Professional Writing Major
Program Details
Program Overview
The professional writing major marries the love of language with the practical writing skills essential in today’s workplace. With a combination of creative and professional proficiencies, you will enter the workforce with experience and keen insight in a broad array of written forms and styles. From poetry, fiction and nonfiction, to technical and business writing and communication, you will differentiate yourself across many career fields including nonprofit, content development and editing, publishing, and technical writing.
Program Concentrations
This program is made up of the following concentrations. Learn more about concentrations.Concentration Overview
The practice of writing emphasizes the importance of critical thinking, reading, and expression as a means of understanding the past and present and thinking wisely about the future.
Courses in this Concentration
Concentration Overview
The professional writing concentration marries the love of language with the practical writing skills essential in today’s workplace. With a combination of professional and creative proficiencies, you will enter the workforce with experience and keen insight in a broad array of written forms and styles. From technical and business writing and communication, to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, you will differentiate yourself across many career fields including nonprofit, content development and editing, publishing, and technical writing.
Courses in this Concentration
Concentrations on this page are required for this program. Additional courses or concentrations may need to be added to meet program or credit requirements.
Program Coursework
- Creative Writing
- Poetry Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- Write Your World: Creative Nonfiction
- Social Change Through Storytelling
- Research Writing
- Business Writing
- Technical Writing
- Write Your World: Creative Nonfiction
The specific degree requirements on the website are for illustrative purposes and may change at any time. Please contact the Registrar's Office, Academic Advising or refer to the course catalog for detailed program requirements.
Liberal Arts Core
LEADERSHIP: 4 credits
- Freshman Seminar (1 cr.)
- Spiritual & Ethical Literacy (3 cr.)
- Personal Branding Communication (3 cr.)
- Writing for the 21st Century (3 cr.)*
- Quantitative Problem Solving (3 cr.)*
- Language & Culture (3 cr.)
CORE LITERACIES: 15 credits – Choose one (1) course from each broad theme. Course options can be found in the course catalog or on the academic advising page. Broad themes are:
- Narratives of Identity (3 cr.)
- Science, Environment & Culture (3 cr.)
- Social Tensions (3 cr.)
- The American Experience (3 cr.)
- Approving the Better Things (3 cr.)
Professional Core
Culminating Experience
- Pre-Internship
- Internship
- Capstone