Academic Resources

Brown International Mentoring Programme

This section is under construction. It contains information that is largely relevant after you arrive at Brown.

For the time-being, here are some links you may find useful:

Office of the Dean of the College (DOC)
The DOC oversees all aspects of undergraduate education at Brown. Their website contains plenty of useful information on the curriculum, advising, academic support, course selection...etc.
The DOC is also the place to go for questions about International Certification Policies and Procedures.

Brown University Writing Center
The Writing Center offers a range of workshops on writing throughout the semester, as well as one-on-one conferences for students to discuss their writing. Their website has many links to resources about writing in a variety of disciplines, recommended articles include:

• Critical Writing and Thinking
  --by Susie Castellanos (PhD, Brown, 2000) 
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• Elements of an Essay
  --originally created by Gordon Harvey at Harvard, and then adapted by Elizabeth Taylor of Brown University
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• Penning the Past:  Advice on Writing in the Historical Disciplines
  --by Alyssa Lodewick of Brown University
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If you have any questions at all, feel free to contact us at IMP@brown.edu . SECRET COUNTER !