2019-20 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 06, 2024  
2019-20 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Professional Writing [PWRT]


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Professional Writing offers a well-rounded, liberal arts education with courses in creative writing, editing, technical writing, business writing and writing with new media. For more information please visit the website at cortland.edu/profwriting/ or the English Department .

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

  1. Construct a sustained and persuasive interpretive or analytical scholarly argument.
  2. Engage with the writing process through planning, drafting, reviewing, revising, and critiquing documents.
  3. Recognize their individual agency as rhetors as well as their embeddedness in larger social, material, and discursive systems.

 Career Potential

  • Editor
  • Technical Writer
  • Web Content Developer
  • Communications Director
  • Grant Writer
  • Director of Non-Profit Organizations
  • Freelance Writer
  • Media Writer

Professional Writing Courses: 34 credit hours


B. At least 15 additional credit hours of elective professional writing courses, six hours at the 400 level.


Note: PWR 412, if selected, has a prerequisite of PWR 212, PWR 213 or PWR 315.

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 124


Example of the B.A. in Professional Writing over Four Years


 Link to General Education (GE); Link to Foreign Language 

First Year Fall


Total credit hours for semester: 16


First Year Spring


Total credit hours for semester: 16


Second Year Fall


Total credit hours for semester: 16


Second Year Spring


PWR 200 or 300 level (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 200 or 300 level (3 cr. hr.)
Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)
Foreign language (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (4 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 16


Third Year Fall


Total credit hours for semester: 15


Third Year Spring


PWR 400 level (3cr. hr.)
PWR 200, 300 or 400 level (3cr. hr.)
Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)
Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)
Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 15


Fourth Year Fall


Total credit hours for semester: 15


Fourth Year Spring


PWR 4XX (3 cr. hr.)
​Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)
Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)
Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)
Minor/elective (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 15


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