Writing-Intensive Courses

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The courses below have been approved by the Writing Committee as an option to meet the writing intensive requirement.

Approved Courses

AAS 100 - Introduction to African American Studies (3 cr. hr.)
AAS 315 - African Economic Development (3 cr. hr.)
AAS 350 - Caribbean Philosophy (3 cr. hr.)
AAS 360 - Salsa as Resistance in Motion (3 cr. hr.)
AAS 392 - Black Political Thought (3 cr. hr.)
AED 301 - Pre-Practice Teaching Seminar (6 cr. hr.)
AED 315 - Foundations of Secondary Social Studies (3 cr. hr.)
AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (BIO) (3 cr. hr.)
AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (CHE) (3 cr. hr.)
AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (GLY) (3 cr. hr.)
AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (MAT) (3 cr. hr.)
AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (MDL) (3 cr. hr.)
AED 391 - Introduction to Adolescence Education (PHY) (3 cr. hr.)
AED 392 - Methods I: Teaching Adolescence Mathematics (3 cr. hr.)
AED 408 - Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools (3 cr. hr.)
AED 438 - Methods of Teaching Second Languages in Middle/Junior and High Schools II (3 cr. hr.)
AED 492 - Methods II: Field Experiences in Adolescence Mathematics (3 cr. hr.)
ANT 406 - Contact and Culture Change (3 cr. hr.)
ANT 493 - Anthropological Methods and Theory (3 cr. hr.)
ANT 550 - Independent Study in Anthropology (1-6 cr. hr.)
ATH 300 - Arts of Africa, the Americas, and Oceania (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 301 - Training the Artist: 1850 - Present (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 320 - History and Theory of Digital Arts (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 324 - Spanish and Spanish American Art and Architecture (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 326 - Art of Greece and Rome (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 330 - Far Eastern Art (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 331 - History of Graphic Design (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 340 - The Early Renaissance in Italy (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 341 - 15th-, 16th-Century Painting in Northern Europe (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 344 - Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 355 - Rococo Through Impressionism: 18th and 19th Centuries (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 357 - Modern Art (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 385 - History of Prints (3 cr. hr.)
ATH 457 - Contemporary Art (3 cr. hr.)
BIO 210 - Cellular Biology (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 304 - Microbiology (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 324 - Human Anatomy (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 402 - Biology of Vertebrates (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 405 - Conservation Biology (3 cr. hr.)
BIO 411 - Ornithology (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 412 - General Ecology (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 444 - Immunology (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 450 - Neurobiology (3 cr. hr.)
BIO 502 - Comparative Functional Morphology (3 cr. hr.)
BIO 512 - Limnology (3 cr. hr.)
BIO 514 - Human Physiology (4 cr. hr.)
BIO 522 - Evolutionary Analysis (3 cr. hr.)
CHE 477 - Advanced Laboratory I (3 cr. hr.)
CHE 478 - Advanced Laboratory II (3 cr. hr.)
CIN 208 - Introduction to Film Analysis (3 cr. hr.)
COM 203 - Introduction to Media Writing (3 cr. hr.)
COM 229 - Special Topics in Communication Studies (1-4 cr. hr.)
COM 301 - Mass Media and Society (3 cr. hr.)
COM 304 - Communication Research (3 cr. hr.)
COM 310 - Feature and Opinion Writing (3 cr. hr.)
COM 321 - Writing for Public Relations (3 cr. hr.)
COM 322 - Writing for Media (3 cr. hr.)
COM 323 - News Writing and Reporting (3 cr. hr.)
COM 329 - Special Topics in Communication Studies (1-4 cr. hr.)
COM 335 - Issues in Digital Culture (3 cr. hr.)
COM 350 - New Communication Media (3 cr. hr.)
COM 361 - Sports Journalism (3 cr. hr.)
COM 372 - Public Relations (3 cr. hr.)
COM 430 - Media Criticism (3 cr. hr.)
COM 434 - Gender Communication (3 cr. hr.)
