The Writing Program: Overview

Admissions to Tufts Summer Study 2008 is now closed. Please check back later this year for summer 2009 dates and deadlines.

Persuasive, provocative, and utterly engaging, writing is both a scholarly and creative pursuit. It's also one of the most essential skills a person, and college student, should have. If you love to write and want to develop discipline, style, and panache, The Writing Program provides a distinctive forum for writerly endeavors. Using both text and film, you'll learn to navigate the relationship between writer and reader and develop critical literary skills. With in-class free-writing exercises, informal sketches, drafts, and revisions, you will write three papers that build on a specific theme.

In addition to regular progress evaluations from The Writing Program instructor, you will also benefit from lectures by Tufts faculty – challenging you to push your writing in new directions and encouraging you to write across the disciplines. Visitors from years past include faculty from sociology, urban planning, English, and political science. You will also have the chance to take your writer's voice off the page, with opportunities to read your work to fellow writers, friends, and family.

Your final project will be a writing portfolio that stands as a testament to your development as a scholarly writer and an excellent sample of work to submit with your college application. The Writing Program demonstrates that the best expository writing not only exposes information, it actually advances thought and promotes action through the interactive exchange of ideas.

The Writing Program meets Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. There is a Wednesday afternoon Writing Skills Workshop offered at 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. (as needed). The cost is $1,650.

You can also combine The Writing Program with enrollment in another Tufts Summer Study option (Health Science Honors or Ethics and Global Citizenship) or take a class in the College for Juniors (for Class of 2009 only).