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The First-Year Writing Program (FYWP) offers the following courses open to all undergraduates at Eastern Michigan University:
• ENGL120: Composition I - Reading and Writing the College Experience, a credit-bearing elective course that counts toward graduation, introduces key concepts of college-level literacy including awareness of genre conventions and strategies, the notion of writing as a process, and the role of literacy in shaping the identities of writers as students, citizens, and individuals.
• ENGL121: Composition II - Researching the Public Experience fulfills the Effective Communication requirement in EMU's General Education curriculum and focuses on the expectations for college-level research through attention to a range of research methods and genres of writing, with emphasis on the role of inquiry, audience awareness, and revision in the processes of writing and learning at the college level.
• ENGL225: Writing in a Changing World, an intermediate-level elective building upon the concepts of genre awareness, writing as a process, and revision introduced in earlier courses, explores the variety of rhetorical situations that college-educated citizens encounter as well as the composing strategies and decision-making relevant to constructive participation in the discourse communities that make up contemporary society.
Curriculum and pedagogy for all course offerings in the FYWP grow out of program-wide learning outcomes that guide the work of instructors and students in developing and documenting the knowledge, abilities, and attitudes that support college-level writing and research. (For more detail, click the FYWP link.)
