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Nov 23, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Writing, Literature, and Publishing: Publishing Concentration, B.A.
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The undergraduate faculty of Writing, Literature, and Publishing is committed to the following learning objectives for the BA in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing program with a Publishing concentration.
Students will:
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Develop close reading skills and the ability to think and communicate critically.
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Recognize literary forms and the ways context deepens an understanding of literary texts.
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Demonstrate research skills and actively engage with a variety of sources.
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Articulate how writing creates meaning and conveys values and ideas, and may also reflect, contribute to, or critique social, cultural, economic, and political perspectives and biases.
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Employ one or more professional skills for modern publishing environments.
Students take introductory and advanced publishing courses, in addition to courses in literature that ground them in the English-language tradition and introduce them to other traditions.
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Required Courses
Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing with a Publishing concentration complete 52 credit hours. No more than 4 credits of internship (PB 499 ) may be used toward the credits required for the BA degree. Taken together, the two required 400-level courses serve as a capstone experience, giving students the opportunity to explore specific aspects of publishing in depth and prove their mastery of writing, editing, design, production, and/or business skills.
Two courses from the following (8 credits):
Two Literature courses at the 300 or 400 level (8 credits)
Two courses from the following (8 credits):
Two courses from the following (8 credits):
One Publishing course at the 300 level (4 credits)
Two Publishing courses at the 400 level, including SA 400: Partnered Studio (8 credits)
One course in Literature, Publishing, or Writing at the 200 level or above (4 credits)
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