Professional Writing Certificate
The Professional Writing Certificate curriculum builds versatile skills in writing and analysis alongside more specialized forms of technical and professional writing. A complement to any major, the certificate signals to employers and graduate programs expertise in professional writing.
To earn a Professional Writing Certificate, students must earn a "B" or better in each course and complete the exit survey. Students taking ENG 475 must earn a "satisfactory." To earn both the Professional Writing Certificate and the Writing Certificate, students must pass one additional upper-division English writing certificate elective with a "B" or better.
Earning both certificates requires 18 credit hours. The writing certificates do not meet graduation requirements for the academic minor.
A minimum of 15 credits is required including:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENG 302 | Technical Writing | 3 |
| One of the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Creative Writing (GT-AH1) | ||
| Critical Approaches to Literature | ||
| Nine credits from the following, three of which must be from upper division English courses: | 9 | |
| Chemical Information Literacy and Communication | ||
| Media Writing | ||
| Scriptwriting | ||
| Borderlands: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality | ||
| Women and Literature | ||
| Literary Culture of the American West | ||
| Popular Genre Fiction: Topic Variable | ||
| Introduction to Creative Writing (GT-AH1) | ||
| Grammar and the English Language | ||
| Environmental Literature (GT-AH2) | ||
| Critical Approaches to Literature | ||
| Ancient World Literature (GT-AH2) | ||
| Folklore | ||
| Creative Writing: Fiction | ||
| Creative Writing: Poetry | ||
| Creative Writing | ||
| Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Literature and Ethnicity: Studies in: | ||
| Poetry: Studies in: | ||
| Drama: Studies in: | ||
| Prose: Studies in: | ||
| Women Writers | ||
| Global Literatures: Studies in: The Underworld | ||
| Myth and Culture | ||
| British Literature: Medieval and Renaissance Texts | ||
| British Literature: Milton through the Romantics | ||
| British Literature: The Victorians to the Present Day | ||
| American Literature Early to Civil War | ||
| American Literature-Civil War to Present | ||
| Literary Magazine Submission and Production | ||
| Major British Authors: | ||
| Major American Authors: | ||
| Theories of Reading and Writing Discourse | ||
| Writing the Environment | ||
| Geoscience Writing | ||
| Total Credits | 15 | |