Advanced First Year Writing: Special Topics

Catalog description

76-102 , Advanced First-Year Writing courses are designed for students who have demonstrated an understanding and practice of academic writing that most incoming freshmen have not, both in terms of mindful writing knowledge and experiential range. Because of the students' level of preparedness, the First-Year Writing Program provides intensive, advanced courses for students to work closely with senior faculty within the English department. Advanced courses assume that students have established strong reading and synthesizing skills, as well as a demonstrated interest in writing and communication, prior to entering Carnegie Mellon. The course topics shift each semester, but for every advanced first-year writing course, the core goals are to deepen students' rhetorical knowledge and production skills that align with the faculty member's specialty. Because the course emphasizes authentic stakes and purposes for communicating with academic audiences, students will regularly share their work with their peers in oral and written forms within an interactive and collaborative classroom environment. Students enroll through special invitation, after completing an application process. There are no prerequisites for the course. Course Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/writing-and-communication/index.html