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University Writing
After a pilot run in 2002, University Writing officially joined the Core in 2004, the same year Frontiers of Science began its own five-year test period. University Writing replaced a course called Logic & Rhetoric (in which students' own written assignments were the only texts discussed in class.) The new course, by contrast, emphasizes the interaction between reading and writing and requires students to research and compose papers on such scholarly texts as Edward Said's Orientalism and Michel Foucault's "Panopticism." "We want students to learn how to enter into conversation with other writers, and we want to draw students' attention to the language they use in their arguments," said Joseph Bizup, Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program in a 2007 interview with Spectator.
