Lower-Division

WRIT 10A Subject A Tutorial (2 credits per quarter)

A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

WRIT 10B Subject A Tutorial (2 credits per quarter)

A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

WRIT 10C Subject A Tutorial (2 credits per quarter)

A tutorial designed to help students improve their ability to write coherent, accurate prose and to pass the Subject A examination. Counts for academic standing and financial aid purposes, but does not apply toward degree requirements.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

WRIT 20 The Nature of Written Discourse

Explores the dynamics of written language: its relationships to speech, thought, and culture; its uses in different personal, academic, professional, and public contexts; its abuses in jargon and propaganda. Course work includes extensive practice in different kinds of writing.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to students who have not passed the Entry Level Writing Requirement. Open to others by permission of instructor.

Quarter offered

Winter, Summer

WRIT 21 Meaning and Style: The Sentence in Context

Explores, via cross-cultural readings, the nature, uses, and abuses of language. Course work includes extensive writing, both take-home and in-class. Emphasis on revising for power of expression and for variety and accuracy at the sentence level.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to students who have not passed the Entry Level Writing Requirement. Open to others by permission of instructor.

Quarter offered

Spring, Summer

WRIT 22A Grammar and Editing Workshop

Offers instruction on selected topics in grammar and conventions of written English as needed to strengthen the writing skills of students whose primary language is not standard English. Provides students practice in applying these concepts to editing their own writing. Designed for entering first-year students.

Credits

3

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to first-year students.

WRIT 22B Grammar and Editing Workshop

Offers instruction on selected topics in grammar and conventions of written English as needed to strengthen the writing skills of students whose primary language is not standard English. Provides students practice in applying these concepts to editing their own writing. Designed for continuing students who have already taken course 20 and/or 21.

Credits

3

WRIT 24 Writing for Academic Purposes

Addresses reading college-level materials and writing college-level paragraphs and short essays. Enrollment is by interview only. Enrollment is restricted to incoming frosh of whom the TOEFL is required for entrance to UCSC.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall

WRIT 61 Intermediate Writing: Research Techniques

Offering practice in writing expository, argumentative, and analytical prose, this course emphasizes the composition of lengthy essays and the techniques of research as well as its politics and ethics. One major research paper and several other essays are required. (61A: A special section designed specifically for re-entry women. The Staff; B: A special section designed specifically for re-entry men. The Staff.)

Credits

5

WRIT 61A Res Tech Reent Wom

Res Tech Reent Wom

Credits

5

WRIT 61B Res Tech Reent Men

Res Tech Reent Men

Credits

5

WRIT 63 Expository Writing

Expository Writing

Credits

5