University Writing for International Students

Dear Student,

All CC and SEAS students must take University Writing in their first year at Columbia. Half of the Class of 2019 will take University Writing in the fall, and the other half will take it in the spring.

Each semester, Columbia offers a few sections of University Writing geared toward non-native speakers of English who wish to focus on issues of second-language acquisition and adjusting to a new academic culture. This international section will provide extra support and instruction on sentence-level issues, while also highlighting common expectations of American academic writing, including the use of sources, paragraph length, and structural organization. The section will otherwise be identical to the typical University Writing section.

If you wish to enroll in an international section of University Writing for fall 2015, please email Advising Dean Justin Snider (justin.snider@columbia.edu) to indicate your interest no later than Saturday, July 11.

Sincerely,
The Center for Student Advising