COM 436 - Films of Spike Lee (3 cr. hr.)
COM 450 - Health Communication (3 cr. hr.)
CRM 380 - White-Collar Crime (3 cr. hr.)
CRM 383 - Crime and Inequality (3 cr. hr.)
CRM 421 - Incarceration and the Family (3 cr. hr.)
CRM 426 - Sterilization, Reproductive Technologies and Abortion (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 305 - Political Economy of Globalization (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 306 - Comparative Approaches in Political Economy (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 307 - Marxian Economics (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 311 - Economic Development (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 312 - Economic Development of Latin America (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 313 - Economic Development of Asia (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 314 - Asian Development and Emerging Markets (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 315 - African Economic Development (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 325 - Political Economy of Women (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 326 - Political Economy of Race and Class (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 335 - Resource and Environmental Economics (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 345 - Contemporary Public Policy Issues (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 354 - Leadership and Ethics in Business (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 383 - Labor Economics (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 421 - Econometrics (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 441 - International Trade (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 443 - International Finance (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 452 - Advanced Finance (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 455 - Asset Markets (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 482 - Labor Market Analysis (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 340 - Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 462 - Environmental and Outdoor Education (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 470 - Foundations of Education in American Culture (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 471 - Foundations of Modern Education (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 202 - Introduction to Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 203 - Introduction to Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 204 - Introduction to Drama (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 208 - Introduction to Film Analysis (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 210 - Introduction to Fantasy/Science Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 220 - Introduction to Western Literature I (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 221 - Introduction to Western Literature II (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 250 - Introduction to Jewish Authors (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 251 - Introduction to African-American Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 252 - Introduction to Modern American Multicultural Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 254 - Introduction to American Working-Class Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 256 - Introduction to American Indian Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 257 - Introduction to Irish Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 260 - Literature of Sports (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 261 - Introduction to Women in Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 262 - War in Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 263 - Ethical Issues in Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 268 - Psychology in Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 269 - LGBTQ Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 278 - Introduction to Film and Short Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 280 - Introduction to Mythology and the Bible (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 290 - Introduction to Literary Study (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 302 - Research Methods in Literary Study (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 305 - Film Criticism (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 306 - Advanced Writing Workshop (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 307 - New Media Literacies and ELA (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 374 - Literature for Adolescence (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 380 - Literary and Cultural Theory (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 407 - Study of English Language (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 408 - Advanced Studies in Film Analysis (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 411 - World Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 417 - American Literature 1820-1865 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 418 - American Literature 1865-1914 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 419 - American Literature 1914-1945 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 421 - Topics in African American Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 422 - American Women Writers (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 423 - Post-1945 American Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 425 - African-American Women Writers (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 428 - Topics in American Indian Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 430 - Authors, Movements, Scenes (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 431 - Arthurian Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 432 - Topics in Medieval Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 433 - Shakespeare (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 438 - Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 440 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 441 - The Age of Sensibility (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 442 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 445 - The Romantic Age (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 455 - The English Novel to 1900 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 456 - Modern Irish Drama (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 457 - Modern Irish Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 458 - Modern Irish Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 470 - Modern British Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 471 - The Modern English Novel (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 475 - American Multicultural Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 477 - Contemporary Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 480 - Studies in Critical Theory (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 481 - Genre Studies (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 498 - Independent Study (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 499 - Senior Thesis (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 500 - Old English (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 506 - Computers and the Study of English (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 530 - Chaucer (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 538 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 539 - Milton (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 547 - 19th Century British Women Writers (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 548 - Studies in British Literature 1950-Present (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 549 - Studies in Irish Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENS 486 - Seminar in Environmental Science (3 cr. hr.)
ESL 300 - Theoretical Foundations of Teaching English as a Second Language (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 310 - Ethical Issues in Kinesiology (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 351 - Philosophy of Sport (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 352 - Masculinity in Sport (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 368 - African-American Sport History (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 410 - Ethics in Sport (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 425 - History of Intercollegiate Sports in the United States (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 427 - Globalization and Sport (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 445 - Women and Sport (3 cr. hr.)
