Stetson University offers Writing Intensive courses from first year to fourth year, to reinforce our ongoing commitment to excellence in writing and thinking for Stetson graduates. WI courses are taught with the expectation that students learn as a result of writing, not only that they write as a result of their learning. Students looking to improve their skills at written communication--skills that employers constantly tell us are the most valued in their employees--should investigate the opportunities for taking WI courses.

Stetson requires two Writing Intensive courses in our General Education program: FSEM, the seminar for first year students, and the Junior Seminar, a Gen Ed requirement for all third year students at Stetson.

Many of our WI courses can be used to fulfill the Writing requirement.  Some exceptions exist: FSEM and JS courses cannot be used to fulfill the Writing requirement, and some upper level WI courses are available only for majors/minors. Once WI designation has been established, it is the responsibility of individual departments to make decisions about which students can enroll; the Writing Program does not control these decisions.

New WI courses:

AFST 100S,D Intro to Africana Studies

AFST 102H Hip Hop, Rap, Sex, and Film

AFST 235A Intro to African American Film

AMST 301B/H American Cultural Traditions

AMST 320H American Women's History

BIOL 497 Research Proposal (BIOL majors only)

BN 205 Professional Communication

COMM 411 Philosophy of Communication 

ENGL 207 Nature Writing

ENGL 220 Understanding Composition & Rhetoric (intro to ENGL major)

ENGL 235A Introduction to Film

ENGL 232B Shakespeare's Great Characters and their Worlds

ENGL 240A Reading Nonfiction (intro to ENGL major)

ENGL 241A Reading Narrative (intro to ENGL major)

ENGL 242A Reading Lyric (intro to ENGL major)

ENGL 243A Understanding Drama (intro to ENGL major)

ENGL 325 Grammar and Linguistics

HIST 101H Western Civilization to 1000 CE (intro to HIST major)

HIST 103H Modern Western Civilization

HIST 104H Early World Civilizations

HIST 105H Modern World Civilizations

HIST 152H American History II

HIST 210H Ancient Near East

HIST 211H History of Ancient Greece

HIST 212H History of Ancient Rome

HIST 220H Early English History

HIST 240H History of Russia   

HIST 250D Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

HIST 252H Gender in American History

HIST 254H History of American Baseball

HIST 270H The History of Modern China

HIST 271H The History of Modern Japan

HIST 313 Fall of the Roman Empire

HIST 315H Celtic Civilization

HIST 320 King Arthur

HIST 323S The French Revolution, 1770-1815: The Enlightenment, Terror, and Napoleon

HIST 329H Nazi Germany: History, Politics, and Culture

HIST 330H World War II: A Global History

HIST 331S The Holocaust

HIST 354B Southern History and Culture in the United States, 1800-present

HIST 356 H/W History of American Health Care

HIST 359H From Progressivism Through Depression: The United States, 1880-1940

HIST 361B/H The 1950s and 1960s: The First Years of Our Own Time

HIST 362H American Women's History

HUM 200A Interdisciplinary Introduction to the Arts

JOUR 100 Fundamentals of Craft and Journalism

IHSC 497 Senior Research Proposal (for majors only)

MC 392 Song Literature (Music majors only)

MUSC 197A History of Popular Music

PSYC 203 Great Experiments in Psychology (PSYC majors/minors only)

RUST320A Russian Culture Through Film