Professional Writing, Minor

Total number of hours for the program: 18.

Note: The Minor in Professional Writing is not open to students pursuing the BA in English with a Writing and Editing in Professional Environments Concentration. Students pursuing a BA in English may not use an ENGL course for both the major and the minor; double-counting a course between the major and minor is not allowed.

Minor Requirements

Students should take twelve semester hours selected from the following writing courses:

ENGL 213 - Introduction to Professional Writing and Editing Credits: 3
ENGL 304 - Writing for Electronic Environments Credits: 3
ENGL 306 - Nonfiction Writing Credits: 3
ENGL 307 - Professional Editing and Publishing Credits: 3
ENGL 313 - Authoring Multimedia Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 315 - Proposal and Grant Writing Credits: 3
ENGL 389 - Cooperative Education: Professional Writing Credits: 1 or 3, R15
ENGL 401 - Writing for Careers Credits: 3
ENGL 402 - Technical Writing Credits: 3
ENGL 412 - Grammar for Writers Credits: 3
ENGL 429 - Studies in Professional Writing Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 483 - Writing Internship Credits: 3

Additional Requirements

Six hours from any English course, exclusive of those approved for 100-200 level Liberal Studies credit.

ENGL 308 - Fiction Writing Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 309 - Poetry Writing Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 312 - Grammar for Teachers Credits: 3
ENGL 333 - Introduction to Shakespeare Credits: 3
ENGL 350 - The Renaissance Credits: 3
ENGL 351 - The Beats, Radicals, and Avant-Garde Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 352 - The Journey in Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 353 - Stories Retold Credits: 3
ENGL 366 - Literature and Immigration Credits: 3
ENGL 367 - Appalachian Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 368 - Film Genres Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 378 - Motion Picture Histories Credits: 3
ENGL 389 - Cooperative Education: Professional Writing Credits: 1 or 3, R15
ENGL 390 - The Bible as Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 394 - Film Adaptation Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 405 - Advanced Creative Writing Credits: 3
ENGL 414 - Fundamentals of Teaching Composition Credits: 3
ENGL 415 - Applied Linguistics Credits: 3
ENGL 416 - Teaching English as a Second Language Credits: 3
ENGL 419 - Medieval Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 420 - Chaucer and His Age Credits: 3
ENGL 421 - Fairy Tale, Myth, and Legend Credits: 3
ENGL 430 - English Literature of the Renaissance Credits: 3
ENGL 431 - Shakespeare and His Age Credits: 3
ENGL 440 - Milton and His Age Credits: 3
ENGL 450 - Seminar in English Studies Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 451 - Nineteenth-Century British Writers Credits: 3
ENGL 459 - Southern Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 463 - Contemporary Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 464 - Native American Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 465 - Topics in African American Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 470 - Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Postcolonial Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 474 - Literary Theory Credits: 3
ENGL 475 - Modernism and the Little Magazine Credits: 3
ENGL 477 - Literature, Gender, and Culture Credits: 3
ENGL 478 - Film Theory Credits: 3
ENGL 479 - Studies in Literature Credits: 3, R6
ENGL 480 - Studies in English Credits: 1-3, R6
ENGL 493 - Topics in Creative Writing Credits: 1-3, R6
ENGL 496 - Seminar in World Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 498 - Jobs in the Changing Workplace Credits: 3