Course Description
Argument and Research, WRITING 60
Enrollment and waitlists for Spring Quarter 2024 will CLOSE - April 3, 2024 at 5:00PM
Formerly Writing 39C.
Visit the course website at: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/comp for the list of themes.
Guided writing practice in argumentation, logic and inquiry. Readings are selected from current nonfiction and from materials students select from the University Library. Research strategies emphasized.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Writing
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
General Education: Fulfills College of Letters and Science 2nd Half of R&C
UC Davis:
General Education: AH
UC Irvine:
General Education: GE credit for the last course in lower division writing
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Writing II
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
not recommended (# of quarter units)
UC Riverside:
General Education: ENGL elective units
UC San Diego:
Unit Credit
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area A2-English Reading and Composition
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: C2/C
Prerequisites
Writing 45 or Writing 50
Course Fees
$40 for course textbooks.
More About The Course
Course Creators
Emily Brauer Rogers
Bradley Queen
Daniel M. Gross
Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (Chicago 2017) and The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago 2006), as well as articles in the field of writing studies that have appeared in the journals Pedagogy and Composition Forum. He has been teaching writing and rhetoric courses since 1991, his first year as a graduate student in the Rhetoric PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the ...Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (Chicago 2017) and The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago 2006), as well as articles in the field of writing studies that have appeared in the journals Pedagogy and Composition Forum. He has been teaching writing and rhetoric courses since 1991, his first year as a graduate student in the Rhetoric PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley.