WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Completing the minor requires three
simple steps. In a total of 18 hours
and 6 classes, you have the minor
right at your fingertips.
Step 1
Public/Professional Writing
Foundation.
This first step offers two mandatory
courses that must be completed in
order to obtain the minor. These two
classes complete the first 6 hours of
the minor:
Introduction to Professional and
Public Writing (ENGL 201)
Survery in Rhetorical Theory (ENGL 280)
These two classes help students
learn what professional writing is and
how it is implimented.
Step 2
Public/Professional Writing
Applied
Students are able to pick one course
from a list of four classes:
- Writing for Clarity and Style (ENWR 204)
- Workplace Writing (ENWR 206)
Step 3
Public/Professional Writing
Electives.
Students have to take three courses that
are offered from a total of thirteen
courses. There is a large variety of
courses to choose from:
- Ethnographies and Autoethnographies of
Writers (ENGL 270)
- Writing for Clarity and Style (ENWR 204)
- Workplace Writing (ENWR 206)
- Technical Writing (ENWR 207)
- Digital Writing: Composing with Text,
Image, and Sound (ENWR 208)
- Special Topics in Writing (ENWR 250)
- Collaboration and Coauthoring (ENWR 290)
- Cooperative Education (ENWR 301)
- Writing Women Safe: Writing, Rape
Prevention, and Community Activism (ENWR
350),
- Technical Writing in the Public Schools
(ENWR 371)
- Technical Writing (ENWR 207)
- Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing
(ENWR 385)
- Digital Writing: Composing with Text,
Image, and Sound (ENWR 208)
- Community Writing: Theories, Practices and
Partnerships (ENWR 400)
All four of those courses are to benefit
students on how to apply what they
learn and impliment it into their own
writing.
- Seminar in Writing (ENWR 491)
All of those courses are to help perfect
the writing style and complete the minor.