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Apr 03, 2025
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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Professional Writing
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The Program in Writing and Rhetoric, College of Arts and Sciences
Director: Peter Khost
Undergraduate Program Director: Patricia Medved
Staff Assistant: Adam Schultheiss
Office: 2005 Humanities
Phone: (631) 632-7390
Advanced knowledge of professional writing helps learners in all disciplines become better prepared to write successfully in professional environments. This minor complements any major, as professional writing skills are necessary in many upper-level courses and highly valued in most professions. Students are encouraged to complete an experientially-based project under a Program in Writing and Rhetoric faculty member’s mentorship.
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Minor Requirements
Completion of the minor requires 21 credits. At least 15 of the 21 credits must be taken at Stony Brook University. Transfer credits are awarded by permission of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric’s Undergraduate Program Director. Courses taken for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher. Elective Courses (choose any three):
- WRT 300 - Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Writing 3 credits
- WRT 301 - Writing in the Disciplines: Special Topics 3 credits when offered with topic “Technical Communications”
- WRT 302 - Critical Writing Seminar: Special Topics 3 credits when offered with a relevant topic, such as “Writing for the Social Sciences,” “Writing for the New Media,” “Communicating Across Cultures and Contexts,” “Rhetoric and Culture,” “Visual Rhetoric”, “Global Literacies,” “Feminist Rhetorics,” “Fiction Writing,” “Creative Nonfiction,” “Playwriting,” and “Practice of Editing and Publishing”
- WRT 303 - The Personal Essay 3 credits
- WRT 305 - Writing for the Health Professions 3 credits
- WRT 306 - Tutor Training 3 credits
- WRT 307 - Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine 3 credits
- WRT 319 - Nonprofit Business Writing 3 credits
- WRT 320 - Rhetoric and Culture 3 credits
- WRT 321 - Writing for Social Justice 3 credits
- WRT 375 - Technical Communication 3 credits
- WRT 376 - Digital Rhetorics 3 credits
- WRT 377 - Special Topics in Digital Writing 3 credits
- WRT 380 - Advanced Research Writing: Theories, Methods, Practices 3 credits
- WRT 381 - Advanced Analytic and Argumentative Writing 3 credits
- WRT 382 - Grant Writing 3 credits
- WRT 487 - Independent Project 0-6 credits
- WRT 488 - Internship 0-6 credits
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