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The professional writing program equips you for careers across business, nonprofit, technical, and other professional fields. Courses emphasize business and technical communication while offering training in persuasive, grant, and travel writing. The flexible curriculum allows you to combine this major with another academic focus. Intimate class settings promote meaningful discussions with professors and peers.
Upon graduation, you'll have gained:
Hands-on internships in grant writing, corporate communications, nonprofits, publishing, editing, marketing, and design
Collaborative research projects with faculty
Participation in campus-wide and national writing contests
A capstone career exploration initiative
Writing experience with student publications, literary journals, and National Novel Writing Month
Professional connections through the English club and Sigma Tau Delta honor society