As of Spring 2018, the Writing Across the Curriculum committee supports the following positions:
MO Common Core Transfer Library and Writing as Critical Thinking (ENG 190)
The Missouri legislature, through SB 997, requires that state-funded institutions of higher education must designate courses equivalent to Composition I and Composition II for the purpose of making the transfer of credit more uniform and reasonable for students.
It is not in the best interest of this university to equate Writing as Critical Thinking with transfer library “Composition I” and ENG 010 (3 hours of elective credit) with Composition II. Our institution has one course (ENG 190) dedicated to writing instruction. Writing enhanced courses are not focused on writing instruction. If ENG 190 were equated with Comp I, and Comp II with ENG 010, then a student could take Comp I in a high school setting and never receive formal writing instruction again.
The committee currently supports a partial solution: re-design ENG 210 (once offered as “Intermediate Composition”) and use it as a transfer library equivalent for Composition II. ENG 210 would not be a required course. However, if a student wanted to transfer Comp II credit out of this institution, the student would have to successfully complete ENG 210.
ENG 210 would also be designed as a flexible writing course, a course that students might find attractive anyway. The course would incorporate three central design nodes: interdisciplinary thinking and writing, writing for self, and improving the writing process. Course content would be flexible, as long as the three nodes were the core objectives. One section of ENG 210 would need to be consistent with high school dual credit Comp II course objectives and course design.