Writing Minor

Advisor: Claudia Barnett, 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.

Interdisciplinary Minors

Interdisciplinary minors require the student to complete a minimum of 15 to 21 hours from a list of specific courses. Unless otherwise noted, a student may take no more than 6 hours of courses from a single department until he or she surpasses the required minimum number of hours necessary for completing the minor. Exceptions to this rule may be found within the discussions of several of the minors. In most cases, a student is also limited to just 3 hours of credit toward the minor in the same department or discipline in which he or she is taking a major. Except for the Paralegal Studies minor, no course may be counted both for major and minor credit. Students must fulfill all departmental prerequisites for any course within an interdisciplinary minor. In some cases, advisors may approve course substitutions within these program requirements.

Required Courses (18 hours)

Select 18 hours from the following:

BCED 3510 - Business Communication 3 credit hours
BCED 4510 - Business Report Writing 3 credit hours
EMC 3020 - Screenwriting I 3 credit hours
EMC 3060 - Writing for Digital Media 3 credit hours
EMC 4020 - Screenwriting II 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 - Special Topics in Professional Issues 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