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Expository Writing Courses
EXPOS-UA 1
Writing the Essay
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
Syllabus: 2011
This is a required course in expository writing for CAS, Stern, and Education students; it is the foundational writing course. It provides instruction and practice in critical reading, creative thinking, and clear writing. It provides additional instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts, the use of written texts as evidence, the development of ideas, and the writing of both exploratory and argumentative essays. The course stresses exploration, inquiry, reflection, analysis, revision, and collaborative learning.
TISCH School of the Arts students take Writing the Essay: Art and the World (EXPOS UA-5), which focuses on developing the essay in the arts.
Special sections of Writing the Essay are reserved for the following students:
WTE: Science is specifically tailored for students who are interested in science or medicine. Course readings and assignments focus on current issues in the worlds of science and medicine. Students read and respond to essays by prominent scientists, doctors, and science writers, such as Stephen Jay Gould, Primo Levi, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Richard Selzer.
WTE: Goddard. As part of the Living & Learning options for residence halls, two floors of Goddard Hall are linked to special sections of Writing the Essay. Students
in-residence who are interested in creative writing or live performance, study and attend planned outings together. Writing the Essay assignments and discussions are shaped to invite students to incorporate these experiences into their class work.
WTE: MAP. Students combine Writing the Essay with Texts and Ideas, gaining a richer understanding of the ideas and authors in the MAP course through discussions and the development of essays. Students receive credit for both courses.
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EXPOS-UA 5
Writing the Essay: Art and the World
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
This required course for all students in the Tisch School of the Arts is designed to engage all Tisch School of the Arts freshmen in a broad interdisciplinary investigation across artistic media. It provides instruction and practice in critical reading, creative thinking, and essay writing. Students learn to analyze and interpret written texts, art objects, and performances; to use written, visual, and performance texts as evidence; and to develop ideas. The course stresses exploration, inquiry, reflection, analysis, revision, and collaborative learning.
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ASPP-UT 2
The Advanced College Essay:
The World through Art
Students in the Tisch School of the Arts are required to take this course. The course follows Writing the Essay: Art and the World (EXPOS-UA 5) and provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts, art objects and performances; using written texts as evidence; developing ideas; and in writing persuasive essays. It stresses analysis, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is tailored for students in the Arts so that course readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to that discipline.
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ACE-UE 110
The Advanced College Essay:
Education and the Professions
Students in the Steinhardt School of Education and the School of Nursing are required to take this course. The course builds on Writing the Essay (EXPOS-UA 1) and provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts from a variety of academic disciplines, using written texts as evidence, developing ideas, and writing persuasive essays. It stresses analysis, inductive reasoning, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is tailored for students in the Schools of Education and Nursing so that readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to those disciplines.
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EXPOS-UA 4
International Writing Workshop I
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
Prerequisite: EWP permission
Syllabus: Spring 2011
The first of two courses for students for whom English is a second language. The Map Requirement for NYU undergraduates is fulfilled with this course and International Writing Workshop II. Provides instruction in critical reading, textual analysis, exploration of experience, the development of ideas, and revision. Stresses the importance of inquiry and reflection in the use of texts and experience as evidence for essays. Reading and writing assignments lead to essays in which students analyze and raise questions about written texts and experience, and reflect upon text, experience, and idea in a collaborative learning environment. Discusses appropriate conventions in English grammar and style as part of instructor feedback.
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EXPOS-UA 9
International Writing Workshop II
The second of two courses for students for whom English is a second language. The Map requirement for NYU undergraduates is fulfilled with this course and International Writing Workshop 1. Provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts from a variety of academic disciplines, the use of written texts as evidence, the development of ideas, and the writing of argumentative essays through a process of inquiry and reflection. Stresses analysis, revision, inquiry, and collaborative learning. Discusses appropriate conventions in English grammar and style as part of instructor feedback.
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EXPOS-UA 13
Writing Tutorial
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
Prequisite: EWP permission.
Syllabus: 2012
Offers intensive individual and group work in the practice of expository writing for those students whose competency examination reveals the need for additional, foundational writing instruction. The course aims to better prepare admitted transfer students for the rigorous work they will have to complete in either Writing the Essay or an International Writing Workshop. The course concentrates on foundational work (grammar, syntax, paragraph development) leading to the creation of compelling essays (idea conception and development, effective use of evidence, understanding basic forms, and the art of persuasion).
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EXPOS-UA 15
A Spectrum of Essays
Credits: 4
Instructor: Pat C. Hoy II, Director, EWP
Prequisite: Portfolio review and permission by the Director, EWP
This advanced writing course changes topics from year to year and can be taken more than once for credit. Students study the changing and varying forms of the essay, read rigorously among the best published essays, and write honors-level essays of their own. Class admission requires a portfolio review by the Director, EWP.
