This degree program offers students a full experience that connects academic, creative, and professional writing coursework and activities.
Students who complete a degree in writing will experience communicating in multiple formats for a variety of academic, creative, and professional purposes. Writing is both process and product—something we do and something we make. Our identities shape connections between information and audiences, for an impact. To put it another way, writing is about making things happen – through persuasive and compelling communication plans and products. Throughout this degree program, students will explore the contexts for writing (past and present), methods of how writing as a process and product is known and understood, and theories for how writing happens and is made – within societies and technologies.
Why study writing? Questions that shape a writer’s mindset and associated skills include:
- What are you thinking?
- What are you feeling?
- What will you create?
- What will you transform?
And then, how will we engage you in learning about writing? Questions that inform our courses and program of study include (and are not limited to):
- How do writers come up with what to say and get writing done?
- How do writers use technology, and why does that matter?
- How does who I am influence how and what I write – and then, how does writing change with me?
- How does writing reflect and change the world?
