The outline of courses below specifies general education requirements, professional writing core requirements and concentration requirements. All courses taken for the major must be completed with a grade of C- or better.

Students must complete 120 credit hours to earn their degrees. Unless otherwise specified, all courses listed below are 3 credits.

Meeting Lower-Division General Education Requirements:

See the course listing for the B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Meeting Upper-Division General Education and Core Requirements:

Core Courses (15 credit hours) required of all students

 

IDS 300W       Interdisciplinary Theory and Concepts                                                          

COMM 305    Foundations of Professional Communication

ENGL 325      Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

ENGL 327W  Advanced Composition I

ENGL 334W  Technical Writing

 

Organizational Foundations (12 credit hours-required grade of C- or better)

 

CS 300           Computers in Society 

MGMT 325     Contemporary Organizations and Management

MGMT 340     Human Resources Management

MGMT 451     Organizational Behavior

MKTG 311     Marketing Principles and Problems

MKTG 402     Consumer Behavior

MKTG 411     Multi-National Marketing

PHIL 303        Business Ethics

PSYC 303       Industrial/Organizational Psychology

PSYC 343       Personnel Psychology

PSYC 344       Human Factors

 or

PSYC 345       Organizational Psychology

 

Additional Hours in Professional Writing (12 credit hours-required grade of C- or better)

 

ENGL 335      Editing and Document Design

ENGL 350      Aspects of the English Language

ENGL 368      Writing Internship

ENGL 370      English Linguistics

ENGL 380      Introduction to Journalism and News Writing

ENGL 381      Public Relations

ENGL 395      Topics in English

ENGL 396      Topics in English

ENGL 427W Writing in the Disciplines

ENGL 435W Management Writing

ENGL 468      Advanced Writing Internship

ENGL 477      Language Gender and Power

ENGL 481      Advanced Public Relations

ENGL 484      Feature Story Writing

ENGL 485W Editorial and Persuasive Writing

ENGL 486      Media Law and Ethics

ENGL 495      Topics in English

ENGL 496      Topics in English

 

Additional Hours in Communication (6 credit hours-required grade of C- or better)

 

COMM 302    Communication Research Methods

COMM 303    Public Relations in Communication Industries

COMM 304    Advanced Public Speaking

COMM 312    Small Group Communication

COMM 314    Nonverbal Communication

COMM 315W Communication Between the Sexes  

COMM 333    Persuasion

COMM 351    Interpersonal Communication in Organizations

COMM 355    Organizational Communication

COMM 360    Understanding Mass Communication

COMM 368    Internship

COMM 395    Topics in Communication

COMM 400W Intercultural Communication

COMM 412W Interpersonal Communication

COMM 421    Communication and Conflict Management

COMM 447W Electronic Media Law and Policy

COMM 448    International Media Systems

COMM 456    Organizations and Social Influence

COMM 470W Film as Communication

COMM 472T New Media Technologies

COMM 474    Telecommunications Management

COMM 477    Media Content Management

COMM 478    Principles of Media Marketing and Promotion

COMM 495    Topics in Communication

 

1.4.2 Learning Outcomes: Our Professional Writing majors are expected to demonstrate two levels of written competence, theoretical and applied, by the end of their program of study:

 

Theoretical Objectives:

1. Understanding how rhetorical situations influence the form of written communication;
2. Understanding how writing is a means of learning and knowing, as well as a means of communicating knowledge;
3. Understanding the fundamental role of written communication in producing, sustaining, and changing perceptions of culture, including differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and social class;
4. Understanding the processes writers use to generate texts;
5. Understanding how the narratives that shape culture and identity apply to an individual's written expression and the written expression of others;
6. Understanding how new and changing media technologies influence patterns of human consciousness and the nature of written expression;
7. Understanding the role of research as a means of empowerment in written communication.

 

Applied Objectives:

1. Creating and critically evaluating texts applicable to a variety of professional and personal rhetorical situations;
2. Creating and evaluating texts that encourage writers to express their own perspectives in specific terms, and to relate those perspectives to a variety of audiences by using analogies or formal conventions familiar to their audiences;
3. Recognizing and critically analyzing rules and patterns in a variety of cultural and professional texts, ranging from mass media to personal journals, from influential and persuasive to technical documents;
4. Developing a set of skills that will enable writers to work through blocks and to sustain their own creative energy;
5. Creating collaborative texts to encourage writers to work through cultural, geographical, and technological barriers in order to find a common, consistent, and coherent writing voice;
6. Supporting free and responsible communication in a democratic society;

Creating texts that incorporate research to communicate the multiple perspectives applicable to a given action and to suggest possible solutions to perceived problems.

For detailed course descriptions, please see the university catalog.

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