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20th-Century Fiction

Advanced Essay Workshop

Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering (ELS)

Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS)

Advanced Writing Seminar

American Literature

Aperture Foundation at The New School

Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations

Approaching plays

Approaching poetry

Approaching prose fiction

Beginning Latin: Grammar

Bestsellers: Detective Fiction

Bestsellers: The Memoir

Children's Literature

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

Comedy

Composing Your Life: Exploration of Self through Visual Arts and Writing

Consumer Culture

David Hume

Departing From Frege: Essays in The Philosophy of Language

Depression and Creative Writing Students

Documentary Photography and Photo Journalism: Still Images of A World In Motion

Don't Write a Mission Statement, Write a Mantra

Eighteenth-Century Literature: Versions of the Self in 18th-C Britain

English Composition I

English Composition II

Essay and report writing skills

Essay: For The Love of The Venus: Suzan-Lori Parks, Richard Foreman, and The Premiere of Parkss Venus; and Interview With The Playwright

Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media

Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice

Expository Writing: Exploring Social and Ethical Issues through Film and Print

Forms of Western Narrative

Foundations of Western Culture II

Getting Feedback on Writing

Guide to Writing in History

Hari Kunzru and Anosh Irani in Conversation

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee