Please note, these pages are currently under construction. Should you have any questions regarding Writing Across the Curriculum, please contact Beth Myers at bmyers@adrian.edu or 517-264-3912.

WAC Courses

This page contains Writing Extensive courses that have been offered at Adrian College or that will be offered. Check the "WAC Info" page to see what courses are currently being offered. Below each course number is a brief description of the course, a link to the syllabus, and links to works written by students in each particular course.

ARTH 224
Contemporary Art History
"Spring Shower" by Megan Sykes

ARTI 223

B AD 241

B AD 242
Business and Professional Communications
This courses objective is to improve is to improve the student's written
expression through intensive practice and application of various business
an professional writing assingments.


B AD 255


COMM 218


ENGL 200
Literature and Writing
Topic: Civil Rights Perspectives
In this course we want to help you learn to become aware of the human capacity to make meaning, and to construct truth. More specifically, we want to challenge your assumptions about what the civil rights movement means to you and this culture.


"Becoming the Minority" by Megan Sykes
"Hate in a Nutshell" by Neil Campau, Jr.
"Lesbionage" by Neil Campau, Jr.
"Slowly Dying" by Megan Sykes
"Song" by Megan Sykes
Student Portfolio by Jenny Davis


ENGL 200
Literature and Writing
Topic: Perspectives of Women in Society Literature expresses and reflects upon the status of women in American society. We will examine some such American fiction, drama, and poetry, and write informally and formally in an effort to come to a richer understanding of perceptions of women in America.

"Sylvia Plath" by Brooke Blaauw

ENGL 201
Expository Writing
The Latin root of the word expository is the same root from which we get the words exposition and expose--the Latin is exponere, "to set forth, explain." So, the writing you'll do in this course will have as its focus the transfer of information (as opposed to opinion or personal expression).

ENGL 230
Methods of Literary Study
This course will show you some of the ways that English scholars read literature, and write and think and talk about literature, and it will give you practice using some of the vocabulary of the discipline as you read and write and think and talk. This course is the "gateway" to the 300-level literature courses; it will help get you ready to join an academic community of literary scholars.


FLNG 338


FLNG 358

FLNG 378
Advanced Spanish Language
Although essential elements of Spanish grammar have been presented in the earlier courses, this course will review and expand the study of grammar and higher levels of performance will be expected. Although grammar can be studied merely for the sake of grammar, in this course it will be considered within the broader context of communication in listening/speaking, reading and writing. Because of the W designation, writing will be an essential component of the course.

"El dia de los muentos" by Amanda Wickenheisen
"El cigarrillo" by Sunshine Norden
"El mejor lugar para las vacaciones" by Aletha Lippay
"Farmington, IA" by Kim Muntz
"La mision humanitaria" by JoLynn Bowen
"La quinceanera" by Jenny Rachmaciej

HIST 217


HIST 254


HIST 255


PSYC 261


SOCI 219


T ED 206


T ED 207

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