<p>Imagine you are a professor, charged with teaching a new course. Emory University offers over 1,000 courses in a wide range of academic subjects. You are free to choose whatever subject you want. What class would you create? What would you hope students would leave your class having learned? </p>
<p>I have no idea what to write for this essay. </p>
<p>"What class would you create?" what the hell is that supposed to mean?? That doesn't even make sense. Could the admission officers be any more vague? As if writing two essays isnt hard enough already.</p>
<p>Please give me suggestion on what to write/what to talk about :(</p>
<p>You need to identify an unusual hobby or interest, something that would typically not be taught on a college campus, and make an argument for the usefulness of adding a class to Emory’s curriculum. We can’t help you choose something specifically because you need to be very familiar with the issue in order to do a good job with your essay.</p>
<p>There is nothing vague about it. It’s just a prompt trying to probe your intellectual interests/creativity along with whether or not you’ve looked into Emory’s course offerings (because you probably should not create a class that already exists). Emory just wants you to come in having some idea of its offering and some sort of intellectual passion as opposed to “just being here because who knows what”. If you are not interested in anything other than just going to some top 20 (and thus did not actually look into course offerings, research opps., and other educational opps.), then the essay will be difficult to write. Simply use your creativity and research skills to figure out a somewhat novel course (or a current course that you might teach in a different way than expected in a typical university lecture/seminar setting), write a course description in a creative way, and write about how and maybe why (what makes you interested in the area, why do you think others should be interested. Sell your intellectual interests) you want to teach it. I know one member here who was able to do this very well. They didn’t find it vague. You find writing two supplementary essays hard? Good luck at institutions such as Emory that require you to take several writing intensive (3-4) courses before graduating regardless of your major.</p>
<p>Thanks CHD2013, and Bernie12 for the very detailed response. That clears up alot of confusion I had regarding the topic and certainly gives me one or two ideas on how to proceed with this essay.</p>
<p>I also applied and this essay at first was confusing to me as well. I decided to go toward human rights and used my experience fighting for an end to the stigma of special needs and my background with working with politics, labor unions, and protesting to come up with a class that would be helpful in creating a change I could see through the class.</p>