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Writing Program

Writing Program courses are listed below.

The Writing Program offers creative, expository, and professional writing courses in which students work to improve their skills by reading examples of good prose or poetry, writing their own works, and discussing them in a workshop format. The Writing Program also sponsors a magazine of student work. Writing-intensive courses that help develop writing skills appropriate to a specific discipline are marked by a W in the course number. Instructors in these writing-intensive courses assign short writing exercises or drafts, emphasize revision, and teach the core skills of academic writing in their disciplines, including analysis, argument, and the proper use of sources.

Writing courses require proficiency in the English language. Students who do not meet the English proficiency requirement will be withdrawn from their writing courses by the Registrar. Students whose primary language is not English should see Harvard University English Language Placement Test information.

For more information on writing courses, students should contact the Writing Program Office.

Creative Writing

• CREA E-1 Introduction to Creative Writing

• CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing
• CREA E-50 Intermediate Fiction Writing
• CREA E-55 Character Development
• CREA E-100r Advanced Fiction Writing
• CREA E-103r Writing the Mystery Novel
• CREA E-105r Writing the Novel
• CREA E-160 Master's Workshop in Literature and Creative Writing

• CREA E-20 Introduction to Memoir
• CREA E-115r Advanced Memoir

• CREA E-22 Creative Nonfiction
• CREA E-119r Environmental Writing

• CREA E-30 Introduction to Poetry Writing
• CREA E-57 Intermediate Poetry Writing
• CREA E-110r Advanced Poetry Writing

• CREA E-45 Beginning Screenwriting
• CREA E-120r Advanced Screenwriting

Expository Writing

• EXPO E-1 Introduction to Expository Writing
• EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar
• EXPO E-10 Fundamentals of Composition
• EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing
• EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading
• EXPO E-25b Academic Writing and Critical Reading
• EXPO E-26 Advanced Academic Research and Writing
• EXPO E-35 Essay Writing

Professional Writing

• EXPO E-90 Writing and the Law
• EXPO E-265 Business Writing

• CREA E-130 Desktop Publishing

• CREA E-35 Basic Journalism
• CREA E-60 Reporting on Health, Medicine, and Biotechnology
• CREA E-135 Principles of Journalism
• CREA E-137 Feature Writing
• CREA E-140 Local News Reporting
• CREA E-142 Interviewing

• EXPO E-170 Principles of Editing
• EXPO E-510 Editing Technical Prose

Fall

• ASTR E-50/W Moons and Planets
• ENGL E-100b/W Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory II
• GOVT E-110/W The World Today
• HIST E-107/W History of the Twentieth Century: 1901-1950
• HIST E-1601/W Colonial America
• HARC E-126/W Survey of Islamic Art and Architecture
• HARC E-150/W Religious Art and Architecture in Renaissance Italy
• HUMA E-105/W Survey of Publishing: From Text to Hypertext
• MUSI E-54/W Introduction to Jazz, 1900-1945
• NSCI E-105/W Current Topics in Medicine
• NSCI E-142/W Rainforest Conservation Ecology
• PHIL E-5a/W Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Thought
• PHYS E-5/W Modern Physics for Nonscientists
• PSYC E-1125/W Behavioral Genetics
• RELI E-1015/W Comparative Religious Ethics
• SSCI E-107/W Advanced Analytical Reasoning
• STAR E-170/W History of Film: The First 50 Years

Spring

• ANTH E-20/W Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
• CLAS E-116/W Introduction to Greek Literature: Concepts of the Hero
• ENGL E-157/W The Makers of Modern Poetry
• ENGL E-215/W Cross-Cultural Studies of the Novel
• HIST E-108/W History of the Twentieth Century: 1951-2000
• HIST E-1607/W The American Revolution
• MUSI E-109/W Introduction to Musics of the World
• PHIL E-5b/W Makers of the Modern Mind
• PHIL E-118/W Introduction to Metaphysics
• PSYC E-1030/W Human Development
• PSYC E-1100/W The Physiology of Behavior
• PSYC E-1882/W Clinical Psychopharmacology
• RELI E-1010/W World Religions
• RELI E-1710/W Introduction to Hinduism
• SSCI E-182/W Psychology of the Gendered Self

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