WMST/ENGL 474 Studies in Women Writers
College of Liberal Arts / English
Expiration Date: 1/1/12
Claude Gibson
5-8359
cgibson@tamu.edu
REPORT ON PROPOSED W COURSE: ENGL/WMST 474
We recommend that ENGL/WMST 474, Studies in Women Writers, be certified as a writing-intensive (W) course for the next four academic years (1/08 to 1/12). We have reviewed a representative syllabus and have determined that the course meets or exceeds the following criteria:
1. Percentage of final grade based on writing quality: 50%
2. Course content appropriate to the major
3. Total number of words: 4000+
4. Instructor to student ratio for one section: 1:27
Students receive detailed response to the proposal and bibliography, and (for any formal submission) they may submit via email their introduction and another paragraph for teacher input prior to the due date. A day for peer critiques of the major paper is scheduled. The professor takes up journals twice during the semester and provides detailed response to the students’ analyses. An essential component of this class is the journal. Students are given prompts twice a week and asked to respond. The prompts attend to the global or thematic issues occurring in the readings, or they may ask students to attend to the rhetoric of the reading. Writing workshops and peer critiques are scheduled on the syllabus; more informal discussion of writing occurs almost daily in connection with the readings.
