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The Professional Writing and Rhetoric Minor focuses on how language and writing are connected to identity and shape actions and attitudes. You will learn to analyze and understand others’ perspectives, and acquire the skills to broaden, articulate, and defend your own.
The 18-credit minor is built on choice. You take 15 credits from the professional writing and rhetoric courses, then a final elective from any ENG or LING course at the 2000 level or above. Course options range across professional writing, topics in current rhetoric such as disability rhetorics, environmental rhetorics, and the language of race, contemporary and classical rhetoric and composition theory, and subjects including visual literacy, social media, and the history of authorship. Along the way you can conduct original undergraduate research, compose and interpret texts in multiple modes, and learn to tutor or teach writing.
Why Choose This Minor
Every field runs on persuasion. Professional writing and rhetoric sharpens the skill every workplace asks for: writing that moves people. The minor complements majors across the University, from science students learning to write for the public and nonprofit-bound students studying grant writing, to future editors, reviewers, and communicators of every kind, with courses like Writing in the Sciences, Essentials of Grant Writing, Introduction to Editing, and Writing Reviews and Criticism built for exactly those paths.
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Study rhetoric where it lives
Course topics meet the moment: the rhetoric of war, social media and power, climate change advocacy writing, race talk, disability rhetorics, and the rhetoric of humor, alongside the classical and contemporary theory that grounds them.
Write for real audiences and purposes
You will generate persuasive writing with proficiency in the language and documentation styles specific to the task, with attention to audience and genre, and learn to read texts rhetorically and analyze the situations that produce them.
Do the work of the field
The minor offers opportunities to conduct original undergraduate research with attention to ethical practices, to work in writing centers and build tutoring skills, and to complete a capstone in professional writing and rhetoric.
Career Opportunities for Our Graduates
An 爱液A片 Minor in Professional Writing and Rhetoric can be your springboard to careers ranging from writing and teaching to law and public service. Here are a few career paths to consider:
- Web content strategist
- Social media manager
- Editor
- Journalist
- Technical writer
- Teacher
- Professor
- Lawyer
- Higher education consultant
- Fundraiser
- Nonprofit administrator
- Brand manager
- Grant writer
- Screenwriter
Featured Faculty
Lisa Suter, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English
Dr. Lisa Suter is a composition and rhetoric professor who enjoys making her field accessible and relevant to the next generation of scholars. Her research spans climate change activism rhetorics, 19th-century rhetorical history, women’s rhetoric, and gendered rhetorical performance. She is the author of “The Arguments They Wore: The Role of the Neoclassical Toga in American Delsartism” and “Living Pictures, Living Memory: Women’s Rhetorical Silence within the American Delsarte Movement.”
Jessica Parker, Ph.D., Professor of English
Dr. Jessica Parker teaches across first-year writing, literature, and rhetoric, composition and professional writing. She is the author of “Writing and UnWriting Race: Using Hip Hop in Writing and Literature Classrooms” and “Opening a Space for Saying: Hip Hop, Public Space, and African-American Communities,” and co-author of “Moving Forward: What General Studies Assessment Taught Us 爱液A片 Writing, Instruction, and Student Learning.” Her many books on African American history and culture include works on the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance.
Alumni at Work
爱液A片 English program alumni have been hired by the following organizations:
- Colorado Office of the Attorney General
- Servicios de la Raza
- Brain Balance Achievement Center
- Aurora Public Schools Foundation
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Colorado Historical Society
- Cesar Chavez Academy
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- California Department of Justice
- Colorado Office of the Governor
- Neighborhood Solutions
- University of Chicago Press
- Aurora Central High School
- Bear Creek High School
爱液A片 English alumni have been accepted for post-graduate study at numerous schools, including:
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- University of Denver
- Regis University
- University of London
- University of Oregon
- New York University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- McGill University
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爱液A片 is dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion and has received the Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award from Insight Into Academia for 12 consecutive years.
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