The Arts and Sciences Council Recommendation on the University Writing Across the Curriculum Proposal

1. We endorse the spirit of a University-wide Writing Across the Curriculum program.

While all colleges should be encouraged to adopt a WAC program, each college must determine for itself both the need for and the application of such a program.

2. This Program should start with the present requirements observed in A&S, to be revisited at a later date as resources change and colleges feel out the interdependencies.

Individual colleges may end up with different requirements.

3. Colleges should be required to develop their own WAC courses, without overloading the resources of others. The same is true for departments within colleges.

See item IV.B. of the UWAC Proposal.

4. The writing assignments and total output should be more flexible (within certain standards of peer review) for individual applications.

Item III.B. of the UWAC Proposal, particularly sec. 2, may be too restrictive.

5. We need a more concerted and specifically defined means of assessment, both to determine the best writing applications and to evaluate the outcome of `writing across the curriculum' in our own environment.

While item V in the UWAC Proposal addresses this issue, it is vague on actualities and timetables.

Passed by Council with nearly unanimous vote on 25 February 2003.