2012 Freshman Writing and Core Assignments

Each week, students enrolled in the Freshman Writing Program attend three class meetings and one individual tutorial session with their instructor to review and improve their writing skills. A distinctive feature of the Writing Program is a Saturday morning class during the fall term, designed to get the weekend off to a productive academic start.

The focus for students in the Program is to sharpen their skills to write intelligently, effectively, and concisely. The end product of the Freshman Writing Program is Selected Freshman Essays, an annual volume that highlights some of the most excellent writing produced by students in the Program throughout the year.

Freshman CORE Program

At the heart of Elmira College's liberal arts curriculum are two interdisciplinary freshman courses. Drawing upon literature, the arts, and the natural and behavioral sciences, the program introduces students to the history of ideas in the Western tradition as those ideas were and are in dialogue with the cultural traditions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. A focus of the program is on the ways in which human beings come to know themselves, others, and the world in which they live. The program provides opportunities for enhancing students' skills in reading and written and oral communication.

*Please remember that both of these assignments are due the first day of that class and that you will not have time during Fall Orientation to complete them so you will need to have them finished before arriving on campus.*