Academic Catalog

Writing (WRIT)

WRIT 099  Fundamentals of Writing  2.00  
Fundamentals of academic writing: active reading strategies, writing processes, revision, audience awareness, full development of ideas, adherence to rules of standard edited English. Credits in this course cannot be used to fulfill University Studies requirements, graduation requirements, or the requirements of a major or minor. Credits count for transcript only. Students must co-enroll in WRIT 102.
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Fall & Spring
  • Online: Fall & Spring
  
WRIT 102  Introduction to Academic Writing  3.00  
Critical reading, research, and academic writing arguments. Emphasis on information literacy, elements of persuasion, documentation and citation. Students must pass with a C- or better.
Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: A qualifying score on the WEPT, or for UWS ESL students, a passing grade C- higher in ESL 132
  
University Studies Requirements:
  • UST: Academic Writing
  
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Fall & Spring
  • Online: Fall & Spring
  
WRIT 189  Writing Elective  12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-Superior course.
WRIT 189W1  Writing Elective W1  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
University Studies Requirements:
  • UST: Academic Writing
  
WRIT 209  Introduction to Professional Writing  3.00  
Writing in a range of genres related to the rhetorical situations, audiences, technologies, and multicultural environments of the 21st century workplace. Emphasis on liberal arts career skills. Students must pass with a C- or better to complete the core writing sequence.
Prerequisites:
    Completion of WRIT 102 with a grade of C- or better and completion of 30 college credits or instructor permission.
  
University Studies Requirements:
  • UST: Professional Writing
  
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Fall, Spring, & Sum
  • Online: Fall & Spring
  
WRIT 250  Introduction to Creative Writing  3.00  
Introductory creative writing course in which students develop their ability to write in a variety of genres. Study of contemporary works in genres that my include literary prose, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction; composition in genres that may include literary prose, poetry, drama and creative nonfiction; development of a writing process and writerly identity; workshop critiques of student writing. Course includes Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (URSCA) high-impact practice.
University Studies Requirements:
  • UST: Fine Arts - Aesthetic Experience
  
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Fall & Spring
  • Online: Fall, Spring, & Summer
  
WRIT 270  Contemporary Topics in Writing  3.00  
Studies in writing. Can be repeated for credit with different topics.
Typically Offered:
  • Occasional by Demand
  
WRIT 289  Writing Elective  12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-Superior course.
WRIT 289AE  Writing Elective Aesthetic Experience  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 289AH  Writing Elective Art History  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 289DV  Writing Elective Diversity  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 289HL  Writing Elective Humanities-Literature  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 289NW  Writing Elective Non-Western  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 289W1  Writing Elective Writing 1 General Education  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 289W2  Writing Elective Writing 2 General Education  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 298  Prior Learning Portfolio Development  1.00  
Facilitation of students' creation of a portfolio that document prior learning. Reflection and analysis of prior learning experiences to articulate knowledge, understanding, and skills that may meet college-level learning outcomes. Designed for students with significant work and life experiences. Course requires instructor permission. Must be taken Pass/Fail.
Typically Offered:
  • Online: Fall, Spring, & Summer
  
WRIT 301  Advanced Creative Writing: Literary Nonfiction  3.00  
Advanced creative writing course in which students employ the tools of creative nonfiction (CNF) to create works such as memoirs, travel, essays, personal essays, and historical nonfiction essays. Emphasis on the writing process and writers' workshops. By the end of this course students should have a solid understanding of the specific characteristics of CNF, an awareness of their own creative process, and a completed body of written work that demonstrates the skills acquired in the course. Course includes Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (URSCA) high impact practice.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 250 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Spring, Even Years
  • Online: Spring
  
WRIT 303  Introduction to Rhetoric  3.00  
Introduction to the field of rhetoric, including discussion of ancient and contemporary theories and practices. Course includes Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (URSCA) high-impact practice.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Fall Term Only
  
WRIT 307  English Grammar  3.00  
Exploration of English grammar through a variety of perspectives including descriptive linguistics, the history of English grammar, educational topics, sociolinguistics and current applications of grammar in other fields.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Fall Term Every Other Year
  
WRIT 308  Nature, Environmental, and Scientific Writing  3.00  
Study of exemplary contemporary and/or classic nonfiction essays with an environmental and scientific focus. Writing of non-fiction essays related to nature, science, and/or the environment. Research and writing on research questions, topics, and themes of student interest.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Fall, Even Years
  • Online: Fall
  
WRIT 309  Technical Writing  3.00  
Study, analysis, and practice of technical writing with an emphasis on processes for writing with technology: writing for the web, writing for social media, fundamentals of Adobe Creative Suite, and digital composition tools.
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • Spring Term Every Other Year
  
WRIT 310  Grant Writing  3.00  
Grant Writing is designed as a professional communications laboratory which offers students the opportunity to learn how to identify and successfully navigate organizational structures, apply the best methods in prospect research and grant writing, and gain critical skills in developing proposals and other supporting documents for local non-profit organizations.
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • Fall Term Even Years Only
  
WRIT 350  Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction  3.00  
Advanced creative writing course in which students further develop their ability to write fiction. Study of contemporary works of fiction; examination of and practice in elements of craft; composition of fiction (drafts and revisions); further development of a writing process and writerly identity; workshop critiques of student writing. Course includes Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (URSCA) high-impact practice.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 250 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Fall Term Every Other Year
  
WRIT 352  Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry  3.00  
Advanced creative writing course in which students further develop their ability to write poetry. Study of contemporary works of poetry; examination of and practice in elements of poetic craft; composition of poetry (drafts and revisions); further development of a writing process and writerly identity; workshop critiques of student writing. Course includes Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (URSCA) high-impact practice.
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • Spring Term Only
  
