WRITTEN/ORAL COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENT (I.C.)

All CALS students must meet both the college's requirement for written and oral communication and the university requirement for Communications A and B. These requirements overlap significantly, but not perfectly.

To complete the CALS Communication Requirement, and the University Communications A and B Requirement, choose one course from each list: CALS- WRITTEN, CALS-ORAL, UW-COMM A, and UW-COMM B.

It is possible to satisfy all four requirements with just two courses because a course listed in two columns can meet both requirements. For example, English 203 appears in two columns; thus it satisfies both CALS-Written and UW-COMM B requirements.

Required: 5 credits

CALS-WRITTEN	CALS-ORAL	UW-COMM A**	UW-COMM B
ENGLISH 100, 105, 118, 201, 203, 317, X04, AP English*, ENGR PROF DEV (EPD) 155, 201, 392, 397, GEN BUS 300, INTEG LIB STDS (ILS) 200, LIFE SCI COM (L SC COM, formerly AG JOURN) 100, 111, 130, 212**, 430, 560,	COM ARTS 100 101, 105, 109, 181, 262, 266, 272, EPD 275, L SC COM 360	COM ARTS 100, ENGLISH 100, 118, X04, EPD 155, L SC COM 100, AP English***, or any other course noted as Comm A; see Comm A list web page	COM ARTS 262, 266, 272 ENGLISH 201, 203, EPD 397, ILS 200, L SC COM 111, 130, 212, 360, 430, 560, BACT 551, BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 152, BIOCORE 301-2, or 303-4, or any other course noted as Comm B; see Comm B list web page

NOTES:

*Course not available to students who test out of Comm-A on UW-Placement exam.

**A student may be exempt from the Comm-A requirement by the UW-Placement Exam.

***Special Combinations: The pair of courses LSC 100 plus 212, or the pair of courses EPD 155 plus 397 (recommended for engineering students) will satisfy all four requirements. Although each of these courses is predominantly written, taken as pairs they contain enough oral communication to meet both the written and oral requirements.

****AP English (language and composition version) score of 3, 4 or 5 will satisfy the CALS-Written Requirement and UW-Comm A.
AP English (literature and composition version) score of 4 or 5 will satisfy the CALS-Written Requirement and UW-COMM A.
A score of 3 on the literature and composition test will give 3 credits of literature only; this does not satisfy any of the CALS or UW communication requirements.

General Education Courses in Communication and Quantitative Reasoning Web page: http://www.ls.wisc.edu/gened/

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