Minor in Professional Writing
The Professional Writing Minor allows students to become communication specialists with developed skills in the rhetorical elements of writing, combined with the broadened view of how writers negotiate shared knowledge of their culture. Professional Writing students gain the skills necessary to become professional communicators who can effect change through writing. Students acquire skills which relate to writing for the arts and new media, as well as for corporate and non-profit sectors of society (from Professional Writing Program Definition Columbia College Catalog).
Course list
52-2816 Reviewing the Arts (4 cr)
52-3801 Writing for New Media (4 cr)
52-2830 Creative Nonfiction I (4 cr)
52-3804 Professional Writing Seminar (capstone) (4cr)
Elective (choose one): 3 or 4 cr
52-2810 Professional Writing: Essay (4 cr)
52-2811 Professional Writing: Profiles (4 cr)
52-2812 Professional Writing: Argumentation (4 cr)
52-2813 Professional Writing: Research (4 cr)
52-2803 Copyediting: South Loop Review (3 cr)
52-2802 Business and Technical Writing (3 cr)
52-1800 Careers in Writing (3 cr)
52-1805 Introduction to Poetry and Prose (4 cr)
52-2814 Writing Comedy (4 cr)
52-2831 Creative Nonfiction II (4 cr)
Total Credits: 19/20 (cr)
For further information or advice on the Professional Writing minor, please contact Garnett Kilberg-Cohen
