Student Survival Guide
Keys to Surviving Your Writing Intensive Curriculum Course
Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) course:
An upper division course that has been approved as meeting
all WIC criteria specified by the OSU Faculty Senate. All students must
take a WIC course in their major in order to graduate.
Based on the Faculty Senate criteria, WIC courses include:
- Learning about the kinds of formal and informal writing done by professionals
in your field of study.
- Understanding the processes and conventions commonly used by writers
in your field.
- Writing at least 5,000 words; 2,000 will be in polished form (papers
you've revised after receiving feedback from your peers and/or instructor).
- Receiving an overall course grade of which at least 30% is based on your
writing.
- Writing informal assignments about what you're reading and discussing
in class; also called "writing-to-learn."
- Writing at least one paper using outside sources.
- Participating in a small class—usually somewhere from 20 to 30 students.
