The Graduate Certificate program in Professional Writing provides students with experience in workplace communication. This innovative program offers professionals from a wide range of academic and career backgrounds an opportunity to improve and build upon their document writing and design skills. At least two Web-based courses in the program are offered each semester. Each course presents students with a blend of theoretical training and practical application of effective communication strategies. The curriculum is designed for immediate relevance in the workplace; to that end, faculty members incorporate cutting-edge classroom technologies, service-learning opportunities, and a wide range of community collaborations into their classes. To learn more, visit the certificate program website.

Required Courses: 15 Total Credit Hours

All courses are available in a Web-based format.

• ENC 5237 Writing for the Business Professional
• ENC 5337 Modern Rhetorical Theory

Select three from the following:

• ENC 5225 Theory and Practice of Document Usability
• ENG 5009 Methods of Bibliography and Research
• ENC 6245 Teaching Professional Writing
• ENC 5276 Writing/Consulting Theory and Practice
• ENC 5705 Theory and Practice in Composition
• ENC 5930 Current Topics in Professional Writing
• ENC 6216 Editing Professional Writing
• ENC 6217 Technical Editing
• ENC 6244 Teaching Technical Writing
• ENC 6247 Proposal Writing
• ENC 6257 Graphics in Technical Writing
• ENC 6261 Technical Writing, Theory and Practice
• ENC 6292 Project Management for Technical Writers
• ENC 6296 Computer Documentation
• ENC 6297 Production and Publication Methods
• ENC 6306 Persuasive Writing
• ENC 6332 Gendered Rhetoric
• ENC 6333 Contemporary Rhetoric and Composition Theory
• ENC 6335 Rhetorical Tradition
• ENC 6338 The Rhetorics of Public Debate
• ENC 6339 Rhetorical Movements
• ENC 6425 Hypertext Theory and Design
• ENC 6428 Rhetoric of Digital Literacy
• ENC 6429 Teaching Writing with Computers
• ENC 6945 Community Literacy Practicum
• ENC 6712 Studies in Literacy and Writing
• ENC 6740 Topics in Rhetoric and Composition
• LIN 5137 Linguistics
• LIN 5675 English Grammar and Usage

Additional technical writing and rhetoric and composition courses may also be used as electives with approval from the program coordinator

For information contact:

Kathleen Bell, Ph.D.
Writing and Rhetoric Department
College of Arts and Humanities
407-823-0782
Kathleen.Bell@ucf.edu

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