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Alternative guides for planning

We do not yet have a final list of WI courses that are guaranteed to be offered in the Winter of 2006. In the meantime, when planning ahead for Winter 2006, please look at the "Winter General" link to see which WI courses have been offered in the past. Viewing past offerings is perhaps the most reliable indicator of future WI offerings, since any promise of future offerings is still subject to change (faculty move, die etc.; departments undergo curricular reviews and changes; brand new courses are developed and others are dropped).

CWP must balance competing needs

The Campus Writing Program understands that it would be ideal from one perspective to have a fixed slate of future WI course offerings. Although we, too, would like to serve students in this way, we also need to accommodate students by permitting faculty to propose WI courses close to the onset of each semester. Please understand that the Campus Writing Program strives to be as responsible as possible when balancing these competing issues:

1) serving students, advisors, and the registrar with course lists that enable planning;
2) serving faculty and departments, which inevitably undergo changes, some of which are unavoidable; and
3) serving students by providing as many WI courses as possible, which means accepting courses that meet with the writing board's approval even if they are proposed after the ideal deadline.

Good students should not shy away from WI courses

We regret that students are occasionally inconvenienced when they discover on the first day of class that a course is WI when it hadn't been listed as such in the Schedule of Courses. Nonetheless, we wish to remind students that the graduation requirement for writing establishes the least, not the most, that MU expects of its graduates. We hope that MU graduates will strive to be articulate, thoughtful citizens and that they will not shy away from a course simply because it is WI.