What makes a course "writing intensive"?

i_wanna_be_Brown
Wed, 06 May 2015 23:30:34 +0000

Assuming your university doesn’t have some method of distinguishing “writing intensive courses” on your transcript (some do). I would consider any class where the majority of your grade is derived from not timed, closed book writing (i.e. you have the ability and time to research and revise when constructing your work) to be writing intensive. So B and C are absolutely writing intensive. A is too, particularly if the take home exam was untimed. D is probably not.

For example most upper level biology class exams are largely “essay” based but I would not consider these classes writing intensive since all the writing was done under strict time limit with no access to source materials.