
ENG-W 350	Advanced Expository Writing	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher or equivalent. Close examination of assumptions, choices, and techniques that go into a student's own writing and the writing of others.
ENG-W 420	Argumentative Writing	3
Prerequisite: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher. Presents argument as a process of inquiry. Applies critical and creative thinking to analyzing and composing effective argument. Addresses contexts and ideologies as a component of audience receptivity to ideas. Writers form and test ideas from pluralistic perspectives on controversial issues about which reasonable people disagree, including culture-sensitive issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, etc.
JOUR-J 200	Reporting, Writing, and Editing I	3
Working seminar stressing the creation of journalistic stories for diverse audiences. Students will learn to develop story ideas, gather information, combine visual and verbal messages, and write and edit news.
PSY-P 342	Research and Quantitative Methods in Psychology II	3
Prerequisite: PSY-P 341 - Research and Quantitative Methods in Psychology I. Course is a continuation of P 341 that includes statistical analysis, research methods, and proposal/report writing used in psychological research. This course is the second half of a two-semester course and must be taken the semester after P 341. Should be taken before enrolling in other 300- and 400-level psychology courses.
SOC-S 260	Intermediate Sociological Writing	3
Prerequisite: SOC-S 163. Co-requisite: SOC-S 381. The focus on the seminar will be thinking, questioning, and writing from sociological perspectives. Students will frame sociological questions,match data to questions, develop sociological arguments, learn effective methods for doing library searches and organizing information, and then write and polish their papers. Required for sociology majors.