Writing Minor
Develop strong writing skills in technical writing like journalism and grant writing and more creative writing like poetry and fiction. Increase your media literacy and written communication skills.
Why Minor in Writing?
What do all careers require across industries? The ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
With a minor in writing, you’ll explore at least three different genres—from technical forms like journalism and grant writing to more creative forms like poetry and fiction. This exposure will increase your media literacy skills, as well as your ability to communicate with different target audiences.
A minor in writing can also scratch that creative itch you might experience if you’re pursuing a STEM major. Many of our Game students and those with majors in our ITS division take writing classes for that exact reason. A minor in writing adds creative expression into your curriculum while providing technical skills that will benefit you no matter what career path you choose.
Upon completion of this minor, you’ll be able to:
- Make edits on both micro and macro scales that demonstrate a mastery of the roles of form, diction, craft, and overall architecture in creating a piece of purposeful, coherent, and grammatically accurate writing of marketable quality.
- Organize ideas and language effectively so as to address specific readers and meet specific purposes.
- Explore, experiment with, and invent a variety of forms of writing in which original ideas combine with suitable and effective expression.
Courses in the Writing Minor
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Writing & Publishing Major
Talent is an amazing ingredient, but it’s not the whole recipe. Working writers need a solid foundation in the mechanics of writing, a storyteller’s gift for narrative, a poet’s eye for detail, and drive to keep adapting and improving improving in a fast-changing industry. Champlain College can give you all that and more.
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Creative Arts & Communication
With many majors to choose from, you decide how to bring your ideas to life and communicate them to the world.
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