Sample WI Syllabi

Examples of Writing Intensive Course Syllabi Across the Disciplines

http://www.anthro.uiuc.edu/faculty/syllabi/267Syllabus.doc

Anthropology: Memoirs of Africa

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/art200.htm
Art: Perception and Notation (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www.arthist.umn.edu/classes/ah3015/syllabus.pdf
Art: Art History: Art of Islam

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/BIO4930.doc
Biology: Functional Histology

http://www.rpi.edu/~croned/LabSyl02.html
Biology: Molecular Biology Laboratory

http://static4.mathcs.wilkes.edu/Gems/WIssues/BA382.htm
Business Administration: Practicing Entrepreneurship – Writing Intensive

http://lamb.cba.hawaii.edu/classes/sy366s06.htm
Business/MIS: ITM Information Systems in Organizations

http://www.wartburg.edu/business/syllabi/BA325.01-02syl-W06.htm
Business/Communications: Business Communication

Business: See also Marketing

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/chem300.htm
Chemistry: Physico-Chemistry Lab (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www2.oakland.edu/chemistry/syllabi/chm300F06.doc
Chemistry: Chemistry and Society

http://www.temple.edu/classics/epicsyl.html
Classics: Classical Epic

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/DRJCLASSICS/syllabi/IH/syllabus.shtm
Classics/Great Ideas: Intellectual Heritage: Sappho through Shakespeare

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/maxwell/teach/384/index.htm
Communications: Contemporary Ethnography of Communication

(See also Business/Communications)

http://www.albany.edu/~goodall/syllabus.html
Computer Science: Social Impact of Computing

http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/fall03/syllabus.html
Computer Science: Professionalism in Computing

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:yQNPNMrOWt0J:economics.missouri.edu/Courses/FS2006/Syllabus/4315-milyo.pdf+writing+intensive+economics+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

Economics: Public Economics

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/bus_teaching.html
Education: Curriculum and Instruction: Teaching Writing in the Elementary School

http://static4.mathcs.wilkes.edu/Gems/WIssues/Syllabus%20ED%20360%20Fall%202001.htm
Education: Methods of Teaching Social Studies for Elementary and Early Childhood

http://people.coe.ilstu.edu/lteckri/phyedsyll/syllabi/KrosneyConstance/EDFS255SU00pdf.pdf
Education: SCHOOL AS A SOCIAL INS

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/edef300.htm
Education: Foundations of American Education (Writing- Intensive)*

http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/page.jsp?id=81&c_type=category&c_id=10
English: Modern Am. Lit. Since 1916

http://www2.smumn.edu/facdev/writing/sampleSyllabi/E346syllabus.pdf
English: Am. Lit. II

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/WID/social_sciences/syllabi/linguistics.htm
English: Analysis of the English Language

http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/005/syllabus.php
English: The Great White North-Canadian Culture

http://www.engl.niu.edu/bpeters/spring00/syl600.html
English: Training in Writing Across the Curriculum

http://www.compact.org/syllabi/syllabus.php?viewsyllabus=435

ETHNIC STUDIES: Land Tenure and use in Hawaii

http://winona.edu/ifo/courseproposals/Health,%20Exercise,%20Rehabilitative%20Sciences%20(HERS)/AY2001-2002/HHP445.htm
Exercise and Sport Science: Medical Aspects of Exercise

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/geography400.htm
Geography: Urban Geography (Writing-Intensive)*

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:xyDFQ-MLeiEJ:www.geo.txstate.edu/directory/faculty/Adams/Adams3309_Fall2005.pdf+writing+intensive+geography+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

Geography: Geography of the United States and Canada

http://www.wooster.edu/geology/Geo260/Geo260.html
Geology: Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/envgeo.doc
Geology: Environmental Geology

http://www.is.wayne.edu/raronson/Syllabi/Syll371-03.htm

Great Ideas: Introduction to Cultural Studies: The “Great Ideas,” Values, and Today’s Political Conflicts

