<p>For my freshman year writing seminar, I’m thinking about:
Theatre of Everyday Life
Wal-Mart Nation - Rebeka Peeples Massengill
Social Norms and Deviance
Medicine and Belief</p>
<p>Has anyone taken these before? How’s the workload, professors, etc.</p>
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<p>Also, where can I find info about professors/classes at Princeton. I checked ratemyprofessor.com but there are only about 10 or so professors listed</p>
<p>Theater of Everyday Life is widely regarded as the best writing seminar. By “the best”, I mean that it is actually an enjoyable class; almost everyone gripes about writing seminar, but people in ToEL really enjoy the class and the professor.</p>
<p>The writing seminar curriculum is really standardized and pretty time-intensive if not too conceptually difficult (three papers, progressively longer, with a final assignment that is unique to the class (usually in a different form, like a journal entry or newspaper article, or even a video), with extensive revision and editing of papers), so as far as workload and grading goes, they’re all pretty similar. The only differences are the profs and the subject material. </p>
<p>Definitely choose a seminar that interests you. Sciencey-sounding seminars often have more technical reading for the papers, which tends to be more challenging (at least for me), so only choose a science-type on if you are really really interested in reading science articles. </p>
<p>For more info about classes and professors, go to point.princeton.edu and check out the Student Course Guide (Campus tab and then on the right side of the screen)</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of the other writing seminars, but definitely put both times for Theater of Everyday Life as your top two choices, even though one is at 8:30 am; it’s just that good.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that “Color” is particularly horrible, and the one I took, Chesapeake in Colonial America, is a lot of work, but worth it. Sutto is a good teacher although she has NO sense of humor and will say things like “settle down, you all are having too much fun here” in complete seriousness. The head of the writing center (I forget her name) teaches one that’s supposed to be good but hard, and she is an absolute terror about footnoting – she’ll definitely run your papers through Turnitin.com or even check all your sources herself. If you’re an engineer, take something like Walmart Nation or the one on food, and do NOT take one that focuses on historical or literary analysis, unless you are really into that.</p>