Department
of Writing Studies
What's Inside
- • Writing Studies Dept. Homepage
- • Writing Studies Requirements
- • Courses: Spring 2008
- • Faculty Directory
- • Faculty Office Hours
- • Writing Workshop (Writ 1120 tutors)
- • Internships
Minors and Related Programs
- • Graduate
Program in English
- • Information
Design Minor
- • Journalism
Minor
- • Linguistics
Minor
- • Professional
Communication Minor
Contact Information
Department
of Writing Studies
Humanities 420
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota 55812
Telephone: 218.726.8131
Fax: 218.726.6882
Email: comp@d.umn.edu
Jill Jenson, Department Head
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NAME CHANGE INFORMATION: Click here to read about our department name change. About the Department Our department is committed to teaching, research, and service in writing, rhetoric, and linguistics. The department provides instruction in, and encourages the development of, student competence in writing. Writing Studies faculty also teach in cultural studies, English, humanities, information design, journalism, linguistics, and related fields in the liberal arts. In addition to Writ 1120 and a variety of 3000-level Advanced Writing courses, the department offers writing internships and independent study courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Students may develop an individualized major through the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. The Writing Studies Department coordinates minors in Information Design, Journalism, Linguistics, and Professional Writing & Communication. See the links to the left for more information. We also participate in the MA Program in English by offering graduate courses in the teaching of writing and in topics relevant to written discourse. Many of the MA students hold teaching assistantships in the Writing Studies Department.
Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Collaborative
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