Spring 2026 Writing Boston Courses
WRI-101-01/02 Writing Boston: Boston and Climate Change
Instructor: Zinnia Mukherjee
-01: T/Th | 2:00-3:20pm
-02: T/Th | 5:00-6:20pm
This course aims to provide students an engaging learning platform to study and analyze the city of Boston’s contributes to the growing problem of climate change, the threats it can potentially face because of the growing nature of the problem, and how the city can be used to design and implement solutions to mitigate the adverse effects thereby making it a more resilient city.
WRI-101-04 Writing Boston: Boston Childhoods
Instructor: Stephen Pusateri
T/Th | 2:00-3:20pm
This course considers the ways that literature set in Boston imagines and reflects the lives and concerns of young people in the city. Along with child and adolescent characters, students will explore the personalities and histories of Boston’s neighborhoods, cultural institutions, and contemporary movements as they’re represented in literature.
WRI-101-05 Writing Boston: Navigating News in the Hub
Instructor: Jessica Kaplan
T/Th | 9:30-10:50am
The course aims to introduce students to Boston’s history of news as well as its current state. We’ll look at TV, radio, print, online, and social media with a focus on news literacy, engagement, analysis and criticism.
WRI-101-06 Writing Boston: City as Text
Instructor:
M/W | 5:00-6:20pm
In this section of Writing Boston, we will consider the City as a text itself and explore the cultural politics and environment that make up the human geography of Boston. We’ll consider the impact of place on personal identity and explore its effect on the way we see ourselves and the world.
WRI-101-H01 Writing Boston: Boston Neighborhoods (Honors)
Instructor: Brendan Halpin
T/Th | 2:00-3:20pm
This writing course invites students to look beyond the tourist attractions and media portrayals of Boston and to consider what life is like for the majority of Boston residents. Students will learn about Boston’s neighborhoods and use this knowledge as inspiration for their own writing.
WRI-101-H02 Writing Boston: City as Text (Honors)
Instructor: Mark Mason
M/W | 5:00-6:20pm
In this section of Writing Boston, we will consider the City as a text itself and explore the cultural politics and environment that make up the human geography of Boston. We’ll consider the impact of place on personal identity and explore its effect on the way we see ourselves and the world.