Professional Writing Minor
Learning to write various content genres for the 21st century professional world is a valuable skill that can support many majors.
The Professional Writing minor introduces students to the realm of digital and technical writing. Whether it’s writing applications for grant funding, managing a company’s social media profile, crafting website content, or constructing manuals for others to follow, this area of study covers a broad spectrum of topics and writing skills needed in every field today.
Below are majors in each academic School that pair well with the Professional Writing Minor:
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Learn to write your own fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama and how those creative skills can translate to digital writing |
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Understand textual analysis, research skills, and argumentation and how these skills can translate to technical and digital writing |
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Learn to make art, such as graphic design and photography, while also developing your digital writing skills |
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Learn to make art, such as graphic design and photography, while also developing your digital writing skills |
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Learn to communicate in another language and how that valuable skill can translate to technical and digital writing |
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Learn the history of musical composition and how to compose music while learning how to write about music on digital platforms |
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Develop your management skills by also honing your professional, technical, and digital writing skills for the 21st century workplace |
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Every successful company is built on successful internal communications through effective technical writing, and every successful company must cultivate a successful online presence through effective digital writing |
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Management - Human Resource Management (Bachelor of Science) |
Successful management of human resources requires a company or organization to create effective internal and external documents, policies, and procedures built on effective technical and digital communication |
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Management - Management Information Systems (Bachelor of Science) |
Complement your study of information management by honing your digital writing skills |
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Learn to market a product or service to consumers more effectively by developing your digital writing skills |
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Learn to broadcast video and audio images while developing your digital writing skills that will assist you in producing effective and meaningful ones |
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Develop your journalistic writing alongside your digital and technical writing in general |
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Learn the art of reputation management while learning how you can craft digital content about your client |
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Family and Consumer Sciences - Merchandising (Bachelor of Science) |
As you prepare for careers in retailing, management, and fashion promotion, develop the digital writing skills needed for promoting your merchandise online in careers like fashion blogger |
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Family and Consumer Sciences - Hospitality and Culinary Management (Bachelor of Science) |
As you learn to manage institutional and commercial foodservice establishments, develop the digital writing skills needed for promoting your culinary arts online in careers like food or travel blogger |
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Sport Management and Recreation Studies - Recreational Leadership (Bachelor of Science) |
Learn to manage indoor and outdoor recreational programs and facilities for all age groups while developing your technical and digital writing skills needed to promote a program online or write a grant for funding, etc. |
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Sport Management and Recreation Studies - Sport Management (Bachelor of Science) |
Learn all aspects of sport management while developing your technical and digital writing skills needed in many facets of this career, from marketing and public relations to event planning |
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Develop your mathematical knowledge alongside your digital and technical writing skills |
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Computer Science - Information Assurance (Bachelor of Science) |
Develop your knowledge of computer science alongside your digital and technical writing skills |
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Develop your knowledge of computer science alongside your digital and technical writing skills |
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Develop your knowledge of computer science alongside your digital and technical writing skills |
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Computer Information Systems - Information Assurance (Bachelor of Science) |
Develop your knowledge of computer information systems alongside your digital and technical writing skills |
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Computer Information Systems - Web Development (Bachelor of Science) |
Develop your knowledge of computer information systems alongside your digital and technical writing skills |
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Computer Information Systems - General (Bachelor of Science) |
Develop your knowledge of computer information systems alongside your digital and technical writing skills |
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Learn about government at all levels while learning to craft messaging and all forms of professional communication through the study of technical and digital writing |
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Learn more about the human mind and behavior and how these affect the craft of digital and technical composition |
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Work to find solutions to social problems by honing your technical and digital writing skills, useful for grant writing, preparing manuals, and crafting messaging for online platforms |
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Work to find solutions to social problems by honing your technical and digital writing skills, useful for grant writing, preparing manuals, and crafting messaging for online platforms |