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Degree Plan

Please refer to the undergraduate catalog for the most up-to-date information.


Major in Professional Writing & Rhetoric

The Professional Writing & Rhetoric major requires students to complete thirty-six semester hours within the major.

Core Requirements (9 hours)
Students must complete all three courses in the core.

  • PWR 2314 Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric
  • PWR 3318 Professional and Workplace Writing
  • PWR 4377 Writing Internship

Lecture Courses (6 hours) 
Students must take 6 hours from this category.

  • PWR 3313 Literacy Studies
  • PWR 3316 Women’s Writing and Rhetoric
  • PWR 3317 Rhetoric of Race
  • PWR 3326 Studies in Public and Civic Writing
  • PWR 4323 Editing and Publishing
  • PWR 4375 Special Topics Lecture in Writing and Rhetoric

Workshop or Project-Based Courses (9 hours)
Students must take 9 hours from this category.

  • PWR 3300 Technical Writing
  • PWR 3303 Argumentative and Persuasive Writing
  • PWR 3309 Creative Nonfiction
  • PWR 3321 Tutoring Writing
  • PWR 3385 Special Topics in Writing Workshop (Grant Writing, Travel Writing, Sports Writing, Food Writing, etc.)
  • PWR 4309 Undergraduate Research and Publication
  • PWR 4311 Writing for Social Change
  • PWR 4321 New Media Writing and Rhetoric
  • PWR 4348 Religious Rhetoric and Spiritual Writing
  • PWR 4349 Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Literature Electives (3 hours)
Students must complete 3 hours from this category.
Choose one course from 3000 or 4000 level ENG literature courses.

English Department Electives (3 hours of Non-PWR Courses)
Students must complete 3 hours from this category.
Choose one course from 3000 or 4000 level ENG literature, creative writing, or linguistics courses.


Secondary Major in Professional Writing & Rhetoric

The Professional Writing & Rhetoric secondary major requires students to complete thirty semester hours within the major.

Core Requirements (6 hours)
Students must take 6 hours from this category.

  • PWR 2314 Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric
  • PWR 3318 Professional and Workplace Writing
  • PWR 4377 Writing Internship

Lecture Courses (6 hours) 
Students must take 6 hours from this category.

  • PWR 3313 Literacy Studies
  • PWR 3316 Women’s Writing and Rhetoric
  • PWR 3317 Rhetoric of Race
  • PWR 3326 Studies in Public and Civic Writing
  • PWR 4323 Editing and Publishing
  • PWR 4375 Special Topics Lecture in Writing and Rhetoric

Workshop or Project-Based Courses (12 hours)
Students must take 12 hours from this category.

  • PWR 3300 Technical Writing
  • PWR 3303 Argumentative and Persuasive Writing
  • PWR 3309 Creative Nonfiction
  • PWR 3321 Tutoring Writing
  • PWR 3385 Special Topics in Writing Workshop (Grant Writing, Travel Writing, Sports Writing, Food Writing, etc.)
  • PWR 4309 Undergraduate Research and Publication
  • PWR 4311 Writing for Social Change
  • PWR 4321 New Media Writing and Rhetoric
  • PWR 4348 Religious Rhetoric and Spiritual Writing
  • PWR 4349 Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Literature Electives (3 hours)
Students must complete 3 hours from this category.
Choose one course from 3000 or 4000 level ENG literature courses.

English Department Electives (3 hours of Non-PWR Courses)
Students must complete 3 hours from this category.
Choose one course from 3000 or 4000 level ENG literature, creative writing, or linguistics courses.

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      • Literacy in a Long Blues Note
      • Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
      • A Fire to Light Our Tongues
      • Hollow Palaces
      • Haunted Property
      • American Literary Cultures
      • Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
      • Modernism in the Green
      • A Long, Long Way
      • Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
      • The Courage to See
      • The Evil Twins of American Television
      • Harvest Bells
      • Letters of a Long Name
      • Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
      • Reforming Women
      • Thomas Hoccleve
      • Mark Twain Under Fire
      • Building Natures
      • Understanding Marilynne Robinson
      • Living with the Living Dead
      • The Life Group
      • Then Winter
      • Building Jerusalem
      • The Divine Face in Four Writers
      • Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
      • Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
      • Housework and Gender in American Television
      • The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
      • Entertaining Judgment
      • Seamus Heaney's Regions
      • Elegy on Kinderklavier
      • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
      • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
      • The Tulip-Flame
      • The Glyph and the Gramophone
      • The Prodigal
      • Beyond the Pulpit
      • The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
      • Sylvia Plath's Fiction
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