Inside Higher Ed

Why I’m Excited About ChatGPT

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. 2. Moreover, just getting that first draft will serve as a teaching tool; students whose middle and ...
Slate

The Biggest Mistake I See College Freshmen Make

This fall, thanks to receiving a high score on the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition exam, hundreds of thousands of incoming freshmen are going to dodge their college or university’s ...
Smith College

First-Year Seminars

One of Smith’s strengths is its open curriculum, where students are agents of their curricular experience. Because writing is so central to intellectual growth and accomplishment, the college does ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Students and WI

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, ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Writing Intensive Courses

Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) is a pedagogical movement that has flourished at colleges and universities across the US for more than 40 years. Throughout its history, WAC has shown that ...
Boston College

First-Year Writing Seminar & Literature Core

The English Department's First-Year Writing Seminar (FWS) and Literature Core form a key part of BC's Core Curriculum. These courses are designed to complement each other by helping students to ...
Western Michigan University

First-Year Writing Degree Requirements

fulfills the writing requirement for all College of Arts and Sciences students. This writing requirement is part of the College of Arts and Sciences Essentials requirements, which build upon WMU ...
Brandeis University

Office of Undergraduate Affairs

Every Brandeis education is fueled by exploration, imagination, inquiry, creativity and participation in our diverse community. The First-Year Seminar program is an exciting launchpad for your ...
Inside Higher Ed

Why First-Year Comp Classes Give Me Hope

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 ...
The Conversation

Writing is a technology that restructures thought — and in an AI age, universities need to teach it more

Joel Heng Hartse receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is also president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

First-Year Writing Seminars

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 ...