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
FALL AND WINTER TERMS
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 AND WINTER TERMS
INTR 5445 - Academic Writing for International Relations for one-year MA students, Éva Ajkay-Nagy, Judit Minczinger
INTR 5451 - Academic Writing for International Relations for two-year MA students (part I), Vera Eliasova, Sharon McCulloch
Department of Legal Studies
LEGS5963 - Thesis Seminar (HR MA), Andrea Kirchknopf, Éva Ajkay-Nagy
LEGS 5770- Capstone Seminar (HR), Zsuzsanna Tóth
LEGS 5952 - Academic Writing (GBLR), Andrea Kirchknopf
LEGS5961 - Thesis Seminar (CCL), Ágnes Diós-Tóth
LEGS5952 - Thesis Writing I (SJD), Ágnes Diós-Tóth
LEGS6055 - Thesis Writing II (SJD) Ágnes Diós-Tóth
Department of Network Science
CAW5044 - Academic Writing for MS in Social Data Science, Zsuzsanna Tóth
DNDS5007 - Thesis Seminar, Andrea Kirchknopf
CAW5042 - Academic Writing for Network Science PhD Students, Ágnes Diós-Tóth
Department of Philosophy
PHIL5824 - Academic Writing for Philosophy MA Students, Andrea Kirchknopf
Department of Political Sciences
POLS5575 - Academic Writing for Political Science 2-Year MA Students I, Zsuzsanna Tóth
POLS 5258 - Academic Writing for Political Science 1-Year MA Students, Éva Ajkay-Nagy
Department of Public Policy
DOPP5427 - Academic Writing for Public Policy Students, Éva Ajkay-Nagy, Ágnes Diós-Tóth, Vera Eliasová, Sharon McCulloch, Borbála Faragó
DOPP5378 - Thesis Workshop, Ágnes Diós-Tóth, Éva Ajkay-Nagy
DOPP5325 - Writing for Policy Audicences - Sanjay Kumar
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
SOCL 5000 Academic Writing, Andrea Kirchknopf and David Ridout
Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations
DSPS6050 - Prospectus Seminar, Sanjay Kumar
Undergraduate Courses
FALL TERM
PPE
UGST4016 Introduction to Academic Writing, Éva Ajkay-Nagy, Judit Minczinger
CPS
UGST4030 Introduction to Academic Writing for CPS, Borbála Faragó, Zsuzsanna Tóth
DSS
UGST4036 Introduction to Academic Writing for DSS, Ágnes Diós-Tóth, Sharon McCulloch
WINTER TERM
CPS
UGST4023 Genres of Writing, Vera Eliasová, Sanjay Kumar
UGST4112 Creative Writing Workshop, Borbála Faragó
UGST4190 Modernist Writing, Vera Eliasová