The Program in Expository Writing began with the millennium, in the academic year 2000–2001, and has since developed to bring to Johns Hopkins a new approach to the teaching and learning of writing. The mission of the program is to encourage excellence in writing, across disciplines, through the teaching of Expository Writing, through the work of the Writing Center, and through its support of the writing-intensive requirement.

All courses in the Program in Expository Writing help fulfill the university’s writing-intensive, or “W,” requirement.