The Undergraduate Curriculum
Organization of the Undergraduate Program THE CORE (12 SH): A core of four Craft of Writing workshops calls upon students to imitate models of professional writing in many genres, to understand the creative process, to grapple with the relationship between form and insight, and through writing and reading to enter directly into the conversation between and among writers over the centuries. In these workshops, texts will be used as models, prompts, and inspiration for student writing projects. Much like student painters are asked to imitate the Masters, we will be asking our students to write in the context of the models and exemplars presented in these courses. It is through this kind of rigorous attention to craft that student writers will find inspiration for their own innovations. GENRE WORKSHOPS (14 SH): In addition to the four core Craft of Writing workshops, students in the B.A. in Professional Writing options will take a series of workshops that will help to focus students' writing within a particular genre (e.g., journalism, fiction, or public relations writing) that align with the five different options. Here students specialize and hone their skills in particular writing genres. UPPER LEVEL REQUIRED COURSES (16 SH): The upper level required courses, including the capstone thesis project course, reflect our dedication to the principle that every graduate should leave our program with important intellectual and practical knowledge such as how to operate in an editorial environment; an understanding of libel; familiarity with publication design and development; a basic understanding and ability to apply the linguistic and semantic approach to language; and the ability to edit and copyedit manuscripts. MENU COURSES (6 SH): The category of Menu Courses is a new addition to our program sheet. These are advanced multi-genre courses that emphasize the cross-genre practices usually involved in a writer’s life. In this category, students will take two courses from a menu of courses that will be rotated to allow for a great variety of topics and approaches. Here is where imagination meets research, and flexibility meets the demands of assembling the elements of the writing process. The Courses Core
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