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Apr 20, 2024
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2021-22 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 PWR courses
- Professional Writing Major Requirements
- 34 credits in PWR courses
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Professional Writing Courses: 37 credit hours
A. Required Courses: 16 credit hours
B. PWR Elective Courses: 18 credit hours
At least 18 additional credit hours of elective PWR courses. At least 6 credits must be at the 400 level. No more than 6 credits below the 300 level.
C. ENG elective: 3 credit hours
One 300-level or 400-level ENG course.
Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 120
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: 15
Total credit hours for semester: 16
Total credit hours for semester: 16
Total credit hours for semester: 15
Third Year Spring
PWR 400 level elective (3cr. hr.)
ENG 300 or 400 level elective (3cr. hr.)
GE course (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 elective (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: 12
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