PRWR 6000 - Issues and Research in Professional Writing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director. (Students must take this course within their first two terms in the MAPW program.)
The course is the required core course in the Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW) program. It introduces students to the three program concentrations applied writing, composition and rhetoric, and creative writing by focusing on key issues, theories, and research methods specific to each field as well as those that cut across all three concentrations. The course provides the necessary foundation of knowledge, skills, and practice through a variety of readings on contemporary issues and through discussion, critique, and application of research methodologies for students to complete MAPW requirements and course work within their concentration and support areas.