The Daily Princetonian

First-year Writing Seminars undergo curriculum overhaul to improve student experience

The First-year Writing Seminar Program, a core requirement for first-year students, has undergone changes to its curriculum for the 2024–25 school year. This new curriculum will feature two main ...
The Chronicle

Duke expands writing and select seminar class sizes amid cost pressures

First-year writing courses will expand to 17 students next fall, a stark increase from the 12-student cap Duke had in 2021.
Bow Doin Polar Bears

First-Year Writing Seminar

First-Year Writing Seminars (FYWS) are small classes (16 students max) that meet twice a week. For many people, they are also one of the most memorable academic experiences of their four years at ...
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 ...
Kaleido Scope

GenAI is changing how professors teach writing. This faculty member has built a place to talk about “the conundrums that plague me.”

“Much of my first-year writing courses are about helping students to think through their reading process,” Malone said. “There is all this research in the field that backs that up, that reading helps ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Exploring Cornell’s MFA in Creative Writing First-Year Reading Series

At 5 p.m. on Nov. 15, 2024 at Buffalo Street Books in downtown Ithaca, Miklos Mattyasovszky and Sam Samakande of the Cornell MFA in Creative Writing program could be seen reciting their fiction and ...