2018-2019 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 (3 credits)
- WRT 210 - Introduction to Style (3 credits)
- WRT 219 - Introduction to Creative Writing (3 credits)
- WRT 253 - Document Production and Design (3 credits)
Additional Courses
Pick any three upper-division writing courses from this list:
- WRT 307 - Consulting With Writers (3 credits)
- WRT 308 - Editing and Publishing (3 credits)
- WRT 310 - Intermediate Style and Technique (3 credits)
- WRT 320 - Intermediate Poetry Workshop (3 credits)
- WRT 330 - Intermediate Fiction Workshop (3 credits)
- WRT 350 - Business Communication (3 credits)
- WRT 351 - Writing for the Web (3 credits)
- WRT 353 - Visual Rhetoric and Document Design (3 credits)
- WRT 354 - Writing in the Global Context: Culture, Technology, and Language Practices (3 credits)
- WRT 360 - Intermediate Creative Nonfiction (3 credits)
- WRT 365 - Intermediate Magazine Writing (3 credits)
- WRT 381 - Writing and Sports (3 credits)
- WRT 410 - Advanced Style and Technique (3 credits)
- WRT 420 - Advanced Poetry Workshop (3 credits)
- WRT 430 - Advanced Fiction Workshop (3 credits)
- WRT 451 - Advanced Writing for the Web (3 credits)
- WRT 455 - Multimodal Composing (3 credits)
- WRT 460 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction (3 credits)
- WRT 465 - Advanced Magazine Writing (3 credits)