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Tuesday 4 May 2010

My planned degree at Taylor

Bachelor of Science in Professional Writing

Program Type: Bachelors Degree
Overview
The Professional Writing Department (PWR) offers courses designed to teach students how to write for a wide variety of media: newspapers, magazines, movies, stage plays, online publications, books, and literary quarterlies. All students take a set curriculum of courses in the Professional Writing Department, with supplemental courses taken in English and Media Communications.
PWR majors become freelance writers, staff journalists, public relations writers, screenwriters, editors with magazines or book publishing houses, poets, reviewers and critics, playwrights, novelists, and literary agents. They build portfolios of their published works all four years they are in college, and they complete a practicum involving professional work as a writer or editor. Students are prepared upon graduation with their bachelor of science degree to begin working in the world of publishing or to begin graduate-level studies in English, film, journalism, or creative writing.

The success of the PWR major is based on the diversity of writing courses, the real-world experience of becoming published writers even as students, connections with leading authors and publishers, and training by professors who, themselves, are highly successful authors.
Curriculum
The bachelor of science degree with a major in professional writing requires 51-53 hours.

PWR Courses

World Literature - ENG230
Literary London - ENG233
American Literature - ENG240
British Literature - ENG250
American Romanticism and Realism - ENG340
Drama - ENG361
Shakespeare - ENG362
Selected Topics: Themes and Genres - ENG370
The Novel - ENG371
Literatures of Cultural Diversity - ENG373
Early English Literature - ENG412
Renaissance Literature - ENG422
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature - ENG426
Romantic Literature - ENG431
Victorian Literature - ENG441
Contemporary Literature - ENG444
Modern American Literature - Eng442
Introduction to Professional Writing - PWR101
Selected Topics - PWR170
Foundations of Professional Writing - PWR201
Selected Topics - PWR270
Writing for Business - PWR320
Writing Commercial Fiction - PWR321
Editing - PWR343
Selected Topics - PWR370
Practicum - PWR393
Writing Seminar - PWR460
Selected Topics - PWR470
Freelance Writing - PWR472
Senior Capstone - PWR493

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