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Has the credit status of basic writing at your institution changed? If so, how?

• Until recently, all of our developmental courses and pre-college level courses counted at least toward graduation. However, due to transfer constraints we changed this.
• No, but we’re under fire to do so.
• Not since 1994
• Yes, three years ago it was covered by Millennium Scholarship and counted toward graduation. The university has made further changes this year: it is no longer funded by the English Department, but has moved to Extended Studies. There is also a push to make the course only available over the summer or online, though thankfully, we’ve won a reprieve on that one for the time being.
• Not in the last 10 years or so.
• We are attempting to get the credit status and the name of the class changed (name will be “The Writing Process”). Historically the credit status may have changed. At our school, the first-year writing class is divided into three areas: (1) Technical Writing for engineering and technical majors, (2) Business Writing for business majors, (3) English for all other majors. Once all compositions had a “basic” writing class. Now all basic writing students enroll in the English class. Administrators not connected with the classes have suggested the other units (Business and Technical Writing) don’t want to give credit to the English class.
• Not recently. We changed the program about five years ago, expanding the in-class time for the two lower level courses to 8 hours (2 lecture, 6 lab—for 5 credits on the quarter system). The final course is 5/5. Students can leap-frog a course based on performance in a lower-level course, so the program is not lock-step.
• Not in the 15 years I’ve been at RU or the 3 I’ve been at Harper.