• The Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW) will prepare students for a writing career in television, film, education, publishing, business, and the literary arts.
  • This graduate degree addresses creative writing, screenwriting, scriptwriting, novels, poetry, technical writing, web writing, social media messaging, and much more. Hone your craft as students gain valuable writing and publishing experience and knowledge.
  • Students choose two from three concentrations to align with their career goals:
    • Applied Writing: public service writing, grant & proposal writing, technical writing, feature writing, social media writing, multimodal editing, web design
    • Composition & Rhetoric: teaching writing, rhetoric studies, workplace writing, multimodal writing, computers & writing
    • Creative Writing: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, and TV & screenwriting
  • By selecting student's concentration and support areas and their capstone topic and format, they can target their classes, writings, and projects to address their professional and creative goals. As students become experienced in producing and analyzing business, technical, journalistic, and creative texts, students will develop a sophisticated understanding of style, structure, and audience.
  • As a graduate, students will have the skills in writing that can move in many directions during their career; they will become a flexible writer who can tune in to the writing conventions of a given genre, adapting their writing style to the requirements of various rhetorical contexts in today’s print, electronic and multimodal environments.