Graduate Writing Requirement

Graduate students will be required to pass (or to have passed) the upper-division writing requirement before being fully classified into a graduate program, unless an earlier completion is specified for a particular program. The requirement can be satisfied through one of the following means:

1. Completion, with a grade of "B" (3.0) or better, within seven years prior to acceptance into the program of one of the following courses: EDUC 306, ENG 306, HUM 306, MGMT 306, NSCI 306, or SSCI 306 (all graduate and postbaccalaureate students, regardless of citizenship, whose preparatory education was principally in a language other than English and have a minimum score of 550 on the TOEFL, or a minimum score of 213 on the Computer Based TOEFL, who fail to achieve a "B" (3.0) or higher in one of the 306 courses will be required to retake any 306 class), or
2. Completion, with a "B" (3.0) or better, of an equivalent advanced expository writing course at another college or university within seven years prior to acceptance into the program, or
3. Satisfactory completion of the Writing Requirement Exemption Examination (WREE) offered at the university.
4. See Acceptable Documentation for Waiver of the Graduate Entrance Writing Requirement