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Professional Writing Requirements

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Required Courses

  • ENGL 360 - Advanced Writing
  • ENGL 365 - Technical Writing or ENGL 366 - Honors Technical Writing
  • ENGL 480 - Professional Design Studio I
  • ENGL 472G - Professional Writing
  • One elective from Professional Writing
    • ENGL 462G - Special Projects in Professional Writing
    • ENGL 473G - Professional Editing
    • ENGL 474G - Document Design
  • Two electives from Professional Writing, Creative Writing, Language, and/or Rhetoric
    • Professional Writing
      • ENGL 462G - Special Projects in Professional Writing
      • ENGL 473G - Professional Editing
      • ENGL 474G - Document Design
    • Creative Writing
      • ENGL 328 - Non-Fiction
      • ENGL 325 - Fiction
      • ENGL 326 - Poetry
      • ENGL 327 - Drama
    • Language
      • ENGL 351 - Introduction  to Linguistics
      • ENGL 304 - Vocabulary Development
      • ENGL 352 - English Grammar and Usage
      • ENGL 353 - Advanced English Grammar
    • Rhetoric
      • ENGL 457G - Classical Rhetoric
      • ENGL 464G - Special Topics in Rhetoric & Composition
  • ENGL 463G - Professional Writing Practicum (Learn more about this internship course)
  • ENGL 480 - Professional Design Studio II

Other Requirements

All majors, regardless of concentration must take: ENGL 290 - Introduction to Literary Studies.

In addition, all majors in the College of Liberal Arts must declare a minor field, in which 18 hours are required, six of them at the 300- or 400-level.