BGS in General Studies: Writing Emphasis (33 hours*)

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1. Complete the following prerequisite course:
   STDEV 100 : Essential College Skills. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   STDEV 100 : Essential College Skills. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Developing essential college skills. Aims of BYU, values and goals, sound thinking skills. Learning styles and adjustment to college courses. College requirements and planning.
   
   
2. Complete the following core courses:
   ELANG 322 : Modern American Usage. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ELANG 322 : Modern American Usage. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	ELANG 223; or LING 330
   DESCRIPTION:	Current conventions and effective use of American English.
   
   
   ENGL 218R : Creative Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 218R : Creative Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   DESCRIPTION:	Individual sections dealing with poetry, personal essays, drama, fiction, or science fiction, or combinations of these.
   
   
   M COM 320 : Communication in Organizational Settings. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   M COM 320 : Communication in Organizational Settings. (3:3:1)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	GE First-Year Writing requirement. To be taken before senior year. Not for freshmen.
   DESCRIPTION:	Developing written and oral communications for professional organizations, including composing and designing employment communications. Incorporates oral presentations.
   NOTE:	Fulfills GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication requirement.
   
              : Honors Communication in Organizational Settings.
   
   

   And one additional advanced writing course from the following:

   ENGL 312 : Persuasive Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 312 : Persuasive Writing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Junior or senior status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Expository and persuasive writing focusing on practical reasons for evaluating audiences, generating and structuring an argument, and making stylistic decisions. Library research paper.
   NOTE:	Carries GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication credit.
   
   
   ENGL 313 : Expository Writing for Elementary Education Majors. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 313 : Expository Writing for Elementary Education Majors. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Junior or senior status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Learning to write as professional educators and to teach writing to children. Best taken before the professional sequence. Library research paper.
   NOTE:	Carries GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication credit.
   
   
   ENGL 314 : Writing About Literature. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 314 : Writing About Literature. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   DESCRIPTION:	Writing about the functions, meanings, qualities, and contexts of literature for specialist and nonspecialist audiences using selected critical theories. Research paper.
   NOTE:	Primarily for majors in literary studies. Carries GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication credit.
   
   
   ENGL 315 : Writing in the Social Sciences. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 315 : Writing in the Social Sciences. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Junior or senior status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Writing characteristic of disciplines that inquire into human behavior and institutions; correspondence, proposals, library paper, empirical research, and reviews.
   NOTE:	Carries GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication credit.
   
   
   ENGL 316 : Technical Communication. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 316 : Technical Communication. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Honors also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	Junior or senior status.
   DESCRIPTION:	Effective processes of written, oral, and visual technical communication, including collaborative processes. Writing for academic and professional audiences.
   NOTE:	Carries GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication credit.
   
   

3. Complete 15 hours from the following:
   ELANG 350 : Basic Editing Skills. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ELANG 350 : Basic Editing Skills. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
   PREREQUISITE:	ELANG 322 & ELANG 325
   DESCRIPTION:	Editing theory and practice, emphasizing copy editing and basic line editing.
   
   
   ENGL 220 : Composing Personal History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 220 : Composing Personal History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
   DESCRIPTION:	Composing personal history through writing, mementos, oral history, chronologies, letters, documents, journals, and other mediums.
   NOTE:	Independent Study also.
   
   
   ENGL 317R : Writing Creative Nonfiction. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 317R : Writing Creative Nonfiction. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	Engl 218R or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Creations of style and technique in prose nonfiction; discipline and practice of the writer.
   
   
   ENGL 319R : Writing Poetry. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 319R : Writing Poetry. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
   PREREQUISITE:	Engl 218R or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Creation of style and technique in poetry; discipline and practice of the poet.
   
   
   ENGL 320R : Writing for Children and Adolescents. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 320R : Writing for Children and Adolescents. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
   PREREQUISITE:	ENGL 218R
   DESCRIPTION:	Theory and practice of writing prose and verse for youth readership. Specific attention to requirements of picture books, middle-grade novels, and young adult stories.
   
   
   HIST 433 : Writing Narrative Biographies. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   HIST 433 : Writing Narrative Biographies. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   DESCRIPTION:	Workshop in writing narrative family, local, and social history, emphasizing the problems of writing biographical narrative.
   
   
   TMA 251 : Playwriting 1. (3:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   TMA 251 : Playwriting 1. (3:4:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
   PREREQUISITE:	TMA 114; Major status or instructor's consent.
   DESCRIPTION:	Basic playwriting principles through reading, completing writing assignments, testing, and writing the first draft of a one-act play.
   
   

   BYU undergraduate campus courses (including Salt Lake Center courses) as follows:

   BYU undergraduate courses (including Salt Lake Center classes) dealing with writing or the teaching of writing under English, theatre and media arts, communications, or foreign languages may also be used to fill emphasis electives. Only one additional GE Advanced Written and Oral Communication course (Engl 312, 313, 314, 315, and 316) may be used to satisfy the emphasis elective requirements.

4. Complete the following as the last course in the emphasis:
   ENGL 495 : The Senior Course. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ENGL 495 : The Senior Course. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
   PREREQUISITE:	ENGL 295; Senior status; English major status.
   DESCRIPTION:	In-depth study of a limited area of literature, language, or criticism. Content varies; requires research and writing.
   
   
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5. Complete the following capstone course:
   STDEV 490 : Bachelor of General Studies Capstone. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   STDEV 490 : Bachelor of General Studies Capstone. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Independent Study only.
   PREREQUISITE:	STDEV 100; completion of all other BGS program requirements.
   DESCRIPTION:	Culminating course required for bachelor of general studies degree: analyze and evaluate BGS experience in light of the "Aims of a BYU Education" and summarize this experience in a reflective paper, integrate material learned in emphasis by completing a scholarly essay, and demonstrate accomplishment of learning outcomes.
   
   

*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.