Writing Minor

Degree Requirements

Required Courses – 21 hours

6 hours upper level at UMHB

COMM 2360Introduction to Media Writing

3

WRIT 4340Advanced Composition

3

WRIT 4343Advanced Rhetoric

3

WRIT 4392Publications Workshop

3

WRIT 3340Creative Writing: Poetry

3

or

COMM 3340Screenwriting

3

Plus 6 hours from the following:

BCIS 3350Desktop & Digital Publishing

3

COMM 2330Copy Editing

3

COMM 3340Screenwriting

3

COMM 3365Advanced Media Writing and Design

3

COMM 3375Magazine Non-Fiction & Newspaper Feature Writing

3

WRIT 3341Creative Writing: Prose

3

WRIT 3342Advanced Grammar

3

WRIT 3340Creative Writing: Poetry

3

COMM 3340 and WRIT 3340: Cannot fulfill both an elective and a required choice; select whichever course was not taken for the required courses.

Students must earn a “C” or better for courses in this minor.

Students majoring in English and/or Communications may not use the same course(s) to satisfy the requirements of both the major and the Writing minor. Courses in the WRIT prefix are part of the English Program. Students must meet all prerequisites for all courses.