Creative and Professional Writing

Concentration in creative & professional writing

The English & Communication department offers a bachelor of arts degree in English with a concentration in creative & professional writing.

Creative & professional writing candidates demonstrate their ability to analyze context and rhetorical problems with awareness of cultural diversity to create and compose effective, well-formulated written communication for specific audiences across multiple modalities.

Areas of study in this concentration include: fiction; non-fiction; poetry; journalism; digital media production; script, drama, and screenwriting; professional writing; and technical writing.

Creative & professional writing learning outcomes:

Write and compose original texts
Apply key concepts in writing analytically, creatively, and professionally across multiple genres and modes based on audience needs and information design principles
Identify and summarize foundational concepts in creative writing, literary studies, and rhetorical studies
Understand and apply concepts and ideas related to issues of diversity such as race, class, sexuality, gender, ethnicity and others to texts across multiple genres and modes
Analyze the compositional and rhetorical strategies used in texts across multiple genres and modes
Synthesize primary and secondary sources using appropriate research and writing methods across genres and modes
Evaluate the appropriateness of compositional and rhetorical strategies used in texts