2016-2017 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Writing Minor
The minor in writing is designed to serve students in a wide variety of disciplines, such as computer science, business, math, nursing, classics, and engineering, by giving them the opportunity to develop personal and workplace writing skills and greater rhetorical sensitivity. The minor requires 18 credits; the range of courses offered encourages students to tailor a program that augments their professional needs and personal talents as writers.
Requirements for a Minor in Writing
Core Requirements
Pick three courses from the four courses in the core:
- WRT 200 - Introduction to Professional Writing Credits: 3
- WRT 210 - Writing with Style Credits: 3
- WRT 219 - Introduction to Creative Writing Credits: 3
- WRT 253 - Document Production and Design Credits: 3
Additional Courses
Pick any three upper-division writing courses from this list:
- WRT 320 - Intermediate Poetry Workshop Credits: 3
- WRT 420 - Advanced Poetry Workshop Credits: 3
- WRT 330 - Intermediate Fiction Workshop Credits: 3
- WRT 430 - Advanced Fiction Workshop Credits: 3
- WRT 360 - Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Credits: 3
- WRT 460 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction Credits: 3
- WRT 340 - Intermediate Drama Workshop Credits: 3
- WRT 440 - Advanced Drama Workshop Credits: 3
- WRT 351 - Writing for the World Wide Web Credits: 3
- WRT 451 - Advanced Writing for the Web Credits: 3
- WRT 310 - Intermediate Style and Technique Credits: 3
- WRT 410 - Advanced Style and Technique Credits: 3
- WRT 353 - Visual Rhetoric and Document Design Credits: 3
- WRT 455 - Multimodal Composing Credits: 3
- WRT 365 - Intermediate Magazine Writing Credits: 3
- WRT 465 - Advanced Magazine Writing Credits: 3
- WRT 307 - Consulting With Writers Credits: 3
- WRT 308 - Working with Manuscripts Credits: 3
- WRT 381 - Writing and Sports Credits: 3
- WRT 350 - Business Communication Credits: 3