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For a list of required classes, see Writing Class Requirements in Program Information.
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Expository Writing Classes
Writing-Intensive Classes
V40.0100
Writing the Essay
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
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 (V40.0105), 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 Conversations of the West, 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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V40.0105
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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H48.0002
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 (V40.0105) and provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts, art objects and performances; using written texts as evidence; developing ideas; and in writing argumentative essays. It stresses analysis, argument, 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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V40.0110
The Advanced College Essay:
Education and the Professions
Students in the Steinhardt School of Education are required to take this course. The course follows Writing the Essay (V40.0100) 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 argumentative essays. It stresses analysis, argument, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is tailored for students in Education so that readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to that discipline.
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V40.0115
The Advanced College Essay:
Business and Its Publics
Students in the Stern School of Business are required to take this course. The course follows Writing the Essay (V40.0100) 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 argumentative essays. It stresses analysis, argument, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is designed for students in Stern so that readings and essay writing focus on issues that are relevant to business and society.
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V40.0015
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.
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V40.0004
International Writing Workshop I
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
Prerequisite: EWP permission
The first of two courses required 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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V40.0009
International Writing Workshop II
The second of two courses required 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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V40.0013
Writing Tutorial (V40.0013)
Credits: 4
Instructor: Staff
Prequisite: EWP permission.
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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Writing-Intensive Courses
EWP's Writing-in-the-Disciplines initiative seeks to improve undergraduate students’ communication skills beyond their foundational first-year writing classes. As part of that initiative, we collaborate with other Departments to incorporate and improve communications in subject-specific classes ranging from Neurobiology to International Politics. We also partner with Departments to develop writing-intensive courses.
For more information, contact Andrea McKenzie, Director of Writing in the Disciplines, at 212 998-8857 or andrea.mckenzie@nyu.edu
Our latest offering is:
V23.0005
Pharmaceutical Drugs, Ethics and Culture
Credits: 4
Instructors: Prof. David Schiccitano, Biology; Dr. Andrea McKenzie, EWP
Prerequisite: Natural Science I and II
This innovative course blends science and the study of current pharmaceutical drug issues with communication practices. Students hone their writing and public speaking skills through discussions, papers and presentations.
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