EXS 489 - Exercise Science Research Methods (3 cr. hr.)
FRE 413 - French Literature of the Seventeenth Century (3 cr. hr.)
FRE 415 - French Literature of the Eighteenth Century (3 cr. hr.)
FRE 417 - Literature of the Nineteenth Century (3 cr. hr.)
FRE 419 - Literature of the Twentieth Century (3 cr. hr.)
FRE 423 - Themes in Literature (3 cr. hr.)
FRE 425 - French Cinema (3 cr. hr.)
FSA 340 - Supporting Students with Complex Disabilities in Schools and Families (3 cr. hr.)
FSA 400 - Foundations of Education: The School in American Society (3 cr. hr.)
FSA 505 - Sociology of Education (3 cr. hr.)
GLY 359 - Sedimentary Geology (4 cr. hr.)
GLY 469 - Structural Geology (3 cr. hr.)
GLY 499 - Research Thesis in Geology (3 cr. hr.)
GRY 440 - Seminar in Geography (3 cr. hr.)
GRY 460 - Geography and Film (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 290 - Historical Methods (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 490 - Seminar (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 302 - Human Sexuality Education (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 394 - Health-Related Behavior: Formation and Change (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 465 - Legal, Ethical and Policy Issues in Healthcare (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 494 - Assessment and Evaluation of Health and Human Service Programs (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 495 - Assessment and Evaluation for School Health (3 cr. hr.)
IST 210 - The Making of the Modern World (3 cr. hr.)
IST 400 - Themes in International Studies (3 cr. hr.)
LIT 372 - Teaching Elementary School Reading and Language Arts II (3 cr. hr.)
MAT 370 - Algebraic Structures I (3 cr. hr.)
MAT 480 - History of Mathematics (3 cr. hr.)
MGT 454 - Strategic Management (3 cr. hr.)
MGT 456 - Co-op Education/Internship in Management (3 cr. hr.)
PED 313 - Leadership in Physical Education (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 202 - Modern Philosophy (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 301 - Philosophy of the Aztecs, Maya, Incas (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 320 - Environmental Ethics (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 321 - Medical Ethics (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 330 - Philosophies of Nonviolence (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 331 - War and Terrorism (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 332 - Asian Philosophy (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 333 - Ethics of Love (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 350 - Caribbean Philosophy (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 360 - Salsa as Resistance in Motion (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 380 - Feminist Social Thought (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 382 - Marxist Philosophy (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 385 - Black Feminist Thought (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 390 - Contemporary Philosophical Approaches (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 392 - Black Political Thought (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 490 - Senior Thesis in Social Philosophy (3 cr. hr.)
PHI 499 - Independent Studies (3 cr. hr.)
PHY 357 - Intermediate Physics Laboratory (3 cr. hr.)
PHY 386 - Scientific Programming (3 cr. hr.)
PHY 550 - Intermediate Astronomy (3 cr. hr.)
PHY 559 - Advanced Physics Laboratory (3 cr. hr.)
POL 240 - Introduction to Public Administration and Public Policy (3 cr. hr.)
POL 260 - Comparative Politics: Europe (3 cr. hr.)
POL 290 - Introduction to African Politics and Society (3 cr. hr.)
POL 320 - The Legislative Process (3 cr. hr.)
POL 330 - Political Parties and Social Movements (3 cr. hr.)
POL 341 - Current Issues in Public Policy (3 cr. hr.)
POL 347 - The Politics of Education Policy (3 cr. hr.)
POL 362 - Politics of Developing Nation States (3 cr. hr.)
POL 392 - Black Political Thought (3 cr. hr.)
POL 400 - Seminar in U.S. Democracy (3 cr. hr.)
POL 407 - Seminar: Constitutional Reform (3 cr. hr.)
POL 420 - The American Presidency (3 cr. hr.)
POL 441 - Comparative Public Policy (3 cr. hr.)
POL 454 - International Politics in Asia (3 cr. hr.)
