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Professional Writing

Department: English

Core Classes: 30 credits - 18 credits must be at the 300 level or above

Course Number Title Credits Prerequisites Dist. Skills
EN 306 Essay Writing 3 EN 110 H CW
EN 376 Writing on the Web 3 EN 110, Junior or Senior status H CW

In addition, choose two other 3 credit writing classes not used as a Professional Focus Option.
Students can choose from EN 303, Poetry Writing, EN 305, Fiction Writing, EN 271, Medical Writing, EN 272, Business Writing, EN 311, Professional News and Feature Writing, EN 315, Technical Writing, EN 375, Science Writing, EN 415, Advanced Technical Writing. Note: EN 303 and EN 305 cannot both be used to fill this two-course requirement.

Communication Department: 9 credits
Course Number Title Credits Prerequisites Dist. Skills
CM 133 Mass Media and Society
3
   H CW, CS
CM 200 Art of Public Speaking

3

   H CW, CS
CM 330 Media Analysis 3 CM 132 or CM 133 H CW
IT Department: 9 credits
Course Number Title Credits Prerequisites Dist. Skills
IT 110 Principles of IT 3   S CW
IT 260 Human Computer Interaction 3 CS 110 S  
IT 241 Information Visualizaton & Architecture 3 IT 110 or CS 110 S QS
Professional Focus Options (choose one of the three options): 6 credits
Science Writing
Course Number Title Credits Prerequisites Dist. Skills
EN 371 Medical Writing 3 EN 110 H CW
EN 375 Science Writing

3

 EN 110, JR or SR status

H

 CW

Technical Writing

Course Number Title Credits Prerequisites Dist. Skills
EN 315 Technical Writing

3

 EN 110 H CW
EN 415 Advanced Technical Writing

3

 EN 110 & EN 315

H

 CW
Business Writing
Course Number Title Credits Prerequisites Dist. Skills
EN 272 Business Writing

3

 EN 110 H CW
EN 311 Professional News and Feature Writing

3

 EN 110

H

 CW
Practicum: 9 credits
Course Number
 Title Credits Prerequisites Dist. Skills
EN 281 - 482 Juniatian

4

   H  
EN 490 English Internship

3

 Corequisite EN 495

H

  
EN 495 English Internship Research 2 Corequisite EN 490 H  

Total credits = 45

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