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Nov 09, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Writing and Publishing Major
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Description
The Writing and Publishing major prepares students for careers requiring skill in professional writing, editing, and multimedia visual design in a variety of print and digital formats. As a Writing and Publishing major, you will learn to:
- Tailor your writing for different audiences
- Make strategic rhetorical and stylistic choices across genres and publishing venues
- Engage in developmental or “global” editing, extending, condensing, and otherwise transforming existing texts for particular purposes
- Apply visual design principles as part of the process of creating and editing multimedia texts, including websites
- Work collaboratively with other writers, creators, editors, and other professionals
Rhetoric (4 credits):
Choose one of the options below:
Writing in Creative, Professional, and Digital Contexts (16 credits):
Four courses with at least one course in each of the following three categories, and two courses in one category.
Digital Writing & Visual Design:
Professional Experience (4 credits):
Choose one of the options below:
- Community Internship (4 cr.)
- Internship through ENG 2106 Writing for Main Street (4 cr.)
- Internship through ENG 3312 Writing for Nonprofits (4 cr.)
- Experiential learning through ENG 2218 Introduction to Peer Tutoring (2 cr.) and ENG 2235 (2 cr.) Advanced Peer Tutoring
Literature Courses (8 credits):
- Two 2000- or 3000-level English (ENG) literature courses
Electives (8 credits):
Two additional courses selected from the Writing in Creative, Professional, and Digital Context category or from the list below:
Departmental Writing Requirement:
The Department of English extends writing throughout the major. Writing & Publishing majors will meet the Writing in the Discipline general education requirement by completing one of the professional writing courses above as notated with the # symbol.
Requirements for Departmental Honors
To receive Honors in English, a student must:
- Have a grade point average of 3.50 or above in all courses taken in the major;
- Undertake a special project or presentation designed in consultation with (and approved by) capstone faculty;
- Have the recommendation of the English Department.
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