The Certificate in Public and Professional Writing will provide students with additional training and experience in workplace and public (i.e., civic, community-based) writing.
The Public and Professional Writing Certificate may be completed fully online, although not all elective options or program prerequisites may be offered online. Newly admitted students choosing to complete this program exclusively via UCF online classes may enroll with a reduction in campus-based fees.
Certificate Admission Requirements
Transfer Notes
- Courses transferred from private and out-of-state schools must be evaluated for equivalency credit. Students must provide all appropriate documentation.
Certificate Requirements
- Students should work with a department academic advisor to select restricted elective courses that support the students' intended career or post-graduation path.
- Students cannot earn both the Certificate in Public and Professional Writing and the Minor in Writing and Rhetoric.
Prerequisite Courses
Online Pubic and Professional Writing Certificate
Degree Requirements
Required Courses
6 Total Credits
- Complete all of the following
- Complete the following:
- ENC3331 - Rhetoric and Civic Engagement (3)
- Complete at least 1 of the following:
- ENC3250 - Professional Writing (3)
- ENC4212 - Professional Editing (3)
- LIN3673 - Rhetorical Grammar (3)
Restricted Electives
6 Total Credits
- Complete at least 2 of the following:
- ENC3311 - Essay as Cultural Commentary (3)
- ENC3315 - Argumentative Writing (3)
- ENC4353 - Writing for Social Change (3)
- ENC4354 - Writing with Communities and Nonprofits (3)
- ENC3330 - Rhetorical Traditions (3)
- ENC3375 - Rhetoric in Popular Culture (3)
- ENC3521 - Writing Across Difference (3)
- ENC4374 - Gendered Rhetorics (3)
- ENC4378 - Writing in Global and Transnational Contexts (3)
- ENC3453 - Writing About Health and Medicine (3)
- ENC4275 - Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing (3)
- ENG3833 - Marketing Your Writing (3)
- ENC3433 - Multimedia Writing and Composition (3)
- ENC4416 - Writing in Digital Environments (3)
- ENC4434 - Visual and Material Rhetorics (3)
- ENC3373 - Cultural Rhetorics (3)
- ENC3417 - Literacy and Technology (3)
- ENC3250 - Professional Writing (3)
- ENC4212 - Professional Editing (3)
- LIN3673 - Rhetorical Grammar (3)
- ENC3351 - Writing for Publication (3)
- ENC3455 - Writing about Science and Technology (3)
Grand Total Credits: 12
Foreign Language Requirements
Total Undergraduate Credit Hours Required: 12Other Requirements
- Students must earn a minimum 2.5 GPA in all coursework used to satisfy the certificate.
- A grade of "C" (2.0) or better is required in each course used to satisfy the certificate.
- At least 6 hours used to satisfy the certificate must be taken from the Writing and Rhetoric Department at UCF.