SPRING 2012:
“A Reviewing Frame of Mind: Transforming the I”
Let us begin with a pun: The Eyes Have It. We will be thinking about just who those Is are, how many of them there are as we go about our pleasurable work as readers, thinkers, imaginers, and writers.
I want to take the course back to its origins this year, back to the familiar essay--what some still persist in misnaming the personal essay. We will dwell on the familiar essay for half a term, and then we will take up some variation of the academic essay. As we move towards the more formal end of the essaying spectrum, we will, as always, be experimenting with form. So there will be two essays and lots of writing exercises as we continue to test the essay's potential and its limits. We will be trying to determine how much analysis the familiar can accommodate without destroying its informal integrity--its elegance, its conversational nature, its quirky digressiveness, its ability to give undiminished pleasure to the reader. And then we will continue to test the formal limits of the academic--its traditional declarative, assertive structure, its love affair with heaps of evidence, its craving for proof, and its tendency to turn its back on eloquence and wit--and all the other things the familiar thrives on.
Our intellectual inquiry will focus on the way the I transforms itself in these two forms of the essay, appearing and disappearing, exalting and diminishing itself. But there will be more about the I that warrants our attention. We will also be trying to figure out just how the Reading I comes into play as we try to read and interpret complex texts whether they be prosaic or poetic, visual or sonic, or some combination of the four. We will be wondering throughout the course about just how much trouble the various Is (Reading I, Cognitive I, Disappearing I, Ego I, Writing I, Discerning I, Experiential I) can get us into as writers, just how they aid us and detract us as we work and play.
Finally, as we study these two forms of the essay, we will be writing Review Essays. Reviewing will be our primary writing task--reviewing books, movies, visual art, music, performance. There will be choice.
Our reading and viewing will be fueled by an ecclectic batch of objects: Movies by Bergman, Rossellini, Almodovar, Kieslowski, and Minghella. Roland Barthes's The Pleasure of the Text. Virginia Woolf'sJacob's Room, E.M. Forster's The Longest Journey, Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, Milan Kundera'sThe Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr'sSlaughterhouse-Five: or The Children's Crusade. Finally, James Hillman's Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account.Â
My aim is to have a rigorous and occasionally riotous good time as we study the I, investigate texts, and write amazing essays.
--Pat C. Hoy II
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EXPOS-UA 16
Advanced Essay Writing for Science
Credits: 4
Instructor: Helen Polson, Language Lecturer, EWP
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay; Portfolio review and permission of the Instructor
Syllabus: Fall 2011
This advanced writing course offers science students the opportunity to design and conduct intensive individual research, write honors-level essays for the public and for the academy, and design and deliver a professional presentation. The course will arrange for 5 professional scientists and writers to speak to the class, and students will attend 3 public events about science and writing. Students will be encouraged to present their own research at the Undergraduate Research Conference and to submit completed essays for publication in Mercer Street and a publication of Writing in the Disciplines student work now being proposed.
Students require an access code to register for the course. To arrange for a portfolio review and an access code, please contact Helen Polson at hdp205@nyu.edu
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EXPOS-UA 17
Writing in Community
Credits: 4
Instructor: Laura Weinert-Kendt, Language Lecturer, EWP
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay and permission of the Instructor
Syllabus: Spring 2011
Writing in Community is a course for students who are passionate about writing and community service and would like to explore the dynamic relationship between these two pursuits. As a team, we will head off campus each week to mentor under-served high school students in essay writing. Back on campus, we will have weekly meetings to help us enhance our writing and mentoring skills as we develop our own ideas into essays. We will study writers, artists, and filmmakers whose service and/or community engagement has become a basis for work that documents and reflects on pressing social concerns.
Students require an access code to register for the course. Interested students should contact Laura Weinert-Kendt at law320@nyu.edu.
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EXPOS-UA 18
Writing and Speaking in the Disciplines
Credits: 4
Instructor: Andrea McKenzie, Director of Writing in the Disciplines
Prerequisite: Writing the Essay. Note: Students performing independent studies projects for credit are welcome, but must obtain the course instructor’s permission and the permission of the faculty advisor involved in the project.
Syllabus: Spring 2011
This communications-intensive course introduces students to writing, researching, and presenting in the student’s own chosen discipline. Students will practice observing, analyzing and assessing the broad structure and elements of academic research writing and presentations in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences; they will then analyze writing and speaking practices in their own chosen major or minor. Elements studied will include audience, visual design, structural elements, rhetorical patterns, logic, and evidence in communicating with scholarly audiences. Students will then design and present their own critical thinking and research in oral presentations and written research. Major assignments will include oral and written design proposals, plus research results presentations and reports. Students will be encouraged to present their research at New York University’s Undergraduate Research Conference.
Independent studies students and students with questions should contact Andrea McKenzie at andrea.mckenzie@nyu.edu or am127@nyu.edu
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