Overview
Stanford Summer Session provides high-achieving and ambitious students a transformative educational experience at a world-class university. By combining challenging academics with a rich array of extra-curricular programming, Stanford Summer Session successfully shares the University’s culture of innovation, academic excellence, and global responsibility.
Key facts:
How can you write college-level essays that hook readers and sustain their interest over the course of a well-researched argument?
In this course in Writing Academic Arguments - The Art of the Essay at Stanford University - Summer Sessions you'll learn how to craft good research questions, conduct ethical scholarly research, engage counterarguments, and write and revise academic essays.
You'll write a rhetorical analysis of a work that interests you, an essay, film, song, painting, etc. and develop a persuasive, research-based essay exploring a topic you feel passionate about. Does not meet the Stanford first-year writing requirement.
Programme Structure
The curriculum for this course focuses on:
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Print Research-Based Argument
- Homework and In-class Work
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Creative Writing Liberal Arts Literature View 69 other Short Courses in Creative Writing in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
To be eligible to apply, you must:
- Be a current sophomore, junior, or senior, or a gap year student at the time of application.
- Be at least 16 at the start of the program,
- Not be matriculating into Stanford as freshman.
- INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: Be able to verify fluency in the English language, using one of the methods described in the English Language Proficiency section on the International Students page.
Tuition Fee
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International
4116 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4116 USD for the full programme during 2 months. -
National
4116 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4116 USD for the full programme during 2 months. -
In-State
4116 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4116 USD for the full programme during 2 months.
Living costs for Stanford
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.