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If you are interested in designing a WAC course at Â鶹ŮÀÉ, please review theÌýOutcome GoalsÌýfor WAC courses and the WAC guidelines for eitherÌý 1000-level replacement for ENC 1102ÌýcoursesÌýor theÌý 2000-4000-level courses.

Note that a WAC course will eventually need to be certified at the state level as a Gordon Rule course, which typically takes up to 6 months to get through all of the required departmental, college, university, and stateÌýprocesses for creating new courses or revising a previous one.Ìý

Note also that every section of a WAC course must be taught with WAC-approved syllabi.ÌýThe state will not allow the same course to be taught under two different designations.

All WAC-designated syllabi will periodically undergo reviews by the WAC Committee for re-certification of WAC status.

Faculty interested in teaching WAC courses must attend aÌý WAC training seminar, which is typically offered each Fall and Spring semester.

Outcome Goals

On completing a WAC designated course, students will be able to:

• produce both finished writing and preparatory writing (e.g., multiple drafts of formal writing, journal writing, written responses to other texts, etc.);
• use writing to engage actively with course material;
• employ critical thinking based on well-reasoned assumptions;
• demonstrate the distinction between learning-to-write activities from writing-to-learn activities;
• recognize and practice writing as a recursive process that demands substantial reworking of drafts (global revision) to revise content, organization, clarity, argument structures, etc., as distinct from editing and correction of surface error (local revision);
• demonstrate enhanced learning through global and local revision that is based on "learning-centered" grading criteria;
• demonstrate the ability to respond to readings, including student texts, during class-wide or small-group discussions and/or in informal writings;
• demonstrate disciplinary forms and styles of writing that include proper citation format;
• demonstrate the abilities to identify, understand, and edit for global organization, style, and the patterns of error recurrent in their own writing.

WAC Committee Procedures for Approving Syllabi

The WAC syllabus approval process takes between 4 to 12 weeks for existing courses that are being revised to meet the WAC criteria. WAC syllabi for new courses take approximately 8 to 16 weeks to approve. The process is outlined below:

1. Review WAC criteria and use them to develop your syllabus.
   WAC criteria for 1000-level courses / ENC 1102 replacements
   WAC criteria for 2000-4000 level courses
2. Submit syllabus and sample assignment to Director of WAC program via e-mail.
3. WAC program Director and Assistant Director review the syllabus and offer suggestions in anticipation of the WAC Committee review (often faculty revise before an official WAC Committee review).
4. Syllabus is sent to at least two members of the University WAC committee for review with a two-week deadline for feedback.
5. Recommendations from the reviewers (when applicable) are forwarded to authors.
6. If necessary, syllabi are revised and resubmitted for a second committee review.
7. If the syllabus is for an College Writing / ENC 1102 replacement, the syllabus must also be approved by the English Department's Writing Committee.
8. Departmental approval can be obtained before or after WAC committee review.
9. College Curriculum Committee review typically occurs after WAC approval (and, if applicable, Writing Committee approval).
10. Approval notice is sent to faculty and other parties as appropriate (such as the University Undergraduate Programs Committee).
11. Faculty complete and submit the appropriate UUPC course form and submit it with the syllabus by the agenda items deadline before the next scheduled UUPC meeting.
    University Undergraduate Programs Committee websiteÌý
12. If the course is new, faculty member contacts the Registrar’s Office for a course number.
13. After formal approval by UUPC, the syllabus is forwarded to the Faculty Senate for approval.
14. New courses are then sent to Tallahassee for State certification.

UUPC Documents

Once your course is approved by WAC, your department, and your college, you will need to submit the appropriate form to the University Undergraduate Programs Committee approximately ten daysÌýbefore the committee meets. The UUPC typically meets the first or second Monday of every month from 10:00 a.m. to noon.

Visit the UUPC website to view meeting dates and agenda item deadlines.Ìý