Advanced Composition

summer 2025

If you entered college as a freshman in Fall 1991 or later, you need to complete an Advanced Composition course in order to graduate.

This requirement will normally be completed on the Urbana campus. Courses taken elsewhere must be individually evaluated and substantial documentation of the writing component provided if they are to satisfy the requirement.

Courses are added as they are approved.

  • ACP - Advanced Composition

  • HUM - Humanities and the Arts
  •     HP - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
  •     LA - Literature and the Arts

  • SBS - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  •     BSC - Behavioral Sciences
  •     SS - Social Sciences

  • NAT - Natural Sciences and Technology
  •     LS - Life Sciences
  •     PS - Physical Sciences

  • CS - Cultural Studies
  •     NW - Non-Western Culture(s)
  •     US - US Minority Cultures
  •     WCC - Western/Comparative Culture(s)

  • QR - Quantitative Reasoning
  •     QR1 - Quantitative Reasoning I
  •     QR2 - Quantitative Reasoning II
COURSE section available TITLE ACP CS COMP1 HUM NAT QR SBS
AAS 300 Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality ACP
AAS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity ACP US
AAS 370 Immigration, Law, and Rights ACP
AAS 402 Asian American Education ACP US
ABE 469 Capstone Design Experience ACP
AE 443 Aerospace Systems Design II ACP
AFRO 310 Race and Cultural Diversity ACP US
AFRO 340 section available Dancing Black Popular Culture ACP US HP
AFRO 460 Slavery in the United States ACP
AFRO 474 The Black Liberation Movement, 1955-Present ACP
AGCM 220 Communicating Agriculture ACP
ANSC 205 section available World Animal Resources ACP
ANTH 268 Images of the Other ACP WCC HP
ANTH 270 Language in Culture ACP SS
ANTH 414 Writing Ethnography ACP
ARCH 314 History of World Landscapes ACP WCC HP
ASTR 401 Scientific Writing for Astronomy ACP
ASTR 490 Senior Thesis ACP
ATMS 315 Meteorological Instrumentation ACP
BADM 340 Ethical Dilemmas of Business ACP
BIOC 460 Biochemistry Senior Seminar ACP
BIOE 400 Bioengineering Senior Design ACP
BTW 250 section available Principles Bus Comm ACP
BTW 261 Principles Tech Comm ACP
BTW 263 Writing in the Disciplines ACP
BTW 285 Writing a Web Presence ACP
BTW 380 Global Business Communication ACP
CEE 300 Behavior of Materials ACP
CEE 340 Energy and Global Environment ACP
CHBE 431 Process Design ACP
CHEM 317 Inorganic Chemistry Lab ACP
CHEM 437 Organic Chemistry Lab ACP
CHP 396 Interdisciplinary Seminar ACP ACP
CLCV 222 Introduction to Greek and Roman Theater ACP WCC LA
CLCV 323 The Comic Imagination ACP WCC LA
CMN 220 Communicating Public Policy ACP
CS 211 Ethical and Professional Conduct ACP
CS 429 Software Engineering II, ACP ACP
CS 493 Senior Project II, ACP ACP
CS 499 Senior Thesis ACP
CW 243 The Craft Essay: Creative Reading, Reflection, and Revision ACP
CWL 227 Golden Age of Russian Literature ACP LA
CWL 241 Early Masterpieces of Western Culture ACP WCC LA
CWL 242 Modern Masterpieces of Western Culture ACP WCC LA
CWL 250 Grimms' Fairy Tales - ACP ACP WCC LA
CWL 264 Introduction to Greek and Roman Theater ACP WCC LA
CWL 271 The Holocaust in Context - ACP ACP WCC LA
CWL 322 The Comic Imagination ACP WCC LA
DANC 340 section available Dancing Black Popular Culture ACP US HP
DANC 441 Dance History Seminar ACP
EALC 327 Tokyo: Then and Now ACP NW
EALC 361 Gender and Women in East Asia ACP
ECE 316 Ethics and Engineering ACP HP
ECE 445 Senior Design Project Lab ACP
ECE 496 section available Senior Research Project ACP
ECE 499 section available Senior Thesis ACP
ECON 442 Women in the Economy ACP
ECON 451 Program Evaluation in Developing Economies ACP
EDUC 202 Social Justice, School and Society ACP HP
ENGL 109 Intro to Fiction-ACP ACP LA
