University
Writing Program
Acting
Director:
John Duffy,
Ph.D.
Dept. Tel. (574) 631-5427
The
First
Year Composition Summer Program is designed to help under-prepared or
inexperienced writers fulfill Notre Dame’s First Year Composition
requirement.
The Program has two components, FYC 13150, a traditional 3-credit
seminar that
fulfills the University’s composition requirement, and FYC 11050, an
intensive
writing lab. Student who enroll in the First Year Composition Summer
Program
meet for seven weeks, four days per week, 2-1/2 hours each day.
Course
Descriptions. The
following course descriptions give the number and title
of each course. Lecture hours per week, laboratory and/or tutorial
hours per
week, and semester credit hours are in parentheses. The University
reserves the
right to withdraw any course without sufficient registration.
CRNs
for independent study courses may be obtained from the department
office, from
the Summer Session office, or from insideND.
FYC
11050.
First Year Composition Summer Studio
0
credits,
Mick (0-6-0)
12:00–1:00 MTWR
6/17–7/31
CRN 3488; ID # FYC
11050 01
Last
“add”
date: 6/22
“Drop”
dates: refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
Students
in the First Year Composition Summer Program also enroll in the Summer
Seminar,
FYC 13150, which meets in a computer lab on campus. In the studio,
students
practice academic writing conventions, draft and revise assignments,
and
conference with a writing specialist. This course is a co-requisite of
FYC
13150.
FYC
13150.
First Year Composition Summer Seminar—Section 01
3
credits,
Mick (6-0-3)
11:30–1:00 MTWR
6/17–7/31
CRN 3487; ID # FYC
13150 02
Last
“add”
date: 6/22
“Drop”
dates: refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
Identical
in its aims, assignments, and grading criteria as first-year
composition
courses offered during the traditional school year, students in FYC
13150 learn
how to identify an issue amid conflicting points of view and craft
arguments based
on various sources of information. The course stresses the
identification and
analysis of potential counter-arguments and aims to develop skills for
writing
a research proposal, for conducting orginal research, and for using
print and
electronic resources from the library.