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Writing Technologies and Digital Rhetoric Minor (18 Hours)

The Writing Technologies and Digital Rhetoric Minor emphasizes intellectual connectivity among texts, data, and technologies. It teaches students how to transfer the skills of critiquing written texts to critiquing and writing about multimodal texts and data in digital platforms, including machine-driven writing (AI). This minor satisfies bachelor's degree requirements of English and other disciplines. Students must complete four required courses in English and two electives with C or above to count toward the minor. No course for the minor should count twice toward a degree plan. 

Required Courses (12 hours)

ENGL 3361Word and Digital Technology
ENGL 3362Reading and Writing about Data
ENGL 4373Public Writing with Technology
ENGL 4374Texts, Tech, and Humanities

Electives (6 hours) from the following list:

ENGL 3375Grammar and Professional Editing
ENGL 4371Special Topics in Rhetoric and Writing
ENGL 4372Professional and Technical Writing
COSC 1315Programming Fundamentals for Non-CS Majors
COSC 1337The Object-Oriented Paradigm
COSC 2336Data Structures and Algorithms [TCCN: COSC 2336]
HRD 2330Information Technology and Communications
HRD 4320Job Analysis and Design
MARK 3311Principles of Marketing
MARK 4305Integrated Marketing Communication
MATH 1342Statistics [TCCN: MATH 1342]
MATH 1343Statistics II
MATH 2413Calculus I [TCCN: MATH 2413]
MCOM 2306Media Design and Production
MCOM 2313Introduction to Multimedia Production
MCOM 2340Introduction to Advertising [TCCN: COMM 2327]
MCOM 3311Visual Design
MCOM 3365Digital Photography