Requirements
Total Requirements: 36 hours
Nine hours of focus courses chosen from the following:
- 3 hours from Professions and Organizations: 502, 503, 522
- 3 hours from Literacy, Language, and Technology: 519, 520, 521
- 3 hours from Theory and Argumentation: 511, 606, 631
- 9 additional hours from courses in Professions and Organizations and/or Literacy, Language, and Technology, and/or Theory and Argumentation
(Note: students who enter the program with a professional writing certificate can use the certificate to fulfill the above requirements)
An additional 18 hours of courses chosen from the following lists below:
- Application: 3-6 hours of project courses, internship, thesis credit, or e-portfolio and Web site construction: ENG 608, ENG 685, ENG 697, ENG 699.
- Electives: 12-15 hours. These can be English courses or courses from outside the department that are germane to a student’s plan. For example, students wishing to write in the area of medicine may wish to take health science or biochemistry courses. Students wishing to write in the area of ecology and wilderness may wish to take forestry or ecology courses to learn vocabulary, methods, and context for the discourse community in which they plan to write. Students wishing to work in the area of education may wish to take courses in educational leadership, bilingual and multicultural education, or educational psychology courses.