The Brandeis First Year Experience aims to introduce new students to faculty and their different disciplinary perspectives, to model civil discourse, and to encourage participation in the rich ...

First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...

In these venues, the College Composition Program publishes English Department Award compositions as well as other exemplary models of student writing. Compositions submitted may be from English 108, ...

The seminars provide small class settings where students can engage with a particular topic, a professor, and their peers. Each fall, Bowdoin offers over thirty-five first-year writing seminars on ...

Most directly admitted first year students at RIT will be advised to enroll in a section of First Year Writing (UWRT 150). Students who have approved transfer credit for a first year writing course, ...

Starting college can be overwhelming, but learning communities can help students navigate their new environment. Michael Witt, associate professor in the Purdue Libraries and School of Information ...

The First-Year Writing Seminar fulfills the core requirement in Writing. Designed as a workshop in which each student develops a portfolio of personal and academic writing, the writing seminar ...

First-year seminars at DePauw University are the cornerstone of a student's initial academic experience, offering a unique blend of intellectual exploration and skill development. These small, ...