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GWAR Booklet

-Undergraduate Writing Competency-

Undergraduate students must complete their lower division English composition courses in Area A, General Education, before attempting to complete this upper division requirement.  However, if students have not satisfied the GWAR by the time they complete 72 units, a hold will be placed on their registration.  In order to lift the hold and register, students must contact the University Advisement Center (UAC), [(310) 243-3538, WH A-220] to develop a strategy and sign a contract agreeing to that strategy.  Only the UAC can lift this hold.

Undergraduates may satisfy the GWAR by meeting one of the following criteria:

  1. A score of 8 or higher on the Graduation Writing Examination (GWE), or a score of 7 or higher for those students admitted to the university prior to the 2007 Fall semester.
  2. A grade of C or higher in English 350.
  3. Credit in both IDS 397 and IDS 398.
  4. Completion of the GWAR at another CSU campus in 1984 or later, along with granting of petition for GWE exemption through the Testing Office.