About the Program
English Department
Ketchum Hall 213
(716) 878-5416english.buffalostate.edu/
The writing minor offers students an opportunity to design a writing program that coincides with their major and/or their career plans. Writing is perhaps the single most important skill students can develop, and the writing minor gives interested students a wide degree of flexibility in designing a program that increases that skill. It should appeal to English majors, communication majors, and students in applied or professional areas seeking a strong writing component in their studies.
Students design their program with the coordinator of the Writing major, the English Department chair, or the Communication Department chair. Students can focus their minor program on creative, journalistic, or technical writing, or they can take a combination of courses from these different areas.
Admission Requirements
Any matriculated student in good academic standing may declare this program.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
1. demonstrate the ability to produce effective, final texts in multiple genres
2. demonstrate a knowledge of the publishing industry and professional writing world
3. participate in professional writing activities
Program Requirements
Required Courses (3 credit hours)
ENG 201 THE CRAFT OF WRITING 3
Electives (15 credit hours)
Select 15 credit hours; 12 credit hours must be upper-division: 15
ENG 170 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
ENG 171 PORTRAIT MAGAZINE EDITING AND PRODUCTION 1 (1)
ENG 245 WRITING ABOUT THE ARTS
ENG 247 NATURE WRITING
ENG 266 WRITING THE PERSONAL: ESSAY, MEMOIR, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ENG 300 WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS
ENG 302 TECHNICAL WRITING
ENG 305 CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATIVE
ENG 306 CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
ENG 325 CREATIVE NON-FICTION
ENG 327 LITERARY PUBLISHING
ENG 340 PLAYWRITING
or THA 340 PLAYWRITING
ENG 402 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATIVE
ENG 403 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
ENG 409 WRITING GRANTS AND PROPOSALS
COM 210 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA WRITING
COM 303 WRITING FOR PRINT AND ONLINE JOURNALISM
COM 304 WRITING FOR BROADCAST (TV, RADIO, FILM)
COM 308 PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING
COM 325 FEATURE WRITING
COM 390 SPECIAL TOPICS: JOURNALISTIC WRITING 1
HUM 200 THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC
Total Credit Hours 18