Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, MI, USA 48197

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The Writing Minor

About the Minor

The Department of English Language and Literature offers a 21 hour minor available to EMU undergraduates interested in adding an emphasis in writing to their degree program.

For more complete details and course descriptions, see the current Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog.

Minor Requirements: 21 hours

Required Courses: 9 hours
(Students take all of these courses)

ENGL328 Writing, Style and Technology (3 hrs)

One course from the following:

ENGL324 Principles of Technical Communication (3 hrs)
ENGL326 Research Writing (3 hrs)
ENGL335 Imaginative Writing (3 hrs)*

One course from the following:

ENGL417 Writing about Controversies (3 hrs)
ENGL422 Writer’s Workshop: Fiction or Poetry (3 hrs)*
ENGL424 Technical Writing (3 hrs)

Restricted Elective Courses: 12 hours

(Students take four courses from the following list)

ENGL323 Writing in the Professional World (3 hrs)
ENGL427 Technical Editing (3 hrs)
ENGL428 Writing Computer Documentation (3 hrs)
ENGL444 Writing for the World Wide Web (3 hrs)
JRNL215 News Writing and Reporting (3 hrs)
JRNL306 Feature Writing (3 hrs)
JRNL423 Magazine Article Writing (3 hrs)
CTAT344 Continuity Writing for Radio-Television-Film (3 hrs)
CTAR360 Dramatic Composition (3 hrs)
CTAR361 Dramatic Writing (3 hrs)

* Any course listed as a requirement above including repeats of ENGL335 Imaginative Writing or ENGL422 Writer’s Workshop: Fiction or Poetry if the topics are different.