<p>i’m thinking the answer is yes, but i thought i would ask you guys to make sure.</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Good thing you asked because the answer is no.</p>
<p>Unless a course outside the English department is indicated as “writing intensive”, it will not count for the English requirement.</p>
<p>what about College Writing Program or Comparative Literature?</p>
<p>Some med schools require humanities and state them separately from English. I think Classics would most definitely fulfill humanities. College Writing Program would probably fulfill English.</p>
<p>If your classics course is primarily graded via papers, it could count. Science labs are the exception.</p>
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<p>Gotta disagree here - this is incorrect.</p>
<p>Schools will not count a humanities course for the English pre-req unless the course is noted on the transcript as “writing intensive”. Unless something is on the transcript, they have no way of verifying the content or focus of a course. A large percentage of humanities courses use papers as their primary method of evaluation, but they still don’t count for English on AMCAS.</p>
<p>Agree. It is almost like ALL humanities courses use papers as their primary method of evaluation.</p>
<p>On top of my head, I can think of two writing intensive science courses at my child’s school. One is surprisingly offered by the chemistry department, and the other by the biology department. The goal of these science writing course is to train an aspiring science student to write a science paper, or most grades come from the evaluation of a science paper the student produces at the end of the semester. </p>
<p>It is actually a good training course if the student will go on to a PhD program in the future. But for some reason, most science majors seem to avoid taking one of these courses; most of them would rather take a writing class offered by the English department. I guess many science majors will be mad (or somewhat uncomfortable) when they are asked to write constantly, while humanity students happily do this all the time.</p>
<p>For the chemistry one, it is rumored that it is supposedly a joke that the chemistry department gives out the writing credit for that course. It is because it gives out only a partial writing credit, and you can not find any course anywhere which would give you the remaing portion of the writing credit needed for fulfilling the writing requirement. So it is a “useless” writing credit. Somebody in the chemistry department just has some humor.</p>
<p>Hmm…My child just finishes a science class in which 50 percents of the grade come from the paper. Being a neurotic premed, he is more stressed out by this kind of evaluation method, as he is not so sure whether he can get an A even after he turns in the final paper. But he loves that class enough to overcome his worry. I heard the professor is an expert in his field and a good lecturer.</p>
<p>As I said, it could count, meaning that it might under the right circumstances. As others have said, it must be classified as writing intensive. Some universities do not have standard ways of indicating writing intensive on the transcripts. However, it was my impression that, with department approval, the registrar will send in certification of the class being writing intensive to AMCAS.</p>
<p>To be fair, my classics classes, though I did not use them as my writing classes, were far more writing intensive than my Science Fiction Studies class that did count :D</p>