Writing Intensive (WR) Courses
Here at MCC, WR courses fall into one of the following categories: blanket or voluntary.
The following courses are always WR, regardless of instructor or section:
- All Anthropology/History/Political Science/Sociology courses
- All English & Philosophy courses
- All Honors courses
- All Humanities courses
Plus:
- BIO 114 (Natural History of Rochester)
- BIO 155 (General Biology I)
- BIO 156 (General Biology II)
- CHE 251, 252 (Organic Chemistry I and II)
- CIS 209 (Systems Analysis and Design)
- COM 130 (Media Writing)
- COM 131 (Journalism)
- COM 151 (Journalism II)
- COM 230 (Scriptwriting)
- ESL 130 (English-as-a-Second-Language)
- ESL 201 (English-as-a-Second-Language)
- ESL 145 (English-as-a-Second-Language)
- HIM 205 (Professional Practice Experience I)
- HIM 206 (Professional Practice Experience II)
- HIM 213 (Health Information Systems)
- MTH 155 (Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I)
- MTH 156 (Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I)
- NUR 111 (Fundamentals of Nursing)
- NUR 112 (Nursing Care I)
- NUR 150 (Application of the Nursing Process)
- NUR 211 (Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing)
- NUR 212 (Maternity Nursing)
- NUR 214 (Nursing Care II)
- PPE 208 (Sport Psychology)
- PPE 175 (Philosophy and Principles of Phys-Ed)
- PSY 208/EDU 208 (Guided Observation)
Voluntary WR courses vary each semester and, as with the permanent ones, they are offered from a wide range of departments--many of them STEM.
To see WR courses available for a given semester, please see the course schedule.