Writing Req.

[Caribou]

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I my college at UCSD (quarter system) only offers two LD courses in writing. Then requires students to take an applied writing course in ethics but classifies it as a poli-sci course. Do you think I can make that poli-sci course fly as my third quarter of writing courses for the one year req.? Or should I take some type of literature course? I'm minoring in phil too. Would one of those classes work?

Thanks

 

[Uegis]

I my college at UCSD (quarter system) only offers two LD courses in writing. Then requires students to take an applied writing course in ethics but classifies it as a poli-sci course. Do you think I can make that poli-sci course fly as my third quarter of writing courses for the one year req.? Or should I take some type of literature course? I'm minoring in phil too. Would one of those classes work?

Thanks

That's probably a no-go. You need to take regular English or Literature courses only. I went to UCD and tried the same thing and was told that courses that have writing in it doesn't necessarily constitute a English class.

 

[nockamura]

Hey, I go to Revelle and I just put down Humanities as writing...Hopefully they accept that even though it includes art, music, philosophy, and components of history. Those 24 credit hours better count for something dammit!

 

[VFrank]

Yeah, I go to Northwestern and we have these things we have to take freshman year called "freshman seminars" that are strictly to improve our writing. They actually fill the writing requirement at Northwestern and don't count as anything else, even though you can take a freshman seminar in anthropology, political science, etc. But because it's ALL writing and you're grading on just your writing and since it fills OUR requirement, I just assumed it would fill another school's requirements too. If not, then it prolly isn't physically possible to complete a Biology degree at NU in four years and take the writing/english necessary to fulfill MD school requirements -- which would suck.