Advanced Expression
NOTE: Students who started taking classes at Northwestern in Spring 2023 or earlier should refer to the Writing Proficiency page. The information below pertains to students who start at Northwestern after Spring 2023.
About the advanced expression requirement
Fulfillment of the Advanced Expression requirement is where students demonstrate high-level achievement in their ability to Express: articulate their ideas in oral, written, visual, digital, and other media, and assemble narratives, explanations, data, and arguments that navigate carefully ordered evidence. Some students demonstrate this level via their works in a language other than English.
Courses that meet the AE requirement focus on effective communication, be it through writing, speaking or other modes of communication, in specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary contexts. Courses are typically 300-level and typically taken after the first year.
Learning objectives for AE
- understand and emulate field-specific conventions and protocols for communicating findings to a range of audiences
- develop the relationship between their voice and field-specific norms of expression, aiming to achieve control over persuasive rhetoric
Fulfilling the advanced expression requirement
Students may complete the advanced expression requirement through completion of an approved course with a grade of D or higher. As with the foundational disciplines and overlays, courses approved by a Weinberg College faculty committee are listed on the webpage (below) and may also be identified through the Undergraduate Catalog and the quarterly CAESAR class listings. Each year some courses are added to the list and others are deleted; a course must be on the approved list for the year you take it to satisfy the requirement.
A course that is used by a student to satisfy the advanced expression requirement may at the same time be applied towards a different requirement (such as a major requirement, minor requirement, foundational discipline, and/or overlay) if so approved.
2023-2024 AE COURSES
Information will be posted to this list as it becomes available. Some courses on the list will not be offered in 2023-24, but in a future year. A course approved for the advanced expression requirement and for a foundational discipline area may be applied to both at the same time. Advanced Expression courses may also count toward a major or minor or be used as an overlay. Some courses on this list have prerequisites (for example fluency in a language other than English, or department permission).
Starting September 2023 please refer to the Undergraduate Catalog for full lists. This page will only include mid-year updates.
Subject | Number | Title |
AMER_ST | 390-1 | Senior Project |
AMER_ST | 390-2 | Senior Project |
ANTHRO | 322-0 | Introduction to Archeology Research Design & Methods1 |
ANTHRO | 386-0 | Methods in Human Biology Research1 |
ANTHRO | 389-0 | Ethnographic Methods and Analysis1 |
ANTHRO | 398-0 | Senior Seminar |
ART | 360-0 | Senior Critique |
ART | 372-0 | Seminar1 |
ASIAN_LC | 300-0 | Advanced Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture1 |
ASIAN_LC | 340-0 | Advanced Topics in Korean Literature and Culture1 |
ASIAN_LC | 360-0 | Advanced Topics in South Asian Languages and Cultures1 |
ASIAN_LC | 370-0 | Literary Cultures in South Asia1 |
ASIAN_LC | 390-0 | Advanced Topics in Asian Languages and Cultures1 |
ASIAN_LC | 392-0 | Advanced Studies in Asian Film, Media, and Visual Culture1 |
BIOL_SCI | 377-0 | The Human Microbiome |
BIOL_SCI | 393-0 | Human Genomics |
BIOL_SCI | 397-0 | Senior Thesis Colloquium |
CLASSICS | 320-0 | Greek and Roman History1 |
CLASSICS | 340-0 | Greek and Roman Drama1 |
CLASSICS | 350-0 | Greek and Latin Literature1 |
CLASSICS | 380-0 | Classical Reception Studies1 |
COG_SCI | 345-0 | Presenting Ideas and Data (with PSYCH 345-0)1 |
COMP_LIT | 301-0 | Studies in World Literature1 |
COMP_LIT | 303-0 | Movements and Periods1 |
COMP_LIT | 307-0 | Studies in Gender, Sexuality and Representation1 |
COMP_LIT | 312-0 | Major Authors and Texts1 |
ECON | 398-1 | Senior Seminar |
ECON | 398-2 | Senior Seminar |
ENGLISH | 300-0 | Seminar in Reading and Interpretation1 |
ENGLISH | 305-0 | Advanced Composition |
ENGLISH | 310-0 | Studies in Literary Genres1 |
ENGLISH | 311-0 | Studies in Poetry1 |
ENGLISH | 312-0 | Studies in Drama1 |
ENGLISH | 313-0 | Studies in Fiction1 |
ENGLISH | 322-0 | Medieval Drama1 |
ENGLISH | 323-1 | Medieval Poetry1 |
ENGLISH | 324-0 | Studies in Medieval Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 331-0 | Renaissance Poetry1 |
ENGLISH | 332-0 | Renaissance Drama1 |
ENGLISH | 338-0 | Studies in Renaissance Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 339-0 | Studies in Shakespeare1 |
ENGLISH | 340-0 | Studies in 18th-Century Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 344-0 | 18th-Century Fiction1 |
ENGLISH | 351-0 | Romantic Poetry1 |
ENGLISH | 353-0 | Studies in Romantic Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 357-0 | 19th-Century British Fiction1 |
