Writing 140:
Writing and Critical Reasoning (4.0 units)
Focuses on analytical and argumentative writing skills requisite to academic and professional writing. Emphasizes logical analysis of texts and other data, effective use of evidence, ethical argumentation, and stylistic and grammatical fluency. Requires concurrent enrollment with an affiliated General Education course in the Social Issues category. Students must achieve a satisfactory score on the verbal portion of the SAT, the USC Writing Examination, or credit for WRIT 120 or 121 bef
- WRIT 140 is offered as a concurrent writing section for the courses listed in General Education, Social Issues (SI). Follow the links below for information about these courses:
- AMST 101gm: Race and Class in Los Angeles
- AMST 274gm: Exploring Ethnicity Through Film
- ANTH 105g: Culture, Medicine and Politics
- GEOG 257g: Environment and Ethics
- HIST 225g: Film, Power, and American History
- HIST 265g: Understanding Race and Sex Historically
- IR 101xg: International Relations
- JS 211g: The Holocaust
- LING 115g: Language, Society, and Culture
- PHIL 137gm: Social Ethics for Earthlings and Others
- PHIL 140g: Contemporary Moral and Social Issues
- POSC 130g: Law, Politics and Public Policy
- REL 140g: Religion and Ethical Issues
- REL 146g: American Spirituality: Radicals, Rebels and Freethinkers
- SOCI 100gm: Los Angeles and the American Dream
- SOCI 142gm: Diversity and Racial Conflict
- SOCI 169gm: Changing Family Forms
- SOCI 225g: Sociology of Health and the Body: Social Perspectives
- SOCI 250gm: Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective
- SOCI 255g: Sociology of Globalization
- SWMS 215g: Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts