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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

Notes on a Rhetoric and Writing Minor Video project

Why pursue the Rhetoric and Writing minor at RIC?

1. Practice with writing, opportunities for individual and peer feedback, the chance to collaborate and to use technology to improve your writing

2. Exposure to more diverse kinds of writing (on the screen, in the workplace, in the public realm).

3. The chance to become a new and different kind of writer, to think about writing differently, to become more adaptable, flexible, insightful and reflective about yourself as a writer and heehaw writing works in the world.

What does the word RHETORIC mean and can that be tied into this?

Writing Majors/Minors

In addition to the list that NCTE/CCCC is keeping on writing majors/minors, there is this resource:

http://www.depts.drew.edu/composition/majors.html

Writing Program Notes

Options:

1. Writing Minor (English Dept)

2. Major: Multimedia Writing & Technical Communication

ASU:

Digital Media/Rhetoric in English Department

ENH 364: Digital Media in the Humanities and Arts
TWC 301 General Principles of Multimedia Writing

Rhetoric:

ENG 472 Rhetorical Studies

AT THE POLYTECHNIC CAMPUS

Dept.: Multimedia Writing & Technical
Communication

The Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Writing and Technical Communication is the only undergraduate technical communication degree program available in the state of Arizona. Multimedia writing is writing that incorporates graphics, sound, design, and media. Technical communication is applied workplace communication that makes technical information understandable and available to many audiences. In the multimedia writing and technical communication program, students learn how to produce, design, and manage information using both traditional and developing technologies.

Core

• TWC 301 General Principles of Multimedia
• TWC 401 Principles of Technical Communication
• TWC 411 Principles of Visual Communication
• TWC 421 Principles of Writing with Technology
• TWC 431 Principles of Technical Editing

Clemson:

Writing
A minor in writing requires 15 credits as follows:

Business and Technical Option-
AP EC 351 or G C 104, CP SC 120, ENGL 304 or 314, 490, 495.

Journalism Option-
ENGL 231, 333, 334, 335; one of the following: AP EC 351, CP SC 120, G C 104, ENGL 217, 304, 304, 312, 314, PHIL 102, SPCH 250, THRD 468, and any course approved by the Chair of the English Department.

Writing Pedagogy Option-
ENGL 312, 400, 401, 485; elective (three credits), any 300- or 400- level writing course offered by the Department of English.

Creative Writing Option-
Drama- THEA (ENGL) 347, 447 (six credits), ENGL 430, and one of the following: ENGL 312, 410, 411.
Fiction- ENGL 345, 445 (six credits) 432, and one of the following: ENGL 312, 418, 425, 426.
Poetry- ENGL 346, 446 (six credits), 431, and one of the following: ENGL 312, 413, 416, 417.