Minor Requirements
The minor in writing offers writing experience to students with majors outside the English program and to English majors. Students combine the minor with a wide range of other disciplines, including environmental studies, biomedical humanities, psychology, communication, history, and biology. This degree requires a firm commitment on the part of the student and approval by the writing faculty. Students should apply by the end of their junior year. Students cannot count more than two courses toward the minor that are also being counted toward a major.
- At least 17 credit hours in at least five courses are required.
- No more than two (2) courses can also count for the student’s major. Students majoring in English cannot count courses in the writing minor toward the English major.
- No more than three (3) may be selected from the 20000-level sequence.
- Students must take WRIT 22100 BASICS OF CREATIVE WRITING:CM.
- One of the five courses can be a 3 or 4 credit hour internship, with approval of the Writing Minor Committee.
An electronic application form should be requested from Mary Quade and then submitted to her electronically at quademr@hiram.edu. Materials should be submitted as one file, including both of the writing samples.
Course List:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| WRIT 20500 | STYLE/GRAMMAR FOR WRITERS:CM | 3 |
| WRIT 21400 | WRITING ABOUT NATURE:CM | 3 |
| WRIT 21500 | WRITING ABOUT:CM (topics vary) | 3 |
| WRIT 22100 | BASICS OF CREATIVE WRITING:CM | 3 |
| WRIT 24000 | SURVEY OF JOURNALISM | 4 |
| WRIT 24600 | SPORTS JOURNALISM | 4 |
| WRIT 25000 | WRITERS IN RESIDENCE (counted as a WRIT elective when completed with a passing grade for three semesters) | 1 |
| WRIT 28000 | SEM: (Special Topics) | 1-4 |
| WRIT 28100 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | 1-4 |
| WRIT 30400 | CRAFT & TECH: POETRY:CM | 4 |
| WRIT 30500 | CRAFT&TECH:CREATIVE NONFIC:CM | 4 |
| WRIT 30600 | CRAFT & TECH: FICTION:CM | 4 |
| WRIT 30900 | CRAFT & TECH: SCREENWRITING:CM | 4 |
| WRIT 31100 | WRITING FOR BUSINESS | 4 |
| WRIT 31200 | TECHNICAL WRITING | 4 |
| WRIT 31300 | TEACHING/SUPERVISING WRIT:CM | 4 |
| WRIT 31800 | MEMOIR | 3 |
| WRIT 32000 | PROFESSIONAL EDITING | 3 |
| WRIT 32100 | LITERARY JOURNALISM:CM | 4 |
| WRIT 33300 | RHETORICAL CRITICISM:IM | 4 |
| WRIT 40400 | ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN POETRY | 4 |
| WRIT 40500 | ADVANCED CREATIVE NONFICTION | 4 |
| WRIT 40600 | ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN FICTION | 4 |
Minors also will be expected to give a public reading of work produced in their writing courses the spring of their senior year. Mary Quade, Courtney Mauck, Willard Greenwood, and Jeff Swenson serve on the Writing Minor Committee.