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First-Year Composition

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About the program

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²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ FYC faculty celebrate being awarded the 2024 Writing Program Certificate of Excellence.

The First-Year Composition (FYC) Program at Texas Woman’s University is a unit within the Department of Language, Culture, and Gender Studies (LCGS). The program offers a sequence of two courses required by the Texas Common Core: ENG 1013 (Composition I) and ENG 1023 (Composition II), along with ENG 1003 (Integrated Reading and Writing Corequisite Course). These classes function as a continuum of writing development for ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ students, with a high value placed on sequential coherence and collaboration among students and instructors.

In addition to its core courses, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ FYC sponsors professional development for instructors; maintains a comprehensive OER textbook; presents on and publishes program research; offers annual teaching awards; facilitates an annual writing awards contest, and collaborates with LCGS faculty to utilize, study and staff the Digital Composition Lab.

Nationally recognized

FYC faculty receiving the Writing Program Certificate of Excellence Award at CCCC 2024 in Spokane, WA.
FYC faculty receiving the Writing Program Certificate of Excellence Award at CCCC 2024 in Spokane, WA.

In 2024, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ FYC was one of only three writing programs in the nation to be awarded the prestigious . This achievement took considerable work and is attributable, in part, to programmatic innovations in pathways to placement for developmental students, dual credit, and the creation of open-education resource textbooks.

To learn more about the award, read this story published by the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ College of Arts and Sciences. 

FYC by the numbers

2,593 FYC students served in the 2022-2023 academic year

115 sections of FYC courses offered in academic year 2022-23

32 FYC instructors working with ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ first-year students Fall 2022

All numbers provided by FYC program data and the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¹ÙÍøÏÂÔØ Factbook.

Contact us

If you have questions or comments, please email Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, PhD, at JHElliott@twu.edu.

Page last updated 2:42 PM, July 17, 2024