The UMBC
Writing Intensive (WI) Program was established to provide
an intensive writing experience in the discipline. The idea
is to integrate writing into courses in all the majors
across campus giving students the opportunity to use what
they skills learned in freshman composition courses and
gain an understanding of the forms of writing used in their
major discipline.
Students who are subject to the General
Education Program (GEP) requirements, those who first enrolled as an undergraduate
in the Fall Semester 2007 or later, must fulfill the WI requirement.
The
Biology WI program combines experience in the undergraduate
laboratories with further experience in the departmental
400-level elective courses. The purpose of the program is
to model writing a scientific research paper. In the undergraduate
laboratories, students focus on writing to explain procedures,
to describe data obtained and to explain the meaning of those
data. In the 400-level electives, students practice writing
reviews of scientific research from the primary research
literature.
BIOL electives that have been approved by the UMBC Writing
Board for WI status include:
- BIOL 414 Eukaryotic Genetics & Molecular Biology
- BIOL
443 Advanced Topics in Developmental Biology
- BIOL 445 Signal
Transduction
- BIOL 453 Physiological Basis of Behavio
- BIOL 456 Plant Molecular Biology
- BIOL 483 Evolution Genes
to Genomes
- HONR 216 Phage Hunters
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