The UWP curriculum begins with Reintroduction to Writing, which is required of all Krieger students and open to Whiting students as well. Reintro helps students rethink writing in ways that will help their academic, professional, and personal trajectories as well as in their civic responsibilities in a democracy. This course helps you become an agile, curious, creative, and resilient writer.

Reintro for first-year students is offered year-round; Reintro for students at the sophomore level and above is offered in fall semesters only. Transfer students take Reintro in their first semester at Hopkins.  

Part of Writing & Communication (FA1) courses

Reintro is part of the First-Year Foundation. It has all the features of FA1 courses. In addition, Reintro courses: 

• Include at least three major assignments, including but not limited to academic writing  
• Ask students to write in at least three distinct genres and to at least two different audiences, inclusive of major and minor assignments, including potentially to public audiences. 

These additional features are how we ensure that Reintro helps students to become agile writers, while continuing the work of the First-Year Seminars by building community and your sense of belonging at Homewood. 

Learning Outcomes

Reintro classes help students become agile writers by centering shared learning outcomes. After Reintro, all students will be able to: 

• Identify and employ iterative writing processes to generate ideas and draft texts, to review and revise their own and others’ texts, and to adopt new ideas, organizational strategies, and language choices (Processes)   
• Integrate critical thinking strategies into their reading, writing, and speaking through work with summary, evidence, interpretation, synthesis, response, argument, source evaluation, citation, and more. (Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing)  
• Analyze, choose, and apply rhetorical strategies and genre conventions to inform or persuade specific audiences. (Rhetoric and Genre) 
• Critically reflect on relationships among language, standardization, power, and justice; explore how languages and their varieties inform writing, speaking, and interpretative choices. (Linguistic Diversity & Rhetorical Complexity)