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Junior/Senior · 6 weeks (June 21 - August 5) · 6 credits
This program is offered with the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, one of the nation's oldest and most comprehensive writing-across-the-curriculum programs. Its excellence was recognized when the Time/Princeton Review chose Cornell as its private research university "College of the Year" on the basis of its teaching students "how to use writing as a way to learn and think."
You'll gain intensive writing experience while considering subjects as varied as diversity, civil disobedience, imaginative argument, and personal experience. The four courses highlighted below feature small sections (eighteen students or fewer) and personalized instruction by faculty in the planning, composition, and revision of papers based on assigned readings and discussions.
You'll also have access to individual tutoring through the writing program's Summer Walk-In Service.
Note: English 1131 and 1132 are First-Year Writing Seminars and are accepted for undergraduate credit in Cornell degree programs and/ or also apply toward Cornell's first-year writing requirements.
To be eligible for this program, you must have completed your junior or senior year of high school by June 2008.
Courses
Select one of the courses below and pair it with any other (except another writing course) from the more than sixty on this Web site (see course roster). If you're prepared for a demanding summer, you may also enroll in the career exploration component of "Biological Research and the Health Professions" or "Topics in Engineering."
First-year writing seminars
- Reading and Writing about . . . ? (ENGL 1131). See the course overview for section descriptions.
- The Personal Essay (ENGL 1132)
English for academic purposes — For international students
Faculty
All sections are led by Cornell faculty. See individual section descriptions for names.