Writing Minor
Write with Purpose Across Professions and media
Develop writing skills that help you turn ideas into effective communication. SXU’s writing minor brings together English and Communication coursework, allowing you to explore creative writing, professional communication, and writing for digital environments alongside your major.
Format
Hybrid
Credit Hours
18 credit hours
Additional Requirements
ENGL 220
Why Earn a Writing Minor?
Every field needs people who can explain ideas clearly and adapt them for a particular audience. The Writing Minor at SXU gives you opportunities to develop your voice, make deliberate choices about form and style, and revise your work with purpose. You can connect those abilities with creative interests and professional goals.
About the Program
Advanced Writing provides the foundation for a flexible selection of electives. You may study creative writing, professional communication, editing, digital writing, or related areas. Expert faculty in both the English and Communications departments help you consider how audience, purpose, and medium shape a piece of writing and how revision improves its effect.
All writing minors must complete a total of 18 credit hours with grades of C or above.
The writing minor draws on courses in English and Communication, connecting literary and creative work with public and professional communication. The department chair helps students plan a coherent set of electives.
- Adapt writing to audience, purpose, and medium.
- Develop clear organization and an effective voice.
- Revise and edit for clarity, coherence, and style.
- Use evidence and rhetorical choices to support a message.
- Create work in selected creative, professional, or digital forms.
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Diego Espina Barros
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Meet the Faculty
Amylou Ahava
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Anthony Arnone
Assistant Professor
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Marc Blanc
Assistant Professor
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Norman Boyer
Associate Professor
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Marianne McGeary
Lecturer
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