Dec 23, 2025

2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Professional and Technical Writing Minor

The minor in Professional and Technical Writing requires 18 hours of course work to include:

Minor Prerequisites

Students must fulfill the Composition and Communication Core requirement:

WRD 110 - Composition and Communication I 3 Credit Hours
OR
CIS 110 - Composition and Communication I 3 Credit Hours
WRD 111 - Composition and Communication II 3 Credit Hours
OR
CIS 111 - Composition and Communication II 3 Credit Hours
OR
WRD 112 - Accelerated Composition and Communication II (Wrd) 3 Credit Hours
OR
CIS 112 - Accelerated Composition and Communication II (Cis) 3 Credit Hours

Minor Requirements

WRD 204 - Technical Writing 3 Credit Hours
WRD 300 - Introduction to Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies 3 Credit Hours
WRD 306 - Introduction to Professions in Writing 3 Credit Hours
WRD 406 - Topics in Professional Writing: (Subtitle Required) 3 Credit Hours (Subtitle required)

Minor Electives

Choose 6 hours from the following:

WRD 203 - Business Writing 3 Credit Hours
WRD 208 - Multimedia Writing 3 Credit Hours
WRD 225 - Craft Writing 3 Credit Hours
WRD 301 - Style for Writers 3 Credit Hours
WRD 304 - Writing in the Social Sciences 3 Credit Hours
WRD 305 - Writing Public Science 3 Credit Hours
WRD 310 - Writing in the Natural Sciences 3 Credit Hours
WRD 322 - Rhetoric and Argument: (Subtitle Required) 3 Credit Hours
WRD 350 - Writing with AI 3 Credit Hours
WRD 405 - Editing English Prose 3 Credit Hours
WRD 408 - Digital Composing 3 Credit Hours