Writing 5 Registration

Students who complete the online directed self-placement process and accept a recommendation to take Writing 5 are assigned to take the course either in the fall or winter; this assignment cannot be changed. During orientation week just before the start of fall term, when incoming students get access to DartWorks via DartHub, information about your writing placement and which term you are assigned to take Writing 5 (if relevant) will appear in the Prematriculation Credits and Exemptions section of DartWorks. Information on interpreting the information in this section of DartWorks can be found on the Registrar's website.

Please note that students who have been accepted into an approved equivalent of Writing 5 (such as fall Humanities 1) will receive notification and additional instructions for registration via email but may still show a term assignment for Writing 5 in the system. This is normal and expected. This represents your term assignment for Writing 5 should you change your mind about participation in the approved equivalent of Writing 5 and decide to take Writing 5 instead.

During the normal course registration process for the upcoming term, students who are scheduled to take Writing 5 review the sections of Writing 5 offered and elect/request the section they prefer, along with their other course elections. Whether they get into the section they elected/requested is determined during the registration processing period.

Students who did not get into their first choice during initial course election choose another Writing 5 class from among those with space available during the course changes period prior to the start of classes. Students enrolled in Writing 5 may use the online registration system to switch into a different section of Writing 5, as long as there is space available, during the course changes period or during the add-drop period in the first week of classes.

The details on the schedule for initial course election, course changes period, and add-drop period for a given term can be found on the Registrar's website. 

Writing 5 class size is limited to 16 to allow for individualized attention. Enrollment above the limit is never allowed in a Writing 5 course. Open slots are first-come, first-served. No waiting lists are maintained.

Students must successfully complete Writing 5 or its approved equivalents to fulfill the first-year writing requirement and then complete a First-year Seminar (or Humanities 2) to complete the first-year seminar requirement.

Writing 5 does not serve in partial satisfaction of the General Education requirements such as distributive requirements or the world culture requirement.