USI offers a minor in rhetoric and writing, which empowers you to learn to compose, design, and convey information clearly in digital and print documents for business, civic, education, government, medical, non-profit, scientific, and technical industries. Coursework sharpens your creative problem solving, critical thinking, and research skills through study and practice of professional, technical and rhetorical writing principles. Expert faculty with industry experience guide you in seminar-sized classes to analyze and engage readers with effective, verbal-visual blended content and to collaborate with community leaders on service learning projects. PWR complements business, communications, health professions, science and other liberal arts courses by helping students understand how people and their technical cultures interconnect. Internship opportunities are available. This program’s capstone culminates with students’ individual, electronic, professional writing portfolios.
Additional credit hours could indicate a major, second minor, or certificate. A minimum of 120 credit hours is required to graduate.
An undergraduate student should initiate a Change of Academic Program if they wish to add or remove a minor.
The student obtains a Change of Academic Program form from the Registrar's Office or the department of the new major/minor, secures the signature of the department chair/director (or dean) of any major/minor to be added, and returns the form to the Registrar's Office for processing.
A student must submit the completed form by the Thursday before priority registration if the change is to be made within the current semester. Unless granted a waiver by the department of the new major, the student must meet all current program requirements for graduation.
Graduating with a Professional Writing and Rhetoric minor hones versatile critical analysis, research, editing, and writing skills, qualities employers demand in both public and private sectors. Courses practice skills critical to such fields as human resources, intercultural and digital communication, the study and practice of law, teaching, advocacy, and public service. The minor is a great complement to most liberal arts majors as well as any future profession which will require writing (anthropology, communications, teaching, graphic design, history, journalism, philosophy, political science, sociology, health administration, business administration, management, marketing).
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The University of Southern Indiana is committed to making college accessible to those wishing to further their education by providing numerous scholarships, grants, and financial aid options to assist students in managing tuition expenses.
