More on Writing Minors

From WPA-L

Date:    Wed, 4 Feb 2015 15:58:44 -0700
From:    Doug Hesse <douglas.hesse@DU.EDU>
Subject: Writing Minors

Dear Colleagues,

For an internal proposal for a new university-wide writing minor, I'm looking for examples of undergraduate minors in writing.  I'm looking for a fairly broad minor, one not only in creative writing (common) or professional/technical writing (also common) but that admits a range of possible courses--even across units.  (Our minor will have theoretical and applied courses from the Writing Program; English; Media, Film, and Journalism; Communication Studies; Theatre; and others.)  We've done a fair amount of research and have turned up examples like the minor supported by the Sweetland Writing Center at Michigan, or the Certificate housed in Liberal Arts at Iowa.  We've found useful examples of minors at Syracuse, Miami, Washington University, Carnegie Mellon, Wake Forest, and Davis.  I've reviewed the WPA-L archives for messages with "minor" in their headings.

If you have (or know of) a likely candidate minor, please send me an email (dhesse@du.edu).

Thanks,

Doug

Doug Hesse
University of Denver