NSU's Quality Enhancement Plan April 2017

NSU QEP Current Campus Writing Activities | 19 Table 7 Sample Undergraduate Courses that Focus on Teaching Discipline-Specific Writing College Program(s) Course College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Criminal Justice CRJU 3250 Interview, Interrogation, and Report Writing College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences History and Political Science HIPS 2900 Research Methods in History and Politics College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Paralegal Studies LEGS 2100 Legal Research and Writing I College of Health Care Sciences Multiple BHS 4100 Academic and Professional Writing College of Health Care Sciences Exercise Science EXSC 4300 Research Methods in Sport and Physical Education College of Psychology Psychology PSYC 3000 Psychological Research Methods Graduate Unlike the undergraduate curriculum, there are no graduate-level programs that focus solely on writing. The Department of Writing and Communication has revised its M.A. in Writing program into an M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. The program’s focus has shifted slightly away from the production of texts to focusing more on the teaching of writing and digital media. The QEP Committee reviewed university-wide coursework at the graduate level for courses that focused on teaching discipline-specific writing and developed the following short list. Table 8 Sample Graduate Courses that Focus on Teaching Discipline-Specific Writing Level College Program(s) Course Master’s College of Health Care Sciences Speech-Language Pathology SLP 6070 Research Methods Master’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Conflict Resolution DCRS 5020 Research Design Doctoral College of Health Care Sciences Health Science, D.H.Sc. DHS 8180 Medical Writing Doctoral College of Health Care Sciences Multiple MHS 5205 Writing for Medical Publication Doctoral College of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences HPH 7610 Scientific Writing Doctoral College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Family Therapy SFTD 5004 Reading/Writing /Editing for Doctoral Scholars The review of NSU’s curricula shows that while undergraduate students (who attend NSU as first-time in college for the full four-year program) are required to pass two sections of first-year composition, there are few non-WRIT courses beyond the first-year that focus significant attention on writing. The first-year composition courses, however, are not typically taken by transfer students; thus, not all undergraduates currently benefit from writing instruction at NSU. At the graduate level, there are also few courses that focus significant attention on writing instruction. Based on faculty member focus-group responses from across the institution, there is also limited support for faculty members teaching those courses outside the Department of Writing and Communication in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.