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Home  W and C Courses in the Disciplines Approved W and C Courses CLAS 321 Advanced Latin Readings
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CLAS 321 Advanced Latin Readings |
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College of Liberal Arts/European and Classical Languages and Cultures
Expiration Date: 9/1/11
Steven Oberhelman
5-0841
s-oberhelman@tamu.ed
REPORT ON PROPOSED W COURSE: CLAS 321
We recommend that CLAS 321, Advanced Latin Readings, be certified as a writing-intensive (W) course for the next four academic years (9/07 to 9/11). We have reviewed a representative syllabus and have determined that the course meets or exceeds the following criteria:
- Percentage of final grade based on writing quality: 40%
- Course content appropriate to the major
- Total number of words: 3000+
- Instructor to student ratio for one section: 1:15
Students receive feedback in the form of instructor comments on written drafts, including instructions on revision. In addition, students receive feedback in the form of peer review on the second, third, and fourth writing assignment. Model student writing will be shared with the class. Writing instruction is provided via lecture and handouts as well as exemplary models of writing in the forms of scholarly notes and review essays.
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A great outcry has been made lately, on every side, about the inability of the students admitted to
Harvard
College to write English clearly and correctly. The schools are to-day paying more attention to composition than they did twenty or thirty years ago; and yet, notwithstanding this increased study and practice, the writing of schoolboys has been growing steadily worse.
– "The English Question," James Jay Greenough
Atlantic Monthly, May 1893
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