Summer Writing Program

College writing is different from high school writing.

This summer, Cooper Union is offering a unique opportunity to get a head start on one of the most important aspects of your college career: writing and thinking at the college level.

The Cooper Union Summer Writing Program

The Cooper Union Summer Writing Program is a three-week course designed to prepare students for college-level writing. The program teaches vital skills for writing across the disciplines. It is open to students who have completed high school and plan on enrolling in college.

*Rising seniors who are interested in the program may also apply, as we have created a separate curriculum designed specifically for students entering their senior year of high school. The program provides these students with advanced critical thinking and writing skills. It focuses on adapting these skills to both high school and college-level expectations.

How It Works

This program is in workshop format, with typically no more than twelve students in a group. Students receive individual attention in a supportive yet rigorous environment. During our sessions, students do hands-on, interactive work with a range of texts in the humanities and social sciences. Students will learn how to:

  • Move beyond the limits of the five-paragraph essay
  • Create critical arguments based upon close reading
  • Develop arguments fully and completely
  • Develop an approach to working with challenging texts
  • Use writing as a means to generate analysis and sophisticated ideas
  • Create writing that they are interested in
  • Make writing more enjoyable and more productive

Cooper Union's Unique Approach

The Summer Writing Program is modeled after the unique work we do at Cooper Union. Our approaches have been designed for students with a diversity of interests and learning styles. The Summer Writing Program develops skills crucial to college work in the liberal arts as well as scientific, technical, and studio-based majors.

Schedule

The Cooper Union Summer Writing Program runs from July 9 through July 26, 2012. Classes meet Mondays through Thursdays, with two sessions each day—10:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, with an hour lunch break.

Tuition

Program tuition is $2500 per student. A deposit of $500 is due by May 15. Full payment is due by June 1.

For more information, download the brochure, view our page on Facebook, email us at summerwritingprogram@cooper.edu or call (212) 353-4018.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.