AWP Courses
AWP 3: Analytical Writing
AWP 3 provides underprepared writers the opportunity to develop their critical thinking and writing abilities. At the end of AWP 3, students will produce a portfolio of work that will determine their readiness to enter the college writing programs.
Replaces AWP 1. The 4 units earned in this course will count toward graduation units. Passing AWP 3 fulfills the ELWR.
AWP 4A: Analytical Writing and Academic English A
AWP 4A is the first of a two-term sequence designed to offer students who need extra English language support the opportunity to develop their critical thinking and writing abilities over two terms. Students who enroll in AWP 4A are required to enroll in AWP 4B in the subsequent term.
Replaced AWP 2A. Pass/No Pass only. Students must earn a Pass to move on to AWP 4B. The 4 units earned in this course will count toward graduation units.
AWP 4B: Analytical Writing and Academic English B
AWP 4B is the second of a two-term sequence designed to offer students who need extra English language support the opportunity to develop their critical thinking and writing abilities over two terms. At the end of AWP 4B, students will produce a portfolio of work that will determine their readiness to enter the college writing programs.
Students must earn a grade of C or better in AWP 4B to satisfy the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement. If a grade of C or better is not earned, students are placed in AWP 3. Students cannot repeat the AWP 4A-4B sequence.
Replaces AWP 2B. The 4 units earned in this course will count toward graduation units. Passing AWP 4B fulfills the ELWR.
AWP 10: Language and Learning in the American Academy
This analytical writing course provides students a critical lens through which they can explore, through writing, debates about identity, language, and learning in higher education. In this course, students engage in critical thinking, reading, and writing practices necessary for success in the American academy. AWP 10 offered after Winter 2019 fulfills the undergraduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Requirement (DEI). This course cannot be used to fulfill the ELWR.
AWP 100: Writing a Researched Argument
This course offers students intensive instruction in the critical and rhetorical practices necessary to craft strong, research-informed arguments. Students also make short multi-modal presentations to practice delivering what they have written. Course topics will vary.
AWP 101: Writing About Science
Students write about scientific topics for non-scientific audiences, engaging with current debates in the sciences, analyzing the rhetorical strategies employed, and composing rhetorically strategic responses of their own. Students also make short multi-modal presentations to practice delivering what they have written. The intensive focus on writing and revising is especially useful for students who want to develop their writing.
AWP 102: Writing for the Professions
Students use writing to explore and to create a professional identity. Assignments range from articulating the questions and problems that students hope to explore in their professional lives, to understanding the current conversations in their chosen professions, to fashioning resumes, cover letters, and presentations that declare what they hope to contribute professionally. The intensive focus on writing and revising is especially useful for students who want to develop their writing.
AWP 103: Writing About the Law
Students write about legal topics for a general audience. Students will examine the rhetorical strategies employed by various stakeholders in controversial Supreme Court cases. They will then weigh in, composing their own strategic arguments. Students will also make short multi-modal presentations to practice delivering what they have written. The intensive focus on writing and revising is especially useful for students who want to develop their writing.
AWP 500: Apprentice Teaching
Under supervision of the Analytical Writing Program Director, consideration of pedagogical methods appropriate to undergraduate teaching of analytical writing, especially with regards to courses that fulfill ELWR. The course is required of all graduate teaching assistants who are engaged in or supporting instruction in the university’s Analytical Writing Program. The course is potentially open to other graduate students seeking expertise in writing pedagogy, contingent upon the approval of the director.
AWP 1: Analytical Writing
AWP 1 provides underprepared writers the opportunity to develop their critical thinking and writing abilities. At the end of AWP 1, students will produce a portfolio of work that will determine their readiness to enter the college writing programs. Passing AWP 1 fulfills the ELWR.
(Last offered in Summer 2020)
AWP 2A: Analytical Writing and Academic English A
AWP 2A is the first of a two-term course designed to offer students who need extra English language support the opportunity to develop their critical thinking and writing abilities over two terms. Students who enroll in AWP 2A are required to enroll in AWP 2B in the subsequent term.
Students who successfully complete AWP 2A will receive a grade of IP (In Progress) at the end of the term.
(Last offered in Spring 2020)
AWP 2B: Analytical Writing and Academic English B
AWP 2B is the second of a two-term course designed to offer students who need extra English language support the opportunity to develop their critical thinking and writing abilities over two terms. At the end of AWP 2B, students will produce a portfolio of work that will determine their readiness to enter the college writing programs.
Students must earn a grade of C or better in AWP 2A-2B to satisfy the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement. If a grade of C or better is not earned, students are placed in AWP 1. Students cannot repeat the AWP 2A-2B sequence. Passing AWP 2B fulfills the ELWR.
(Last offered in Fall 2020)