Each year during Spring Term, NELP sends forty students and thirteen instructors to live and study together in the woods of New England. The program is rigorous and exhilarating and deeply fulfilling:

• We meet in small classes every day. 
• We read novels, poems, and essays written in and about the place we're living.
• We do all our writing in personal journals. 
• We live and work collaboratively, sharing the cooking and chores that maintain our community. 
• We put down our phones and computers for the duration of the program. 
• We swim in lakes. We hike up mountains. We touch the ocean.

Our students receive nine credits in six weeks and fulfill LSA's Upper-Level Writing Requirement. U-M Students from a wide range of majors and schools attend NELP each year.