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Writing and Rhetoric Program
(The Institute for Writing and Rhetoric)

  • The Writing and Rhetoric Program oversees writing instruction at Dartmouth, and administers Writing 2, 3 and 5, as well as the First-Year Seminars. 
  • The Writing and Rhetoric Program also offers courses in Speech, including Public Speaking, Persuasive Public Speaking, and Speechwriting (see next page).
  • All students must successfully complete either Writing 2-3 or Writing 5 (unless they are exempted from Writing 5) and a First-Year Seminar during their first year.  (HUM 1-2 is an alternative to the seminar.) 
  • Students exempted from WRIR 5 must take their First-Year Seminar in the fall.
  • Students who will take WRIT 5 will be placed into either a fall or winter WRIT 5 section.  Those who take WRIT 5 in the fall must take their First-Year Seminar in the winter.  Those placed into WRIT 5 in the winter must take their First-Year Seminar in the spring.
  • Students placed into WRIT 2/3 will take WRIT  2 in the fall, WRIT  3 in the winter, and will complete the First-Year Seminar in the spring.

Courses for the Interested First-Year Student

  • WRIT 2/3 (fall-winter sequence, based on placement)
  • WRIT 5 (fall or winter, based on placement)
  • First-Year Seminar (department courses numbered 7; fall, winter or spring)
  • HUM 1/2
  • WRIT 8: Writing with Media
Speech Courses
  • SPEE 20: Public Speaking (fall, winter, spring)
  • SPEE 25: Persuasive Public Speaking (winter)
  • SPEE 30: Speechwriting (spring)

Other Information

The Writing and Rhetoric Program also includes peer-tutorial programs – RWIT and the Writing Assistance Program – that support students in their writing, research, and new media activities.

Last Updated: 9/16/08