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Aug 17, 2025
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2025-2026 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: Note:
Writing and Publishing majors also majoring or minoring in English may only count two literature courses taken for the Writing and Publishing major towards the literature requirements in the English major or minor. 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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