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.