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The First Year Writing Program’s ENGL 110 course is an essential experience for all UD students. This course offers much more than skills-based writing practice: students engage in lab-like writing workshops designed to prepare them for the specific writing needs they are encountering in their other university courses, and they are introduced to the intellectual culture and academic habits necessary for success in a research-intensive university. For these reasons, ideally students should take ENGL 110 during their first semesters at UD.
Transfer students who have taken a writing course(s) at another college or university may be considered for ENGL 110 exemption. To review if your course is eligible for ENGL 110 transfer exemption, please visit UD’s Transfer Credit Matrix.
If students have taken a first year writing/composition course taken as a college student that is not in the UD Transfer Credit Matrix, you should fill out this form to request re-evaluation of the credit. You will need the following for the form:
- Complete syllabus for the course you took (PDF);
- Course description from the course catalog (PDF); and
- A brief paragraph describing the course you are requesting to be reviewed, and explaining why you think the course is equivalent to UD's ENGL110
Dual Enrollment Policy
As of February 1, 2024, the First Year Writing Program will begin accepting dual enrollment credit (for courses taken while a student is concurrently enrolled in high school) for courses and universities ONLY if the course is included in the UD Transfer Credit Matrix.
If the course and university is not part of the Transfer Credit Matrix, we will not accept the course as an ENGL 110 transfer exemption. ​