POL 455 - International Politics in Latin America (3 cr. hr.)
POL 456 - International Politics in the Middle East (3 cr. hr.)
POL 461 - Europe Today: People and Politics (3 cr. hr.)
POL 470 - Justice and Society: Theory and Practice (3 cr. hr.)
POL 471 - Legal Theory (3 cr. hr.)
POL 482 - New York State Legislative Internship (15 cr. hr.)
POL 483 - Public Administration and Policy Internship (3 cr. hr.)
POL 484 - Prelaw Internship (3 cr. hr.)
PSY 404 - Applying Research Methods in Psychology (3 cr. hr.)
PSY 485 - Advanced Scientific Writing in Psychology (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 120 - Introduction to Creative Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 210 - Digital Writing with Data (4 cr. hr.)
PWR 212 - Writing Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 213 - Writing Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 217 - Reading and Writing Comics (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 222 - Tiny Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 295 - Introduction to Professional Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 315 - Writing Creative Non-Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 316 - Writing about Place (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 323 - Writing Children’s Literature (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 324 - Grant Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 330 - Rhetoric in the Public Sphere (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 340 - Writing Sports Literature (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 375 - Digital Storytelling (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 393 - Technical Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 395 - Revising and Editing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 397 - Writing for Online Publication (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 398 - Business Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 399 - Rhetoric (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 409 - The Evolution of Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 410 - Digital and Technical Writing for Community Development (4 cr. hr.)
PWR 412 - Advanced Creative Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 413 - Contemporary Poetics (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 414 - Advanced Rhetorical Theory (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 415 - Experiments in Creative Writing (4 cr. hr.)
PWR 460 - Approaches to Teaching and Tutoring Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 495 - Internship in Professional Writing (3-15 cr. hr.)
REC 303 - Sustainable Communities and Events (3 cr. hr.)
REC 380 - Programming and Leadership (3 cr. hr.)
REC 407 - Evaluation and Research (3 cr. hr.)
REC 409 - Human Resource Management in Leisure Services (3 cr. hr.)
REC 425 - Leisure Education (3 cr. hr.)
REC 430 - Therapeutic Recreation Process I: Assessment (3 cr. hr.)
REC 435 - Therapeutic Recreation Interventions I (3 cr. hr.)
REC 445 - Administration of Recreation (3 cr. hr.)
REC 460 - Camp and Outdoor Program Administration (3 cr. hr.)
REC 462 - Environmental and Outdoor Education (3 cr. hr.)
REC 469 - Environmental and Cultural Interpretation (3 cr. hr.)
SHH 370 - Articulation and Language Disorders (3 cr. hr.)
SHH 470 - Studies in Speech Pathology (1-3 cr. hr.)
SHH 473 - Neuropathologies of Language and Speech (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 229 - Special Topics in Sociology (1-4 cr. hr.)
SOC 231 - The Sociology of Race, Class and Gender (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 329 - Special Topics in Sociology (1-4 cr. hr.)
SOC 380 - White-Collar Crime (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 383 - Crime and Inequality (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 421 - Incarceration and the Family (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 426 - Sterilization, Reproductive Technologies and Abortion (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 480 - Social Movements (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 492 - Advanced Sociological Theory (3 cr. hr.)
SOC 505 - Sociology of Education (3 cr. hr.)
SPA 308 - Advanced Spanish Composition (3 cr. hr.)
SPA 423 - Themes in Literature (3 cr. hr.)
SPM 360 - Sport Marketing (3 cr. hr.)
SPM 373 - Sport Law (3 cr. hr.)
SPM 466 - Strategic Management of Sport Organizations (3 cr. hr.)
THT 461 - Seminar in Musical Theatre (3 cr. hr.)
THT 361 - Musical Theatre in American Culture (3 cr. hr.)
WGS 269 - LGBTQ Literature (3 cr. hr.)
WGS 385 - Black Feminist Thought (3 cr. hr.)
WGS 445 - Women and Sport (3 cr. hr.)