From playwriting to investigative journalism to graphic fiction, Yale offers a wide range courses in creative writing. And many of these courses are taught by professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who combine writing experience at the highest level with deep commitment to teaching.
The first video in a series about teaching — and learning — how to write features Alison Bechdel, the acclaimed graphic novelist who is also a professor in the practice at Yale, and undergraduate Kaya Dierks, who explains why every student should take a writing class at Yale no matter their professional ambitions.
“Learning how to write is learning how to think,” Dierks says.
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is home to more than 1,000 faculty members and 40-plus departments and programs that span the divisions of Humanities, Social Science, and Science, and provide instruction to the students of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
