Writing Minor

Advisor: Ron Kates, Department of English

An interdisciplinary minor in Writing, offering writing-intensive selections across the curriculum, requires a minimum of 18 hours of courses chosen from the list below, with the provision that no more than 12 hours may be taken in any one department.

Required Courses (18 hours)

Select 18 hours from the following:

BCEN 3510 - Business Communication 3 credit hours
BCEN 4510 - Business Report Writing 3 credit hours
EMC 3020 - Writing for the Electronic Media 3 credit hours
EMC 3060 - Writing for Digital Media 3 credit hours
EMC 4020 - Advanced Scriptwriting 3 credit hours
ENGL 3570 - Introduction to Linguistics 3 credit hours
ENGL 3620 - Professional Writing 3 credit hours
ENGL 3645 - Fiction Writing 3 credit hours
ENGL 3655 - Poetry Writing 3 credit hours
ENGL 3665 - Play Writing 3 credit hours
ENGL 4510 - Modern English Grammar and Usage 3 credit hours
ENGL 4600 - Writing Internship 1 to 6 credit hours
ENGL 4605 - Advanced Composition 3 credit hours
ENGL 4670 - Special Topics in Writing 3 credit hours
JOUR 3450 - Editing 3 credit hours
JOUR 3520 - Specialized Journalism 3 credit hours
JOUR 3530 - Feature Writing 3 credit hours
JOUR 3590 - Magazine Writing and Editing 3 credit hours
JOUR 4300 - Reviewing and Criticism 3 credit hours
PS 3530 - Legal Writing and Research 3 credit hours
THEA 4600 - Storytelling 3 credit hours
THEA 4820 - Playwriting 3 credit hours