Professional Writing - Additional Major
If you wish to declare an additional major (sometimes called a double major) in Professional Writing, curriculum requirements will depend upon your primary major declaration. Because some of the same courses are required for each of our 5 major programs in the department, students who have primary majors in English have an amended set of requirements for additional majors in order to account for course overlap.
- Curriculum for Students with Primary Majors Outside of the Department of English
- Curriculum for Students with Primary Majors Within the Department of English
Curriculum for Students with Primary Majors Outside of the Department of English:
13 courses, 111 units minimum
All courses are 9.0 units each, unless otherwise noted.
Introductory Genre Writing Course (1 course, 9 units):
76-212 Intro to TV Writing
76-260 Intro to Writing Fiction
76-261 Intro to Writing Creative Nonfiction
76-265 Intro to Writing Poetry
76-269 Intro to Screenwriting
PW Core Requirements (4 courses, 30 units):
76-271 Introduction to Professional & Technical Writing
76-300 Professional Seminar (3 units)
76-373 Argument
76-390 Style
Rhetoric Requirement (1 course, 9-12 units):
Course options include:
76-318 Communicating in the Global Marketplace
76-325 Intertexuality
76-327 Equity & Communication: Strategies for Institutional Change
76-372 News Writing
76-384 Race, Nation, and the Enemy
76-389 Rhetorical Grammar
76-393 Narrative & Argument
76-395 Science Writing
76-415 Mediated Power and Propaganda
76-416 Rhetorics of Race & Empire
76-473 Rhetoric and the Construction of Race
76-475 Law, Performance, and Identity
76-476 Rhetoric of Science
76-479 Model Minorities?: Race, Rhetoric, and Identity in Asian America
76-490 Digital Rhetorics
76-492 Rhetoric of Public Policy
76-494 Healthcare Commnications
Advanced Writing/Rhetoric Requirements (4 courses, 36-48 units):
Course options include:
All of the Rhetoric courses listed above
and
76-306 Editing and Publishing
76-307 Advanced Editing and Publishing
76-314 Data Stories
76-354 Watchdog Journalism
76-366 Grant and Proposal Writing
76-368 Role Playing Game Writing Workshop
76-375 Emerging Technologies in Writing
76-380 Methods in Humanities Analytics
76-388 Coding for Humanists
76-391 Document & Information Design
76-425 Science in the Public Sphere
76-455 The Pittsburgh Review of Books
76-464 Creative Nonfiction Workshop
76-474 Software Documentation
76-481 Introduction to Multimedia Design (12 units)
76-483 Research in Technical and Professional Communication
76-487 Information Architecture & Content Strategy
English Electives (3 courses, 27 units):
Complete three additional courses from the English Department’s offerings.
- Only one of the three English Electives may be at the 200 level. The remaining English Electives must be at the 300 or 400 level.
- Two of the three English Electives must be courses that focus on the relationships between texts and their cultural and historical contexts. (We call these Text/Context courses.)
Please consult the list of courses published each semester by the Department for current offerings. English Electives may include any 200-level or above course offered by the Department. In choosing English Electives, you are encouraged to sample courses from across the Department.
Curriculum for Students with Primary Majors Within the Department of English:
9 courses, 105 units minimum
All courses are 9.0 units each, unless otherwise noted.
PW Core Requirements (4 courses, 30 units):
76-271 Introduction to Professional & Technical Writing
76-300 Professional Seminar (3 units)
76-373 Argument
76-390 Style
Rhetoric Requirement (1 course, 9-12 units):
Course options include:
76-318 Communicating in the Global Marketplace
76-325 Intertexuality
76-327 Equity & Communication: Strategies for Institutional Change
76-372 News Writing
76-384 Race, Nation, and the Enemy
76-389 Rhetorical Grammar
76-393 Narrative & Argument
76-395 Science Writing
76-415 Mediated Power and Propaganda
76-416 Rhetorics of Race & Empire
76-473 Rhetoric and the Construction of Race
76-475 Law, Performance, and Identity
76-476 Rhetoric of Science
76-479 Model Minorities?: Race, Rhetoric, and Identity in Asian America
76-490 Digital Rhetorics
76-492 Rhetoric of Public Policy
76-494 Healthcare Commnications
Advanced Writing/Rhetoric Requirements (4 courses, 36-48 units):
Course options include:
All of the Rhetoric courses listed above
and
76-314 Data Stories
76-354 Watchdog Journalism
76-366 Grant and Proposal Writing
76-368 Role Playing Game Writing Workshop
76-375 Emerging Technologies in Writing
76-380 Methods in Humanities Analytics
76-388 Coding for Humanists
76-391 Document & Information Design
76-425 Science in the Public Sphere
76-455 The Pittsburgh Review of Books
76-464 Creative Nonfiction Workshop
76-474 Software Documentation
76-481 Introduction to Multimedia Design (12 units)
76-483 Research in Technical and Professional Communication
76-487 Information Architecture & Content Strategy