Composition Program

Located in Tykeson Hall, the Composition Program serves thousands of students across campus each year. At the University of Oregon, all undergraduate students are required to pass two writing courses (WR 121 and WR 122 or WR 123) with the minimum grade of C- or P at the start of their undergraduate degree. Students are strongly advised to complete these courses by the end of their sophomore year. See information about placements, exemptions, petitions and waivers. 

Fulfilling the writing requirement ensures that students are prepared for the college-level writing that will be demanded of them in their respective fields and disciplines.

Here you can find helpful information about the University of Oregon writing requirement, composition program policies, and writing resources across campus. In the Composition Program, we support student learning through our program-wide learning outcomes:  

• Develop arguments in multiple genres that are relevant to students and to the audiences to which they’re addressed.
• Engage with primary, scholarly, and public sources to enrich a process of inquiry and inform students’ writing.
• Analyze how writers reflect, challenge, and transform their discourse communities, including in their relationship to formal and stylistic conventions.
• Recognize lived experience as a source of authority in writing, reading, and discourse.
• Give and receive constructive feedback; revise based on feedback, further research, and reflection.
• Apply the processes and strategies of writing to engage with new contexts and communities in the University of Oregon and beyond it.