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Apr 20, 2024
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2020-21 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:
- Construct a sustained and persuasive interpretive or analytical scholarly argument.
- Engage with the writing process through planning, drafting, reviewing, revising, and critiquing documents.
- Recognize their individual agency as rhetors as well as their embeddedness in larger social, material, and discursive systems.
Program Standard Grade Point Average Requirement
The major GPA is calculated by all courses identified in the college catalog as required for the major. In addition, this program has an established program standard GPA which may be used to determine progress in the program.
- Program Standard GPA
- Minimum GPA of 2.0 in any PWR course
- Professional Writing Major Requirements
- 34 credits in any PWR course
Career Potential
- Editor
- Technical Writer
- Web Content Developer
- Communications Director
- Grant Writer
- Director of Non-Profit Organizations
- Freelance Writer
- Media Writer
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Professional Writing Courses: 34 credit hours
A. Required Courses: 19 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
Total credit hours for semester: 16
Total credit hours for semester: 16
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
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
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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