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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.