Five years ago, a columnist for The Daily Princetonian argued that first-year Writing Seminar should be pass/D/fail (PDF)-only. Then, when COVID-19 struck, his argument was tested: Princeton made ...

“Yeah, most people hate their writing seminars,” a junior told me outside J Street Library when I made a face to his question about whether I enjoyed my writing seminar. Immediately, a freshman boy ...

The seminars provide small class settings where students can engage with a particular topic, a professor, and their peers. Each fall, Bowdoin offers over thirty-five first-year writing seminars on ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Derek Bruff, assistant director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and senior lecturer in mathematics at Vanderbilt. You can follow Derek on Twitter (@derekbruff) ...

Stephen Dixon, a prolific powerhouse of an author and retired professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, died Wednesday of pneumonia and complications from Parkinson's disease at ...

The program offers a range of topic-driven seminars that encourage students to construct well-reasoned arguments, support them with observations and evidence, and express their ideas clearly and ...

The First-Year Writing Seminar fulfills the core requirement in Writing. Designed as a workshop in which each student develops a portfolio of personal and academic writing, the writing seminar ...