Courses for Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-Graduate Students

Due to the different expectations of different disciplines, our courses vary from department to department. However, the general aim of all courses is to help students to develop as writers within the academic community by raising awareness of, practicing and reflecting upon the conventions of written texts in English. During the course, students will:

  • Improve critical reading skills, enabling students to think and write more clearly and incisively
  • Identify the structural features of specific academic writing genres, relevant to each discipline
  • Refine writing processes through generating ideas, drafting, peer evaluation and individual writing consultations
  • Learn to take into consideration the expectations of one’s readership with regard to academic writing discourse
  • Effectively use the work of others in writing, including use of sources and citation methods
  • Expand and improve the students' ability to work independently by exploring new strategies for learning

The Center for Academic Writing’s courses are designed specifically for each discipline, including Cultural Heritage, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Gender Studies, History, International Relations, Legal Studies, Nationalism, Network Science, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Policy and Sociology.

COURSES TAUGHT BY US THROUGHOUT THE 2025/26 ACADEMIC YEAR

Environmental Science and Policy

FALL TERM

ENVS 5059 - Academic Writing - MESPOM,  Judit Minczinger, Borbála Faragó

ENVS 5083 - Academic Writing - MESP, Vera Eliasova, Zsuzsanna Tóth

ENVS 6101 - Academic Writing for Doctoral Students, Sharon McCulloch

Department of Economics

FALL TERM

ECBS 5042 Academic Writing for EDP - Ágnes Diós-Tóth, Zsuzsanna Tóth

WINTER TERM

ECBS 5042 Academic Writing for EDP - Ágnes Diós-Tóth, Zsuzsanna Tóth

ECBS5043 Academic Writing for Econ 2 - Ágnes Diós-Tóth, Zsuzsanna Tóth, Éva Ajkay-Nagy

Department of Gender Studies

FALL TERM

GENS 5041 - Academic Writing, Borbála Faragó, Vera Eliasova, David Ridout, Judit Minczinger, Sharon McCulloch, Andrea Kirchknopf

Department of History

FALL TERM

CAW 5020 - Academic Writing for Historical Studies - Judit Minczinger, Borbála Faragó

WINTER TERM

CAW5039 Academic Writing II for Historians - (two-year MA 2nd year students) - Judit Minczinger and Borbála Faragó

Department of International Relations and European Studies

FALL TERM

INTR 5445 - Academic Writing for International Relations for one-year MA students, Éva Ajkay-Nagy

INTR 5451 - Academic Writing for International Relations for two-year MA students (part I),  Vera Eliasova, Zsuzsanna Tóth

WINTER TERM

INTR 5002 - Academic Writing for International RelationsÉva Ajkay-Nagy

INTR 5445 - Academic Writing for International Relations for one-year MA students (part II), Vera Eliasova, Zsuzsanna Tóth

Department of Legal Studies

LEGS 5961 - Thesis Seminar (HR MA), Judit Minczinger, Éva Ajkay-Nagy

LEGS 5770- Capstone Seminar (HR), Zsuzsanna Tóth

LEGS 5952 - Academic Writing (GBLR), Andrea Kirchknopf and David Ridout 

LEGS5961 - Thesis Seminar (CCL), Ágnes Diós-Tóth

Thesis Writing I (SJD), Sanjay Kumar

Thesis Writing Course for 2nd and 3rd year SJD students, Ágnes Diós-Tóth

Department of Medieval Studies

CAW 5037 - Academic Writing for Graduate Students of Medieval Studies, two-year MA Students - Vera Eliasova

CAW 5035 - Academic Writing for Graduate Students of Medieval Studies, one-year MA Students - Andrea Kirchknopf

CAW 5038 - Academic Writing for Cultural Heritage Studies, Ágnes Diós-Tóth

Nationalism Studies Program

LANG 5030 - Academic Writing for Nationalism Studies

for students of the one-year MA Program, Judit Minczinger

for 1st year students of the two-year MA Program, Sanjay Kumar

Department of Network Science

CAW5042 - Academic Writing for Network Science PhD Students, Ágnes Diós-Tóth

Department of Philosophy

PHIL5824 - Academic Writing for two year Philosophy MA 1st year students, Borbála Faragó

PHIL5826 - Academic Writing for one year Philosophy MA students, Andrea Kirchknopf

Department of Political Sciences

POLS 5015 - Academic Writing for Political Science, Zsuzsanna Tóth, Éva Ajkay-Nagy, Judit Minczinger

Department of Public Policy

DOPP5427 - Academic Writing for Public Policy Students -Éva Ajkay-Nagy, Sanjay Kumar, Zsuzsanna Tóth, Ágnes Diós-Tóth, Vera Eliasová

DOPP5325 - Writing for Policy Audicences - Sanjay Kumar

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

SOCL 5000 and SOCL 5085 - Academic Writing, Andrea Kirchknopf and David Ridout

SOCL 6121 - Narrative Writing Course for PhD students, Sanjay Kumar

FALL TERM Undergraduate Programs

PPE

UGST4016 Introduction to Academic Writing, Éva Ajkay-Nagy

CPS

UGST4030 Introduction to Academic Writing for CPS - Borbála Faragó, Zsuzsanna Tóth

DSS

UGST4036 Introduction to Academic Writing for DSS - Ágnes Diós-Tóth

WINTER TERM

CPS

Genres of Writing - Vera Eliasova and Sanjay Kumar

UGST4112 Creative Writing - Borbála Faragó