NYU Precollege Noncredit Workshops

The College Writing Workshop

EXPOS-UA 30 is found in the course catalog under the College of Arts and Science's Expository Writing department.

Through the workshop, students learn to become better critical readers of others' writing as well as their own; they learn to envision and complete a complex intellectual task in writing, one that requires intuition, analysis, inspiration, and revision.

Students develop an essay that involves exploring the mind of a selected writer. Before the workshop, participants select a writer and then read a collection of his or her essays. During the five weeks of the workshop, students are taught ways to read more deeply and analytically, practice developing ideas about their burgeoning interpretations, and craft an essay that combines rigorous argument with a spirit and play of mind.

Texts and Ideas: Precollege Workshop

MAP-UA 4 is found in the course catalog under the College of Arts and Science's Morse Academic Plan department.

Texts and Ideas is the core humanities course for students in NYU’s College of Arts and Science. It introduces students to the ideals of liberal education and to the central role of humanistic study in the liberal arts and fosters appreciation of the importance of humanistic learning for society at large. Students become acquainted with some of the literary and philosophical works that have been most influential in shaping the contemporary world and with significant instances in which the ideas in these works have been debated, developed, appropriated, or rejected.

Texts and Ideas is not a survey but rather an examination of how texts influence subsequent thinking, create traditions, and reflect societal ideals. Texts and Ideas thus aims to provide a richer understanding of how cultures are constructed, modified, and represented. At the same time, students build their abilities to analyze texts critically, to reason soundly, and to write effectively—all essential skills for success in college—and develop an appreciation of the continuing cultural relevance of selected works in the humanities.

Please Note: Students must be enrolled in at least one credit-bearing Precollege course in order to be eligible for either non-credit workshop. Both residential and commuters, are eligible to participate in these seminar-style workshops which are noncredit and pass/fail. There is no additional cost.