- Is not included in the Core Curriculum Communications requirements.
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- Is worth at least one credit.
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- Requires writing and public speaking significant to and essential for the major. (As a guideline, the name of the major appears in the course title, the course figures into the GPR for the major, or the course is part of a College Core Curriculum.) The C course is integral to and prepared specifically for the major. Assigned writing or speaking are of the type students will encounter in their academic careers or in the workplace.
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- Has a reasonable instructor-to-student ratio (no greater than 1:25) to ensure course quality. The ratio is determined by including the instructor/s plus any aides, graduate or undergraduate, as instructors. If a higher ratio is proposed, the committee will require compelling evidence that it will not adversely affect course quality.
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- Ensures all aides, graduate and undergraduate, are appropriately monitored and supervised.
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- Requires that students pass the writing and public speaking components and specifies so on the syllabus. (The W & C Course Advisory Committee wants to prevent the case where a student might get credit for a graduation requirement in writing or speaking without actually writing.)
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- Bases a substantial percentage of the final course grade on individually written products or individually delivered public speaking performances. Collaborative writing or speaking can be included if they were included before 2 April 2018 and the course was keep current and did not expire during that time. Resumes and related materials can be included only if they are specific to the major. Essay examinations can be included only if they are take-home with time to draft and revise. Oral presentation slides, handouts, scripts, web sites, and posters which accompany an oral presentation may count as writing. These percentages should be based on finished, written products or speaking performances, or on drafts. Although drafts are encouraged, they need not be graded; if they are graded, they can count for up to 50% of any assignment. The percentages listed below represent the minimum required percentage of the final course grade.
- 1-credit course: 70%
- 2-credit course: 50%
- 3-credit course: 33%
- 4-credit course: 25%
- 5-credit course: 20%
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- Does not allow undergraduates aides to grade more that 10% of the writing or speaking portion contributing to the final grade.
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- Assigns at least 1250 words (five pages, double-spaced) of graded, finished writing and 5 minutes of public speaking. Drafts cannot be counted in this total. All work counted in this total must be individually produced and assessed.
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- Includes some instruction in writing and in public speaking. Instruction can be defined as, but is not limited to, providing opportunities for practice, providing and discussing models, conducting workshop classes, and lecturing on rhetorical forms or principles. Some instruction may occur outside of class as homework, but in-class is instruction recommended.
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- Provides some formative feedback on both writing and speaking, preferably on major projects in progress. Formative feedback gives students an opportunity to improve and is structured so that students may use it to revise final drafts or improve performance. It is not simply comments on finished and graded papers or on a rubric filled in during a final presentation. For public speaking, formative feedback can include comments on practice performances, on notes or outlines of a performance, or on slides.
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