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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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General Information
Welcome to the MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies . . . providing students with the opportunity to study writing as a discipline, a means of self-expression, and a professional tool.
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photo by Nicholas Altenbernd
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The MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies gives students the opportunity to learn the techniques, forms, and traditions of several kinds of writing, from basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose, fiction and poetry, science journalism, scientific and technical communication and digital media. Our faculty consists of novelists, essayists, poets, translators, biographers, historians, engineers and scientists.
Program subjects are arranged by three areas: exposition and rhetoric, creative writing, and science and technical writing. In each area introductory subjects lead to more specialized advanced subjects. Introductory subjects are designed for students with little experience in writing. Advanced subjects are for students who have mastered the elements of sentence and paragraph structure. A number of the advanced subjects use writing as a vehicle to explore humanistic and scientific issues in a broad cultural context.
Students pursuing a humanities concentration in writing or a minor in writing work mainly within one of the Program's three curricular areas. Students may also major in writing or develop a joint major with another discipline in the humanities or with the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
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