Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Professional Writing, Graduate Certificate


Academic Information

We have designed this program to provide advanced post-baccalaureate training in the communication skills that are in daily demand among engineers, scientists, finance persons, and other professionals at work in business, industry, and government.

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College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Professional Writing, Graduate Certificate


Careers

What Can I Do with a Certificate in Professional Writing?

Professional writing and other technical communication skills are important for anyone who creates or manages content at work. Our programs can prepare you for a career or help you to advance in your current career in non-profit, research, government, industry, and corporate communications.  

Career opportunities that might be pursued:
  • grant proposal writer 
  • technical writer
  • technical editor
  • document project manager
  • web content writer/strategist

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Professional Writing, Graduate Certificate


University Requirements

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Academic Catalog - 2024-2025

College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Professional Writing, Graduate Certificate


Overview

In addition to University Requirements:

Students may be able to use some courses to meet more than one requirement. Contact your advisor for details.

Minimum Units for Completion 18
Fieldwork Experience/Internship Fieldwork Experience/Internship may be required by chosen emphasis or offered as an option.

Purpose Statement

The Professional Writing Certificate program will help you to create excellent workplace documents such as project proposals, grant proposals, reports, and emails. It will also help you to implement best practices in creating user-facing documents such as product and service descriptions, help files, and instruction manuals. Your participation in our courses will increase your skills in audience awareness, document design, document project management, and editing. These skills are important for anyone who writes at work and can prepare you for a career or help you to advance in your current career as an administrative professional, grant proposal writer, technical writer, technical editor, or any other type of professional writer in many careers such as project management, program management, and non-profit, research, government, and corporate communications.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students completing the Certificate in Professional Writing will have mastered the following bodies of knowledge and related skills (specific courses for each outcome shown in parentheses):

Bodies of Knowledge Mastered

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College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Professional Writing, Graduate Certificate


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College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Professional Writing, Graduate Certificate


Campus Availability

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