<p>I know there's a freshman writing seminar, but after that how writing-intensive are the other classes? Also, how small are the classes for the freshman writing seminar?</p>
<p>Writing seminars are sized capped. I think the number's 15. As for how much writing you have to do for your liberal arts you don't have to do much if you pick your classes well.</p>
<p>Here's my story:</p>
<p>At Cornell Days, I was talking with an engineering ambassador. I asked her about the amount of work involved in the writing seminars. She responded, "Oh, it's not much at all. Only a 7-page paper every two weeks." At this point, I started banging my head against the table. She tried to comfort me, "Well, sometimes it's every three weeks."</p>
<p>Haha That's great.</p>
<p>My writing seminar professor told me I was one of the top 3 writers he's ever had. I got half B+'s and half A-'s on my papers (with one A). I hate to see what the other students were getting.</p>
<p>My two writing seminars averaged to about six 5-page papers each. Not too bad, especially compared to the engineering workload :-)</p>
<p>There's a huge list (hundreds) of liberal studies courses you can take to fulfill the engineering requirements (you need six in addition to your writing seminars). A lot of us take the "easy" classes like psych101, econ101, that have little (or no) writing. You are required to take at least two 200+ level courses though, so there will likely be more work involved there.</p>
<p>well, my anthro 208 (the human mating one) professor told us first class that she doesn't believe in essays (reading OR writing them) but we have "short answers" on our prelims (BUT NO ESSAYS!) woohoo. love it.</p>
<p>i took personality psych with bem last yr, no essays. myers teaches it this yr, and i think its 2 out of 3 essays. so depends...</p>
<p>on a side note, how practical is psych 101? I keep hearing so much about it and how popular it is, but is that only because it's "easy" or is it genuinely interesting?</p>