ENGLISH | 359-0 | Studies in 19th-Century Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 365-0 | Studies in Postcolonial Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 368-0 | Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 369-0 | Studies in African Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 371-0 | American Novel1 |
ENGLISH | 372-0 | American Poetry1 |
ENGLISH | 374-0 | Studies in Native American and Indigenous Literatures1 |
ENGLISH | 375-0 | Studies in Asian American Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 377-0 | Studies in Latina and Latino Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 378-0 | Studies in American Literature1 |
ENGLISH | 381-0 | Literature & Medicine1 |
ENGLISH | 383-0 | Special Topics in Theory1 |
ENGLISH | 385-0 | Studies in Literature and Culture1 |
ENGLISH | 386-0 | Studies in Literature and Film1 |
ENGLISH | 388-0 | Studies in Literature and Ethics1 |
ENGLISH | 397-0 | Research Seminar for Literature Majors1 |
ENVR_POL | 309-0 | American Environmental History (with HISTORY 309-0)1 |
ENVR_POL | 340-0 | Global Environments and World History (with HISTORY 376-0)1 |
FRENCH | 371-0 | Giants, Cannibals & Critique1 |
FRENCH | 386-0 | Gender and Writing1 |
FRENCH | 395-0 | Advanced Studies in Culture and Thought1 |
GNDR_ST | 361-0 | Gender, Sexuality and Literature1 |
GNDR_ST | 381-0 | Queer Theory1 |
GNDR_ST | 396-0 | Senior Capstone Seminar |
GERMAN | 211-0 | German Culture through Film1 |
GERMAN | 221-1 | Introduction to Literature: 1800-19001 |
GERMAN | 221-2 | Introduction to German Literature: 1900-19451 |
GERMAN | 221-3 | Introduction to Literature: 1945-today1 |
GERMAN | 223-0 | Austrian Literature1 |
GERMAN | 245-0 | Special Topics in German Literature and Culture (taught in German)1 |
GERMAN | 303-0 | Speaking as Discovery1 |
GERMAN | 305-0 | Writing as Discovery |
GERMAN | 307-0 | German Media |
GERMAN | 309-1 | Advanced Business German: the German Economy |
GERMAN | 309-2 | Advanced Business German: Marketing and Management |
GERMAN | 321-1 | Reason, Revolution, and Despair: 1800-19001 |
GERMAN | 321-2 | Myth and Modernity: 1900-19451 |
GERMAN | 321-3 | Recoveries and Transitions: 1945-Present1 |
GERMAN | 327-0 | German Expressionism1 |
GERMAN | 331-0 | Shattered Worlds: Representation after the Shoa1 |
GERMAN | 333-0 | Literature of a Divided Nation1 |
GERMAN | 345-0 | Topics in German Literature and Culture (taught in German)1 |
GERMAN | 346-0 | Topics in German Literature and Culture (taught in English)1 |
GBL_HLTH | 340-0 | Mental Health and the Arts1 |
GREEK | 301-0 | Readings in Greek Literature1 |
HIND_URD | 320-0 | Topics Hindi-Urdu Literature1 |
HISTORY | 309-0 | American Environmental History (with ENVR_POL 309-0)1 |
HISTORY | 319-0 | History of US Foreign Relations1 |
HISTORY | 345-1 | History of Russia: 800-17001 |
HISTORY | 352-0 | Global History of Death and Dying1 |
HISTORY | 376-0 | Global Environments and World History (with ENVR_POL 340-0)1 |
HISTORY | 382-0 | The Modern Japanese City1 |
HISTORY | 386-2 | History of Modern Southeast Asia Until 19451 |
LATIN | 310-0 | Readings in Latin Literature1 |
LEGAL_ST | 207-0 | Legal Studies Research Methods (with SOCIOL 227-0)1 |
LEGAL_ST | 308-0 | Sociology of Law (with SOCIOL 318-0)1 |
LEGAL_ST | 398-1 | Advanced Research Seminar 1 |
LEGAL_ST | 398-2 | Advanced Research Seminar 2 |
LING | 315-0 | Experimental Approaches to Word Form Processing1 |
LING | 320-0 | Sociolinguistics1 |
MMSS | 398-1 | Senior Seminar |
MMSS | 398-2 | Senior Seminar |
MMSS | 398-3 | Senior Seminar |
NEUROSCI | 398-0 | Senior Thesis Seminar |
PHIL | 398-1 | Senior Tutorial |
PHIL | 398-2 | Senior Tutorial |
PHYSICS | 360-0 | Advanced Physics Laboratory |
POLI_SCI | 395-0 | Political Research Seminar |
POLI_SCI | 398-1 | Senior Seminar |
POLI_SCI | 398-2 | Senior Seminar |
PSYCH | 205-0 | Research Methods in Psychology1 |
PSYCH | 345-0 | Presenting Ideas and Data (with COG_SCI 345-0)1 |
RELIGION | 301-0 | Hindu Epics: Mahābhārata1 |
RELIGION | 309-0 | Topics in Hinduism1 |
RELIGION | 316-0 | Religion and the Body in China1 |
RELIGION | 360-0 | African American Religions1 |
RELIGION | 374-0 | Contemporary Religious Thought1 |
RUSSIAN | 302-1 | Advanced Russian in Conversations |
RUSSIAN | 302-2 | Advanced Russian in Conversations |
RUSSIAN | 302-3 | Advanced Russian in Conversations |
SOCIOL | 227-0 | Legal Studies Research Methods (with LEGAL_ST 207-0)1 |
SOCIOL | 318-0 | Sociology of Law (with LEGAL_ST 308)1 |
SOCIOL | 329-0 | Field Research and Methods of Data Collection |
SOCIOL | 356-0 | Sociology of Gender1 |
SPANISH | 250-0 | Literature in Spain Before 17001 |
SPANISH | 251-0 | Literature in Spain Since 17001 |
SPANISH | 260-0 | Literature in Latin America Before 18881 |
SPANISH | 261-0 | Literature in Latin America Since 18881 |
SPANISH | 335-0 | Modern Fiction in Spain1 |
TRANS | 310-0 | Seminar in Transportation and Logistics |
1May also be applied towards a Foundational Discipline and/or US or Global Perspectives on Power, Justice and Equity; see tables on the relevant pages.
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