SWC 100: Transition to College Writing
This 3-credit, credit/no-credit course utilizes an intensive one-on-one approach to teaching writing, including biweekly student-teacher conferences.

SWC 200: New Media Writing
These 1-credit and 3-credit topics courses integrate a variety of media into the writing process and dedicate attention to their rhetorical dimensions, including Power Point, websites, electronic portfolios, blogs, podcasts, audio, and video.

SWC 300: Seminar in Peer Tutoring
This course helps students become theoretically informed and well-practiced Peer Tutors. During the process, students learn about writing, teaching, community service, cultural differences, and literacy practices.

SWC 301: Directed Peer Tutoring
This 1-3 credit seminar provides students who have been trained in SWC 300 with an opportunity to tutor in a supportive environment.

SWC 400: Advanced Rhetoric and Research
In this advanced critical writing and research course, students analyze the strategies, rules, conditions, and genres that enable communication within particular discourse communities.

SWC 630: Advanced Writing for Graduate Students
This course is designed for graduate students who have made significant progress in their degree program and are thinking ahead to larger writing projects: a prospectus, conference paper, article, and/or groundwork for a dissertation.

SWC 993: GSI Training - Teaching Writing in the Disciplines
This one-credit, hands-on workshop is designed for GSIs teaching courses that fulfill the undergraduate Upper-Level Writing Requirement.

SWC Wait List Policy
Students who want to be admitted to a closed SWC course should add themselves to the wait list. Students are notified based upon a variety of criteria. Click above for more details.