ENGCOMP 100WDInterdisciplinary Academic Writing
English Composition · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Course in academic writing suitable for both lower- and upper-division students that helps them develop academic papers with range of complexity and length. Focus on conventions of academic prose and genres across disciplines. Written assignments include common forms of academic writing such as argument, research paper, and/or critical essay. Investigation of difference and diversity through writing and rhetoric. Critical examination of structures and institutions that promote asymmetrical power relations, and responses of diverse groups to these inequalities. Original argumentation that engages with difference and response to complexities of diverse societies. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 3, 3D, 3DS, or 3E.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.65 · from text- · "ENGCOMP 3DS" is not in this catalog version
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 3, 3D, 3DS, or 3E" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ENGCOMP 100WD
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGCOMP 3DEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 3EEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language For Engineers
3 direct requisites. Showing 10 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.