Attention students:聽PWR is now offering a micro-credential badge! Appropriate for students in any major or minor, including PWR majors and Professional Writing minors.

A Classical Liberal Arts Education for the 21st Century

PoWeR: Create, Collaborate, and Communicate

2018 Sticker Design by Hayden McConnell

Rhetoric, one of the oldest liberal arts developed in both ancient Greece and non-Western cultures to prepare citizens for active participation in democratic society, has long been focused on connecting itself to 鈥渢he life of the polis.鈥 As a 21st century embodiment of this grounding liberal art, the B.A. in Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) major reflects a national trend in higher education to more clearly connect the liberal arts to worlds beyond the walls of academia. With a curriculum that is process-oriented rather than product-oriented, PWR prepares students to be more critically reflective communicators in their daily lives and, primarily, workplace contexts. PWR majors connect course content to hands-on practice in , , and a , and they showcase their developing professional identity in an .

PWR alumni are ethically oriented and civically responsible communicators, attentive to unequal power dynamics, actively addressing聽 issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity in their daily writing lives. Alumni pursue careers as writers, editors, and information designers in the non-profit and government sectors, publishing, science writing, law, marketing, and many other industries.

*黑料不打烊 also offers a new 补苍诲听an interdisciplinary聽Professional Writing Studies minor.聽