Our Courses

We offer two courses in the First Year Writing (FYW) program. You can read full descriptions of each course using the pulldown menu above or clicking the links below. But before you do that, you may be interested in reading the catalog descriptions of each course. The curriculum of these courses frequently changes year-to-year, so these descriptions only offer a general picture of what you’ll learn in the courses.

English 100 – Introduction to College Writing

A writing course that offers practice in reading complex texts, writing with fluency and using the conventions of standard written English. Regularly scheduled conferences with instructor required. S/U grading (i.e. pass/fail).

Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Meets: Either 5-days a week for 50 minutes or MWF for 80 minutes

Size: Capped at 15 students

Texts: You are not typically required to purchase textbooks for this class. Readings will be provided by the instructor

Find out more about English 100 here: https://wp.wwu.edu/writing/english-100-introduction-to-college-writing/

English 101 – Writing Your Way Through Western

A writing course designed to prepare students for college-level creative, critical, and reflective writing. Because writing looks and works differently in different contexts, this course teaches the rhetorical competencies that students need to write across multiple disciplines. The course introduces students both to the processes of building and analyzing ideas, and to ways of communicating those ideas in context-specific genres for targeted audiences. This course has the immediate goal of preparing students to succeed in their writing at Western, but it will also serve them personally and professionally. Students needing to satisfy Block A of the communications section of the General University Requirements, which ENG 101 does, are required to do so prior to completion of 45 credits. Students with a 4 or 5 AP score are encouraged to take this class so they can learn to adapt their test-taking skills to college coursework.

Prerequisites & Notes: May not be taken concurrently with ENG 100.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: ACOM

Meets: MWF for 80 minutes (8:30, 10:00, 11:30, 1:00 and 2:30). Multiple sections are scheduled for each time slot. Wednesday sessions are always scheduled in one of our computer labs.

Size: Capped at 24 students

Texts: You are not typically required to purchase textbooks for this class. Readings will be provided by the instructor.

Find out more about English 101 here: https://wp.wwu.edu/writing/english-101-writing-your-way-through-western/