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I'll try to answer soon in regard to what the SFU English Department does--the short answer is that in all our writing courses we teach students about genre and to view discourse as rhetorically situated. In each course, they get to investigate genres that particularly interest or concern them. So we don't believe we need a special course in the English Department that tells them what we think they should discover--thus learning how to make similar discoveries on their own later when they develop new interests or concerns. Oops, despite my opener, I seem to be answering. Our three courses focus on university writing, academic writing, and worldly writing (defined as nonacademic/reader-oriented writing). We hope students who complete these courses (and the parallel theory courses) have learned enough to know how to adapt themselves to particular specialized discourses. For particulars, see the 2nd edition of Janet Giltrow's textbook ACADEMIC WRITING (Broadview) and chapter 10 of my textbook PROCESS, FORM, AND SUBSTANCE. On the other hand, our noncredit downtown Writing Program offers both a general course in business and professional writing (usually taught by Anne Hungerford from her own textbook, which shares the perspective of the other two) and very specialized short courses. And both our Business Faculty and Engineering School offer their own writing/communications programs. For information about the Engineering Communications Program, contact Susan Stevenson ([log in to unmask]) Rick Coe