Required Credits: 30 (plus a required minor-generally 18 credits)

Core Courses: 18 credits

Required courses (12 hours):

• PTW 215 Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing
• PTW 312 Report Writing and Design
• PTW 375 Professional and Technical Editing or PTW 359/ENG 359
• PTW 472 Professional and Technical Writing Capstone Course: Portfolio Presentation

and two courses (6 credits) from the following:

• PTW 210W Foundations of Argument
• PTW 245W Critical Literacy
• PTW 370W Foundations of Rhetoric

Elective Courses (12 credits, of which 9 credits must be 300- or 400-level courses):

• PTW 211W Introduction to Business & Management Communication
• PTW 251W/GS251W Rhetorics of Gender Activism
• PTW 290, 291, 390, 391, 490, 491, 590, 591 Special Topics in Professional and Technical Writing
• PTW 316W Collaborative Writing in the Workplace
• PTW 340W/GS340W Writing in Gender-Based Activist Organizations
• PTW 470 Reading and Writing: Contemporary Theory and Practice
• PTW 480 Internship in Professional and Technical Writing
• PTW 481, 482, 483 Independent Study in Professional and Technical Writing