Minor

The Minor in Writing and Humanistic Studies offers students a sustained opportunity to work in one of the program’s three options while also exploring offerings in the program’s core curriculum. It consists of six subjects focusing on Program's three options: Creative Writing, Science Writing, or Digital Media, arranged into two tiers of study as follows:

Tier I        One subject from the following:

21W.011Writing and Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Social Issues
21W.012 Writing and Rhetoric: Food for Thought
21W.013 Writing and Rhetoric: Introduction to Contemporary Rhetoric
21W.021 Writing and Experience: MIT-Inside, Live
21W.022 Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography
21W.023 Writing and Experience: Envisioning Narrative
21W.024 Writing and Experience: Culture Shock!
21W.025 Writing and Experience: Border Crossings
21W.031 Science Writing and New Media: Explorations in Communicating about Science and Technology
21W.032 Science Writing and New Media: Introduction to Digital Media
21W.033 Science Writing and New Media: Engineering Communication in Context
21W.034 Science Writing and New Media: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health
21W.041J Writing about Literature
21W.042J Writing about Shakespeare
21W.755 Writing and Reading Short Stories
21W.756 Writing and Reading Poems

Tier II        Five subjects from among the remaining subjects 

Minor advisor:
Ed Barrett
14E-336, 253-6475

ebarrett@mit.edu

How to Minor in Creative Writing

Go to the MIT Office of the Registrar website at web.mit.edu/catalogue/.

You can also view the list of WHS Undergraduate Subjects and Instructors.