Graduate Certificate in Writing
Degree: Certificate
Writing expertise enhances the impact you make in your profession! A focus on collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and communication creates value for your employer and positions you to advance in your career.
Why Study This Program?
The certificate program is designed for postgraduate students or community members seeking advanced coursework to better conceptualize and effectively compose diverse genres of writing, with particular attention to professional writing – business and technical communication, digital communication, grant-writing, and writing for publication in various venues, including portfolio preparation – and creative writing, or producing poetry, memoirs, various kinds of fiction, drama and screenplays. In addition, this graduate certificate will offer advanced coursework in the teaching of writing.
What Will You Learn?
The student’s curriculum, planned with the program coordinator, will include 18 credits from professional or creative writing, or the teaching of writing configured as five courses and one three-credit capstone experience. The certificate program can also provide a specialization for Millersville University graduate students seeking an M.A. or M.Ed. in English; its requirements complement the demands of both degrees.
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Career Opportunities
- Editor
- English Teacher
- Journalist
- Marketing Manager
- Academic Writer
- Communications Director
- Technical Writer
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