Courses by semester
Courses for Fall 2025
Complete Cornell University course descriptions and section times are in the Class Roster.
Course ID | Title | Offered |
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WRIT 1001 |
Academic Writing Workshop
This academic writing workshop is designed for students who have faced significant challenges meeting the expectations of college-level writing. Students will explore what it means to read and meaningfully engage with scholarly texts and to develop an academic inquiry. WRIT 1001 provides a small-scale learning environment for students to learn and practice strategies for drafting and revising and for producing clear and precise academic prose. |
Fall, Spring, Summer. |
WRIT 1037 |
Tutorial in Academic Writing
This writing tutorial is designed for undergraduate students who need more focused attention to master the expectations of academic writing. The course emphasizes the analytic and argumentative writing and critical reading essential for university-level work. |
Fall. |
WRIT 1390 |
Special Topics in Writing
This course provides the opportunity for students to resolve significant writing challenges that have interfered with their academic progress. Students must have ongoing writing projects on which to work. Instruction is in weekly tutorials. Interested students should go to 174 Rockefeller for more information. |
Fall, Spring. |
WRIT 7100 |
Teaching Writing
This course prepares graduate instructors of Cornell's First-Year Writing Seminars to teach courses that both introduce undergraduates to particular fields of study and help them develop writing skills they will need throughout their undergraduate careers. Seminar discussions and readings on pedagogical theories and practices provide an overview of the teaching of writing within a disciplinary context. Participants develop written assignments to be used in their own First-Year Writing Seminars. |
Fall, Summer. |
WRIT 7101 |
Writing in the Majors Seminar
Teaching assistants assigned to Writing in the Majors projects enroll in a six-week course on teaching strategies in advanced instruction. |
Fall, Spring. |