On September 9, 2022, the Council on General Education approved a proposal to change how the Common Curriculum’s Writing in the Major (WIM) Proficiency and Experience is tracked on the Degree Progress Report (DPR) and replace it with program-level Writing in the Major student learning outcome.
This means that the Writing in the Major Proficiency and Experience has been removed from the Degree Progress Report, and courses that conveyed the WIM tag have been removed from the undergraduate catalog.
In concert with the Writing Board, the Office of General Education has evaluated the 69 WIM-tagged courses that previously were approved for the Writing (W) Proficiency and Experience tag on the Common Curriculum before WIM. Academic departments were contacted about their willingness to convert from a WIM to a W tag.
Following an administrative evaluation based on the W criteria, 20 of the 69 courses were identified, approved by the academic department, and changed from WIM to W in the undergraduate catalog.
In addition to the above changes, the Office of General Education updated the Common Curriculum course search with approved courses approved by the Council on General Education to meet graduation or general education requirements. We also processed the removal of tags requested by academic departments.
The July 17, 2023, update reflects the following tag additions and removals.
Added:
| ADV 3305- Writing (W) | ANTH 3301- Writing (W) | ANTH 3370 – Exploring Science (ES) |
| ARHS 1305- Creativity & Aesthetics (CA) | ARHS 3321 – Creativity & Aesthetics (CA) | ARHS 3347 – Creativity & Aesthetics (CA) |
| ARHS 3390- Creativity & Aesthetics (CA) | ASCE 3330- Writing (W) | CEE 3302- Writing (W) |
| DANC 3363- Exploring Science (ES) | ENGL 1362 – Literary Analysis & Interpretation (LAI) | ENGL 2315- Literary Analysis & Interpretation (LAI) |
| FILM 3305 – Oral Communication (OC); Quantitative Applications (QA) | FILM 3353- Historical Contexts (HC) | GERM 3311- Writing (W) |
| JOUR 3313- Community Engagement (CE) | JOUR 3313- Writing (W) | JOUR 3362- Community Engagement (CE) |
| JOUR 3362- Writing (W) | JOUR 3382- Community Engagement (CE) | JOUR 3382- Writing (W) |
| MATH 1340- Quantitative Reasoning (QR) | MATH 3311 – Writing (W) | MUHI 1305- Historical Contexts (HC) |
| MUTH 3350- Writing (W) | OREM 2375- Technological Advances and Society (TAS); Civics and Individual Ethics (CIE) | PLSC 3330- Writing (W) |
| PLSC 3334- Writing (W) | PLSC 3340- Writing (W) | PLSC 3342- Writing (W) |
| PLSC 3352- Writing (W) | PLSC 3358- Writing (W) | PLSC 3360- Writing (W) |
| PSYC 3301- Writing (W) | RELI 3386 – Literary Analysis & Interpretation (LAI) | RUSS 3341- Civics and Individual Ethics (CIE); Human Diversity (HD) |
| SOCI 3301- Writing (W) | WL 3311- Technological Advances and Society (TAS); Human Diversity (HD) | WL 3319- Human Diversity (HD) |
| WL 3323 – Human Diversity (HD) |
Removed:
| ADV 3305- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ANTH 3301- Writing in the Major (WIM) | APSM 4305- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| APSM 4315- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ARHS 4310- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ARHS 4399- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| ASAG 3380- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ASCE 3330- Writing in the Major (WIM) | BIOL 3170 – Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| BIOL 4110- Writing in the Major (WIM) | BIOL 4306- Writing in the Major (WIM) | BIOL 4364- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| BIOL 4380-Writing in the Major (WIM) | CCPA 3328- Writing in the Major (WIM) | CCPA 3355- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| CCPA 3365- Writing in the Major (WIM) | CEE 3302- Writing in the Major (WIM) | CHEM 4110- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| CHEM 4397- Writing in the Major (WIM) | CISB 4397- Writing in the Major (WIM) | DANC 4375- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| DANC 4373- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ECO 4330- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ECO 4342- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| ECO 4360- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ECO 4365- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ECO 4376- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| EDU 5327- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ENGL 2314- Oral Communication (OC) | ENGL 2315- Creativity & Aesthetics (CA) |
| ENGL 3310- Writing in the Major (WIM) | FILM 1304- Creativity & Aesthetics (CA) | FILM 2301- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| FREN 4375- Writing in the Major (WIM) | GEOL 3330- Writing in the Major (WIM) | GEOL 4320- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| GERM 3311- Writing in the Major (WIM) | HIST 3309- Writing (W) | HIST 4300- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| JOUR 3313- Writing in the Major (WIM) | JOUR 3362- Writing in the Major (WIM) | JOUR 3382- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| MATH 3311- Writing in the Major (WIM) | ME 4152- Writing in the Major (WIM) | MUHI 4302- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| MUHI 4345- Writing in the Major (WIM) | MUHI 4347- Writing in the Major (WIM) | MUTH 3350- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| PHYS 4311- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 3327- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 3330- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| PLSC 3334- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 3340- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 3342- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| PLSC 3352- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 3358- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 3360- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| PLSC 4333- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 4344- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PLSC 4370- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| PLSC 4381- Writing in the Major (WIM) | PSYC 3301- Writing in the Major (WIM) | SOCI 3301- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| SOCI 4313- Writing in the Major (WIM) | SOCI 4314- Writing in the Major (WIM) | SOCI 4376- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| SOCI 4377- Writing in the Major (WIM) | SOCI 4384- Writing in the Major (WIM) | SPAN 4302- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| STAT 3341- Writing in the Major (WIM) | STAT 4385- Writing in the Major (WIM) | STRA 4370- Writing in the Major (WIM) |
| THEA 3382- Writing in the Major (WIM) | WL 3383- Oral Communication (OC) |
Questions or concerns about the course search update can be directed to theccmail@smu.edu.