Great Ideas: See also, Classics

http://www.albany.edu/history/history316/his316f2000.html
History: Work and Workers in America

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/social_china1.html

History: Early Modern China

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/social_china2.html
History: Early Modern China

http://academics.smcvt.edu/humanities/hu101_2004.htm
Humanities: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ElKigdSq4sEJ:www.bauer.uh.edu/kacen/documents/MARK4367Fall05Syllabus.doc+university+of+illinois+writing+intensive+course+syllabi&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=21

Marketing: ADVERTISING & PROMOTION MANAGEMENT

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/math400.htm
Mathematics: Advanced Algebra (Writing- Intensive)*

http://www.rowan.edu/mars/depts/math/Syllbabi/UND.COURSES/MaSemWI.html
Mathematics: Mathematics Seminar

http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/3144/3144Syllabus.html

Music: Early Music Literature

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/art_foundations.html
Music: Foundations of Musical Thought

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/MUS4820.doc
Music: (Selected Topics): WORLD MUSIC Writing Intensive Course

http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/005/syllabus.php
Philosophy: Ethics

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/policy/syllabi/art_philosophy.htm
Philosophy: Philosophy and Cultural Diversity

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:1ajfKqLloAIJ:groups.physics.umn.edu/physed/Research/Example%2520Lecture%2520Material/syllabus.pdf+writing+intensive+physics+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9
Physics: Introductory Physics I with Laboratory

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:G5TXuwcwbK8J:www.missouri.edu/~physwww/admissions/courses_syllabus/WS2005/ConceptPhysics1150_taub.pdf+great+ideas+writing+intensive+course+syllabi&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

Physics: Concepts in Physics

http://www.physics.villanova.edu/courses/course_description.htm
Physics: Great Ideas in Physics, I. and II.

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/Syllabus/pols343.htm
Political Science: Politics of Film

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/GlobalIssuessyllabus2002.doc
Political Science: Global Issues

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/PSYC_3030.doc
Psychology: Principles and Methods of Psychological Investigation

http://www.york.cuny.edu/wac/faculty/syll_assts/syll_psyc330.html
Psychology: WI: Foundations of Research in Psychology

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:LLrGvJvkoDkJ:www.oxford.emory.edu/OXFORD/RESTRICTED/UNIVERSITY/ESyllabi/2006-Fall/gowlerrel348f06.pdf+writing+intensive+religion+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

Religion: THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ITS CONTEXTS Writing Intensive

http://www.uga.edu/religion/syl/4301ag.htm
Religion: Islamic Thought in the Caliphal Age

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ZSPWz5FzjE4J:www.english.uwosh.edu/tbis/SocialWork.pdf+writing+intensive+social+work+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4
Social Work: Introduction to Social Work

http://wac.gsu.edu/content/wi_courses/syllabi/Soc3020.doc

Sociology: Social Research Methods

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/sociology100.htm
Sociology: Introduction To Sociology (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/Syllabus/sp490.htm
Speech: The Helping Relationship

http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources/spanish300.htm
Spanish: Spanish Grammar & Composition (Writing-Intensive)*

http://www.theatre.wisc.edu/tnd120/courseDesc.html
Theatre and Drama: INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE AND DRAMATIC LITERATURE

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:7JeEfIHOd6cJ:newton.uor.edu/Departments%26Programs/AsianStudiesDept/asian_theater/syllabi/gupton_syllabus.pdf+writing+intensive+theatre+course+syllabus&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9
Theatre: History & Dramatic Literature Part I

http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/page.jsp?id=82&c_type=category&c_id=10

Women’s Studies: Biology and Gender Syllabus

http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC/disciplineIndex.jsp
Not a syllabus, but excellent specific examples and guidelines for a whole range of disciplines. Ultimately, UW-Madison

http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
Not a syllabus, but interesting WI bibliographies in major disciplines.

* Sites marked with an asterisk may not be full syllabi, but they contain important descriptions of how writing is integrated into the course.