5 courses with the subject WRT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
WRT 1001Writing Across Contexts4
4 Foundation Liberal Arts Credits This course introduces students to key concepts in meaning-making and helps them develop rhetorically sophisticated approaches to reading, writing, and composing across contexts. Students refine and reflect on their own composing practices and processes past, present, and future as they read, analyze, and create texts for a wide variety of audiences, purposes, and media forms. At the end of the term and with the vocabulary developed in the course, each student articulates in an essay their own working theory of and approach to writing that they can mobilize and adapt for future academic and professional contexts. Credits 4 Babson College Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
4 Foundation Liberal Arts Credits This course prompts students to put their theory of writing into practice through writing and composing in research-based genres for audiences in academic discourse communities. Students learn to recognize and adhere to the discursive and procedural conventions of particular communities of scholarly practice, and they examine and participate in modes of scholarly inquiry while learning about and engaging in best practices for finding, evaluating, and incorporating sources. Students produce scholarly arguments in essay form while exploring the roles that other textual forms can and do play in scholarship, and they continually reflect on how this work informs their theory and understanding of writing more generally. Credits 4
4 advanced elective credits From political speeches and op-eds, to public art PSAs seen on billboards and on subways, to recent social media campaigns emerging out of viral social movements, change writing is all around us and ever evolving. But what is the relationship between writing and progress, and how can writing be used as a tool for effectively inspiring change? This course engages with written and digital texts that advocate for meaningful social change and considers how our increasingly divided and viral world demands the careful and responsible creation and consumption of texts. Through our course assignments and projects, students will become more engaged and persuasive communicators as they consider their own roles in pushing for change that is personally meaningful, be it on campus, in local communities, or beyond.