WRIT 353  Advanced Creative Writing: Cross-genre  3.00  
Advanced creative writing course in which students study, practice, and invent techniques that bridge conventional generic boundaries and explore new approaches to literary production. Study of works in hybrid genres including, but not limited to, mashups, multi-media writing, slipstream fiction, prose poetry, and lyrical nonfiction; composition in forms and genres of the students' invention; development of a writing process and writerly identity; workshop critiques of student writing.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 250 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Fall Term Every Other Year
  
WRIT 360  The Literary Magazine  3.00  
Study and analysis of contemporary and historical literary magazines; developmental editing and copy-editing practice; and participation in the submissions, editing, design, publication, and promotion process of The Nemadji Review, the UW-Superior college literary journal.
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Spring
  • Online: Spring
  
WRIT 389  Writing Elective  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 401  Advanced Rhetoric: Theory and Practice  3.00  
Study of persuasive writing. Students learn classical and contemporary approaches to the arts of persuasion and apply them in reading and writing contemporary discourse. Course includes Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (URSCA) high-impact practice.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 303 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Spring Term Only
  
WRIT 408  Environmental Advocacy in Digital Communities  3.00  
This course will focus on generating persuasive environmental narratives on key social media platforms. Special focus will be placed on how to use digital storytelling to read the landscape - developing stories that enhance environmental policy, engagement and appreciation through community development programs, public awareness campaigns, and public humanities projects.
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • Fall Term Odd Years Only
  
WRIT 409  Digital Writing  3.00  
Theory and practice of writing for digital media: writing for social media, writing for the web, and writing in emergent technological spaces, informed by digital media theory and the philosophy of technology, and grounded in a rhetorical approach.
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • Spring Term Every Other Year
  
WRIT 411  Writing and Artificial Intelligence  3.00  
Theory and practice of writing with artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Topics will include the ethics of AI language generation tools and using AI tools for creative and professional writing. Lecture and Discussion
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • Online: Fall, Even Years
  
WRIT 420  Language, Narrative and Unconscious Bias  3.00  
WRIT 420 introduces students to the metaphoric and narrative foundations of human identities and the prejudices inherited with those identities. The course provides students with an understanding of the complexity of their own personal assemblage of identities as well as those of others. Unconscious bias, its impact on decision-making, and social crises arising from identity conflicts will be studied, as well as techniques for recognizing and mitigating one's own unconscious biases.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Spring Term Odd Years Only
  
WRIT 450  Special Topics in Rhetoric  1.00-6.00  
Studies in language, rhetoric, or poetics. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Occasional by Demand
  
WRIT 460  Experiential Learning in Editing and Publishing  1.00-3.00  
Specialized intensive practice in publishing and editing activities. Experience must be designed in consultation with the course instructor and will provide an on-campus apprenticeship in partnership with the college literary magazine, The Nemadji Review. Minimum 45 hours per credit. Instructor consent required and by arrangement. Repeatable
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Spring
  • Online: Spring
  
WRIT 465  Writing and Publishing Your Book  3.00  
Students engage in a regular writing practice as they draft and structure part of a book-length manuscript in a genre of their choice, as well as develop a manuscript completion, submission and publication plan.
Prerequisites:
  
Typically Offered:
  • On-campus: Fall, Odd Years
  • Online: Fall, Odd Years
  
WRIT 470  Special Topics in Writing  1.00-6.00  
Studies in writing. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Occasional by Demand
  
WRIT 480  Writing and Well-being  3.00  
Exploration of theoretical and applied aspects of writing and well-being. Forms studied and practiced may include poetry, story-telling, journaling, guided autobiography, and/or creative nonfiction, with focus on restorative benefits of narrative and imagistic writing.
Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of WRIT 102 or instructor consent.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Spring Term Every Other Year
  
WRIT 489  Writing Elective  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-Superior course.
WRIT 489AE  Writing Elective Aesthetic Experience  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 489AH  Writing Elective Art History  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 489DV  Writing Elective Diversity  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 489HL  Writing Elective Humanities-Literature  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 489NW  Writing Elective Non-Western  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 489W1  Writing Elective Writing 1 General Education  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 489W2  Writing Elective Writing 2 General Education  1.00-12.00  
Transfer credits ONLY from another accredited institution not equivalent to a UW-S course.
WRIT 490  The Writer's Portfolio  3.00  
Course in which students explore writing beyond the university setting through readings, discussion, and independent research and create an online portfolio of creative, academic, and/or professional writing accompanied by critical reflection. Public presentation of written work is required.
Prerequisites:
    If taken to fulfill Senior Year Experience, successful completion of at least 18 credits in the major or 12 credits in the minor is required.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Spring Term Only
  
WRIT 495  Writing Internship  1.00-6.00  
The Writing Internship allows students to apply their academic learning in a professional context. The internship site will vary based on the interests of the student. The nature of the writing undertaken may fall within any/all the following types/contexts as appropriate: creative, technical, editorial, journalistic, bureaucratic, industrial, web-based, non-profit, and others as opportunities arise. If taken to fulfill Senior Year Experience, must be taken for 3 credits.
Prerequisites:
    If taken to fulfill Senior Year Experience, successful completion of at least 18 credits in the major or 12 credits in the minor is required.
  
Typically Offered:
  • Fall and Spring Terms
  
WRIT 498  Independent Study  1.00-6.00  
Advanced study for students who have shown themselves capable of independent work, carried on under direction of a staff member chosen by the student with approval of the department chair. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Instructor consent.
Typically Offered:
  • Fall and Spring Terms