The Dickinson State University Writing Program

 
 After more than a year of planning, proposing, and deliberating, 
the Department of Language and Literature offered the B.A and B.S. degrees
in Writing beginning in the fall semester of 1998, the first of their kind
in the North Dakota University System.
 
  Research conducted by the Department of Language and Literature 
suggested that students who pursue degrees in writing would have 
numerous employment opportunities when they graduate, including work 
as legal assistants, business mangers, news reporters, speech writers, 
editors, advertising copywriters, translators, grant writers, 
journalists, researchers, and report writers, among others. 
 
 Additionally, students who have degrees in writing will have the 
skills needed to seek advanced degrees in creative writing, mass
communications, law, and other related fields. 
 
 Both degrees require studies in News and Feature Writing, Managing 
and Editing Publications, Advanced Composition, Creative Writing, 
Technical Writing, Writing About Literature, Advanced Creative 
Writing, Desktop Publishing, and Senior Projects, as well as seven 
hours of electives in Journalism, English or Hispanic Literature.
 
 Currently the Writing Program provides a balance among the 
various kinds of writing taught at DSU--expository writing, creative 
writing, technical writing, analytical writing, and persuasive 
writing, as well as journalistic and personal writing.
 
 The writing program has grown ten fold since its inception and
has become one of the most popular offerings in the Department of 
Language and Literature.
 

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Last update October 23, 2005 by the Writing North Staff