23 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 100Introduction to College Writing3
Summer Introduction to College Writing prepares students to write successfully at York College by giving you varied experience in critical reading and writing. In this course, you will develop flexible strategies of communication that will help you throughout college and in your professional life. You will be asked to read carefully, so that you will not only summarize, but also synthesize, analyze, and critique complex texts. This class will take a rhetorical approach, always addressing the available means writers and speakers employ to create effective discourse. You will write several short papers that demonstrate critical thinking and help you experiment with a variety of arguments and styles. You will also gain experience at turning your written work into oral and multimedia presentations. 3 credit hours
Fall/Spring This course involves the basic exploration of the publication production process that addresses the theory and practice of text project management, particularly in YCP publications such as the York Review and Rough Draft podcast
Spring This course provides students with guided experience in methods for teaching writing in both classroom settings and in tutoring sessions. Students will learn about current methodologies for the teaching and tutoring of writing and will work with experienced teachers and tutors toward practical application of those methods. Students will read and discuss current articles on writing pedagogy, observe composition classrooms, and shadow tutoring sessions with experienced teachers of writing. Students who successfully complete WRT 290 are eligible to become writing tutors in the Writing and Communication Studio.
Fall Crucial to the study of professional writing is rhetoric, the art of composing effective discourse. Students will be introduced to significant issues and figures in the academic discipline of rhetoric. Students will be asked to develop a working definition of rhetoric and to study significant texts from the history of rhetoric, including those written by figures such as the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, St. Augustine, and Virginia Woolf. Questions concerning whether or not language shapes/defines reality and creates knowledge will be considered. Students will also be introduced to non-Western rhetorics.
Fall/Spring This course is a more advanced exploration of the publication production process that addresses the theory and practice of text project management, particularly in YCP publications such as the York Review and Rough Draft podcast
Fall/Spring This course is a more advanced exploration of the publication production process that addresses the theory and practice of text project management, particularly in YCP publications such as the York Review and Rough Draft podcast
FCO 210 , FCO 215 , or FCO 225 ; WRT 315 . An application is required two months prior to intended on-site experience (including a statement of objectives and goals); students must be accepted by an approved site; approval of instructor; GPA of 2.5 or higher; and 60 credit hours completed before beginning on-site experience. Students may complete up to six credits of experiential learning. 3 credit hours
FCO 210 , FCO 215 , or FCO 225 ; WRT 315 ; WRT 450 . An application is required two months prior to intended on-site experience (including a statement of objectives and goals); students must be accepted by an approved site; approval of instructor; GPA of 2.50 or higher; and 60 credit hours completed before beginning on-site experience. Students may complete up to six credits of experiential learning. 3 credit hours
This capstone research seminar provides advanced History, Secondary Education - Social Science, and Professional Writing students the opportunity to continue developing their research and writing skills by engaging in a significant undergraduate research project. Students will refine a research proposal and plan (building on work begun in their research methods course and other undergraduate courses), undertake their research project using primary and secondary sources, and present their research findings in a final research paper and presentation. This course is crosslisted as HIS 485 . 3 credit hours
This course creates a learning opportunity for the student who wishes to undertake a well-defined research project. While the student conducts work under the guidance of a faculty member of his or her own choosing, the project is carried out in an independent manner without regular class meetings. Effective independent study is characterized by a reduction in formal instruction and an increase in the individual student’s responsibility and initiative in the learning process.
Students must have earned 60 or more credits and a minimum of 2.5 cumulative grade point average at the time of application. 1-3 credit hours
WRT 499Independent Study1-3
This course creates a learning opportunity for the student who wishes to undertake a well-defined research project. While the student conducts work under the guidance of a faculty member of his or her own choosing, the project is carried out in an independent manner without regular class meetings. Effective independent study is characterized by a reduction in formal instruction and an increase in the individual student’s responsibility and initiative in the learning process.
