GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

Composition courses are part of the Mason Core curriculum, which offers students a signature opportunity to develop writing competencies across their educational experiences that prepares them to participate in a variety of academic, professional, and civic communities. It does so in part by providing students with a "vertical" writing curriculum: a carefully sequenced series of Composition and Writing Intensive courses designed to facilitate the long-term growth of writers as they develop expertise in communicating knowledge, particularly disciplinary knowledge, across a range of contexts and audiences. Very few institutions in the nation offer students this type of vertical writing curriculum, which acknowledges the ongoing nature of writing development and the central importance of written communication to solving challenging issues facing our global society. It also recognizes the unique needs of Mason's students, including the many transfer students who become Mason graduates.....

Also known as: composition

Primary location: Fairfax United States