The Professional & Strategic Writing program is designed to respond to the unique career goals of each student and provides the key skills necessary to transition into new or expanded professional areas as the marketplace continues to change and grow.  

The Professional & Strategic Writing Curriculum offers course options within the rhetorical categories of invention, delivery, style, arrangement and memory: courses shown below are examples of the category that follows the title.

Total Credit Hours: 122-124

Courses shown in bold are part of the Professional & Strategic Writing Core Curriculum.

Year 1

• Introduction to Professional and Strategic Writing
• Introduction to Public Speaking
• Creative Writing
• Cultural Myth and Memory
• Pathways Seminar
• American Visions
• Scientific Understanding
• Quantitative Reasoning
• Quantitative Reasoning or STAT or Scientific Understanding
• Writing Seminar I: Written Communication
• Free Elective

Year 2

• Technical Writing
• Rhetorics of Race and Gender
• Rhetorics of Social Media
• Visual Rhetorics
• Peer Writing Tutoring
• Minor Course 
• Multimedia Communication
• Global Diversity
• American Diversity
• Ethics
• Free Elective

Year 3

• Narrative Nonfiction
• Organizational Communication
• Writing at Work
• In-House Internship
• Disciplinary Elective
• Disciplinary Elective
• Contemporary Global Issues
• Global Citizenship
• Integrative Seminar
• Minor Course 

Year 4

• Capstone
• Disciplinary Elective
• Disciplinary Elective
• Philosophies of the Good Life
• Minor Course (2)
• Free Elective (3)