ENGL 267 Grimms' Fairy Tales - ACP ACP WCC LA
ENGL 268 The Holocaust in Context - ACP ACP WCC LA
ENGL 350 Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture ACP
ENGL 360 section available Environmental Writing ACP
ENGL 477 Advanced Environmental Writing ACP
ENVS 220 Communicating Agriculture ACP
EPOL 202 Foundations of Education-ACP ACP
EPOL 310 Race and Cultural Diversity ACP US
EPOL 402 Asian American Education ACP US
ESE 360 section available Environmental Writing ACP
ESE 465 Transportation &Sustainability ACP
ESE 477 Advanced Environmental Writing ACP
ETMA 311 Humanity in the Food Web ACP HP
GEOL 201 History of Geology ACP HP
GER 250 Grimms' Fairy Tales - ACP ACP WCC LA
GER 260 The Holocaust in Context - ACP ACP WCC LA
GGIS 465 Transportation &Sustainability ACP
GLBL 280 Nuclear Weapons & Arms Control ACP
GLBL 357 Ethnic Conflict ACP
GLBL 392 Int Diplomacy and Negotiation ACP
GLBL 481 Writing on Technol & Security ACP
GWS 305 Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality ACP
GWS 361 Gender and Women in East Asia ACP
GWS 392 Chicanas&Latinas: Self&Society ACP
GWS 498 Senior Seminar ACP
HDFS 290 Intro to Research Methods ACP
HIST 140 Western Worlds: Ancient and Medieval Societies from the Mediterranean to N. Europe (ACP) ACP WCC HP
HIST 143 Modern Europe and the World - ACP ACP WCC HP
HIST 168 A History of Judaism ACP HP
HIST 170 US History to 1877-ACP ACP US HP
HIST 173 US History Since 1877-ACP ACP US HP
HIST 327 Tokyo: Then and Now ACP NW
HIST 478 The Black Liberation Movement, 1955-Present ACP
HIST 482 Slavery in the United States ACP
HIST 498 Research and Writing Seminar ACP
HK 300 Health Behavior Theories and Applications ACP BSC
HK 340 Social & Psychological Aspects of Physical Activity ACP
HORT 223 The Intelligent Behavior of Plants ACP LS
IB 203 Ecology ACP
IB 271 Organismal Biology ACP
INFO 303 section available Writing Across Media ACP
IS 312 section available Reading and Writing Data ACP LA
JOUR 200 section available Introduction to Journalism ACP
JS 120 A History of Judaism ACP HP
LA 314 History of World Landscapes ACP WCC HP
LING 301 Elements of Syntax ACP
LLS 305 Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality ACP
LLS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity ACP US
LLS 372 Immigration, Law, and Rights ACP
LLS 385 Theory and Methods in LLS ACP
LLS 392 Chicanas&Latinas: Self&Society ACP
MACS 101 section available Introduction to the Media ACP
ME 470 Senior Design Project ACP
MSE 307 Materials Laboratory I ACP
MSE 308 Materials Laboratory II ACP
MUS 244 Social Foundations of Music Ed ACP
NPRE 481 Writing on Technol & Security ACP
NRES 220 Communicating Agriculture ACP
NRES 419 Env and Plant Ecosystems ACP
PHIL 100 Intro to Philosophy-ACP ACP HP
PHIL 104 Intro to Ethics-ACP ACP HP
PHIL 316 Ethics and Engineering ACP HP
PHIL 419 Space, Time, and Matter-ACP ACP
PHYS 280 Nuclear Weapons & Arms Control ACP
PHYS 419 Space, Time, and Matter-ACP ACP
PHYS 496 Communicating in Physics—Writing Papers and Giving Talks ACP
PLPA 200 Plants, Pathogens, and People ACP LS
PS 281 Intro to Intl Relations-ACP ACP SS
PS 282 Governing Globalization ACP SS
PS 357 Ethnic Conflict ACP
PSYC 498 Senior Honors Seminar ACP
PSYC 499 Senior Honors Seminar II ACP
REL 120 A History of Judaism ACP HP
RHET 233 Adv Rhetoric & Composition ACP
RST 410 Strategic Management in Recreation, Sport and Tourism ACP
RUSS 220 Golden Age of Russian Literature ACP LA
SE 494 Senior Engineering Project I ACP
SOC 392 Chicanas&Latinas: Self&Society ACP
SOCW 300 Diversity: Identities & Issues ACP US
TAM 324 Behavior of Materials ACP
THEA 210 Introduction to Greek and Roman Theater ACP WCC LA
THEA 304 Global Theatre Performance ACP
THEA 323 The Comic Imagination ACP WCC LA
UP 312 Communication for Planners ACP
WRIT 303 section available Writing Across Media ACP