Briar Cliff University - The Catholic Franciscan Learning Place

Writing

Bachelor of Arts

Writing offers a lifetime of challenge and reward. Whether its result is a novel or a technical proposal, the writer’s work is essential to informing and improving society. The “information revolution” insures that the writer’s skills will be increasingly in demand to create, shape, communicate, and translate knowledge.

Upon graduation, students majoring in writing will be able to write clearly and persuasively; research, organize and communicate information effectively; compose in standard journalistic, business, and creative literary forms; help others with their writing; appreciate well-crafted writing; communicate effectively to a live audience; use their writing skills to serve others in their communities; and explore career options and implement job search strategies.

The major offers three separate emphases:

The creative writing emphasis will typically include work on a campus publication, an independent study and study in a performing art or craft.

The business writing emphasis will typically include supporting coursework in business administration and quantitative and analytical skills.

The composition-linguistic-rhetoric emphasis is intended as preparation for graduate study. Students pursuing this emphasis will need supporting coursework in the humanities, and may choose relevant courses from computer science and psychology.