<p>Are there any English classes at Brown besides Engl 110, 130 and 180 that would be suitable/not too difficult for students who are not humanities majors and who are less confident about their writing abilities?</p>
<p>Would smaller seminar-like classes be a better idea than large lecture classes?</p>
<p>I was wondering about that, too.
I need to work on my writing but didn’t know of any other classes that would help besides the Engl 110 & etc.
Any classes from other concentrations that would help with writing (but it wouldn’t be the only focus of the course)?</p>
<p>Any of the courses that start with CLAS should have a good amount of writing, but the benefit of the course not being an English course and not requiring an assignment every week or two. They are still fairly writing intensive, though. And classical literature may not be your thing.</p>
<p>I believe courses this Fall (though maybe not until spring) will have a “W” if you’re expected to get considerable feedback on your writing (where we list things like DP and LL).</p>
<p>Literary arts, philosophy, Am civ, comp lit, etc are all areas you can expect to work on writing.</p>
<p>You may want to email the Writing Center and find out what courses this fall will have Writing Fellows. That program is extremely helpful if you’re looking to get active feedback on writing but don’t want to try and get into Intro to Creative Non-Fiction or Intro to Fiction.</p>
<p>What is ENGL 0130 (Critical Reading and Writing II: The Research Essay) like? Would it be good preparation for other English classes, even though it is focused on the research essay?</p>
<p>Also, what is meant by “Writing sample may be required” in the course description? Does this mean the professor won’t let you in the class unless your writing sample is deemed good enough?</p>
<p>I personally would not recommend ENGL 11 or 13. No one I know who took that course found it useful-- it’s mostly premeds doing their English requirement and it feels a lot like AP English Lang according to the few friends I’ve had who took it.</p>
<p>^ Aren’t pre-med students expected to take their two English classes for a grade?</p>
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<p>So you would recommend skipping 130 and 110 and just jumping into the more advanced English classes? (Would that be overwhelming for a non-English concentrator?)</p>
<p>Many English classes are designed for non-concentrators. Consider picking a class on a topic you are interested in, and your writing will be that much better for that reason. </p>
<p>If you had very limited writing experience in high school – if you are coming to Brown having never written a research paper or done any sort of critical essay writing, if you know nothing about how to cite sources and writing is not a strength of yours – then consider the lower-level classes.</p>
<p>take english classes that you are interested in, rather than for their number. numbers really don’t mean much. i took a lower-level english course my freshman year on medieval literature thinking that i would enjoy it but it was terrible and i dont’ think i got much out of the course, but i took an upper-level comparative lit class last year that i absolutely loved and got an A…</p>