UNIVERSITY TOWN WRITING PROGRAMME PILOT
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS FROM:
FACULTY OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES (FASS), SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (BIZ),
SCHOOL OF COMPUTING (SoC), SCHOOL OF DESIGN & ENVIRONMENT (SDE),
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING (FoE), & FACULTY SCIENCE (FoS)
Dear Students,
We are pleased to announce that all students (freshmen and seniors) from the above Faculties/Schools may apply for a place in the new University Town Writing Programme (UTWP) pilot for Semester 1 of Academic Year 2009-10.
About UTWP
NUS is pioneering an innovative model of learning and teaching integrated into residential colleges at the new University Town, scheduled to open its doors in August 2011. The U-Town curriculum will include a writing program, called the University Town Writing Program (UTWP), designed to cultivate skills in argumentative writing, critical reading, and rhetorical composition.
Each UTWP module is content driven and focused on a particular topic, with readings carefully selected to be accessible to first and second year undergraduates. The amount of reading and writing for each type of module will be roughly the same. Although each topic will reflect the concerns of a particular discipline, the writing skills you will develop are designed to be applicable to other disciplines and tasks throughout your academic life.
Two types of UTWP modules will be offered:
Analytical Modules will focus on the following skills:
- Reading critically to classify and synthesize multiple readings;
- Writing clear, precise, and comprehensive critiques of a body of texts in a chosen content area; and
- Applying established theories to new data sets developed from primary sources.
Expository Modules will focus on the skills necessary to:
- Read critically in order to posit solvable problems;
- Formulate solutions as claims and defend with them with cogent arguments;
- Articulate the underlying assumptions on which claims and reasons are based; and
- Recognize and elucidate the claims made by authors in assigned readings.
WP2201A Expository Writing: Language Death and WP2201B Expository Writing: Models of Press Freedom are the 2 pilot modules that will be offered in Semester 1, AY2009/10.
These 4 UTWP modules carry 4 MCs each, and they may be read on an S/U basis, provided that they are not being taken to fulfil a Faculty requirement which requires a graded writing module.
