Minor: Writing
Program Requirements
The Minor in Writing is designed for students interested in a focus on writing of all types and genres. Students select from a menu of courses in writing, rhetoric, and linguistics.
To graduate with a Minor in Writing, students must achieve a grade-point average of at least 2.0 in the 18-hour program described below, but no credit will be given for courses in which the grade is below C-. No course may fulfill more than one requirement. No more than two courses in Creative Writing may be counted toward the Minor in Writing. One writing-intensive (WI) course in a discipline other than English may be counted toward the Minor in Writing.
Program of Study
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select six of the following: | 18 | |
| Introduction to Journalism | ||
| Writing Tutor Training Seminar | ||
| Writing And The Academy | ||
| Professional and Technical Writing | ||
| Theory And Practice Of Composition | ||
| Language, Literacy, Power | ||
| Rhetorics of New Media | ||
| Rhetorics of Public Memory | ||
| Creative Writing I Fiction | ||
| Creative Writing Poetry | ||
| Literary Nonfiction | ||
| Women And Rhetoric | ||
| Multimodal Writing and Rhetoric | ||
| Composing Digital Environments | ||
| Technical Communication | ||
| Playwriting I | ||
| Playwriting II | ||
| Studies in Rhetoric and Composition | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Nonfiction Workshop | ||
| Multigenre Workshop | ||
| Introduction to Screenwriting | ||
| Advanced Screenwriting | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |