CW Specialization Area Courses

These suggested possible (read: non-official) groupings offer students a way to focus your elective credits around particular skills, research directions, and preparation for potential jobs. You can follow one cluster; mix-and-match; or ignore them entirely, but hopefully they’ll help you answer the question: “What can I do with that CW major?”

Note: All 200-level course suggestions with an asterisk (*) would count as General Education credit, rather than major elective credit.

Professional and Technical Writing

  • 313 – Intro to PTW
  • 412 – Design for PTW
  • 413 – PTW for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Audiences
  • 430 – User Experience Research
  • 494C – Portfolios in PTW

The Study of Literature

  • *264 – US Popular Culture and the Politics of Representation (counts as a Gen. Ed. rather than as major elective credit)
  • 325 – Contemporary Literature and Digital Media
  • 346 – Ambassadorship and Asian American Literature
  • 347 – English Literature with an Accent: Hearing and Reading Difference
  • 431A/B – Shakespeare

Writing and Publishing 

  • *266 – Young Adult Literature (counts as a Gen. Ed. rather than as major elective credit)
  • 308 – Technical Writing
  • 389 – Introduction to Publishing
  • 389 – Sonora Review editorial practicum, spring only
  • 393/493 – Internship
    • Suggested: Persona (Literary Magazine), Sonora Review (Literary Magazine), Pine Reads Review, World of Words, etc.

Writing and Community

  • *221 – Field Studies in Writing (counts as a Gen. Ed. rather than as major elective credit, counts as 100 Percent Engagement)
  • *228 – Crossing the Border: Literature and Practice (counts as a Gen. Ed. rather than as major elective credit)
  • *229 – Early Mod Lit: Crossing the Color Line (counts as a Gen. Ed. rather than as major elective credit)
  • *248b – Intro to Fairy Tales (counts as a Gen. Ed. rather than as major elective credit)
  • 314 – Prison Writing
  • 389 – Intro to Publishing
  • 393/493 – Internship

Language and Its Uses

  • 355 – English Sociolinguistics
  • 406 – Modern English Grammar
  • 421 – American English
  • 425A/B – Old English
  • 455 (Teaching English as a Second Language)
  • 462 (Linguistics and the Study of Lit)

Undergraduate Certificate in Teaching English as a Global Language [link]

  • 355 (English Sociolinguistics)
  • 406 (Modern English Grammar)
  • 455 (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)