2024-2025 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 range of courses offered encourages students to tailor a program that augments their professional needs and personal talents as writers.
Requirements
The minor in writing requires 18 credits.
Core Courses
Choose three courses (nine credits) from the following:
- 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
Choose three upper-division writing courses (nine credits) from the following:
- WRT 307 - Consulting with Writers (3 credits)
- WRT 308 - Editing and Publishing (3 credits)
- WRT 316 - 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 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 411 - Style and the Book (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 - Composing with Digital Tools (3 credits)
- WRT 460 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction (3 credits)
- WRT 465 - Advanced Magazine Writing (3 credits)