Minor in Writing and Communication
The School of Journalism, Writing, and Media offers a Minor in Writing and Communication to all UBC undergraduate students in degree programs that allow students to complete a minor in the Faculty of Arts.
The program will focus on the role of writing and communication in knowledge-making, primarily in academic, professional, and public contexts.
Students may declare their Minor in Writing and Communication after completing 27 credits (second year standing).
The Minor will consist of 21 credits, of which 18 credits must be at the 300-level or above:
Lower-Level Requirements (3 credits)
- WRDS_V 200 (3) Writing and Communication Foundations
Upper-Level Requirements (9 credits)
- WRDS_V 400 (3) Writing and Communication Capstone
- 6 credits of 300- or 400-level WRDS_V courses (from the List of Courses, below)
Upper-Level Requirements (9 credits)
- 9 credits of 300- or 400-level courses (from the List of Courses, below) that explore the writing and communication practices used in specific communities or contexts to make knowledge, with an emphasis on academic, professional, and public contexts.
List of Courses
- WRDS_V 350 Knowledge Making in the Disciplines
- WRDS_V 360 Knowledge Popularization: Research Writing in New Media
- WRDS_V 370 Research Writing and Marginalization
- WRDS_V 390 Writing Disability
- WRDS_V 450 Writing Practices for Publics and Publication
- WRDS_V 498 Special Topics in Writing Studies
- WRDS_V 499 Directed Studies in Writing Studies
- ANTH_V 332 Oral Tradition
- CHEM_V 300 Communicating Chemistry
- CRWR_V 302 Writing for Podcast
- CRWR_V 305 Intermediate Writing of Creative Nonfiction
- CRWR_V 312 Interactive Storytelling
- DSCI_V 320 Visualization for Data Science
- COMM_V 390 Business Writing
- COMM_V 395 Business Communications
- ENGL_V 301 Technical Writing
- ENGL_V 309 Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- ENGL_V 312 Discourse and Society
- FNIS_V 300 Writing First Nations
- GRSJ_V 307 Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
- GRSJ_V 327 Theories of Representation and Difference
- INFO_V 419 Information Visualization
- JRNL_V 325 Fundamentals of Community Reporting
- JRNL_V 320 Multimedia Journalism
- JRNL_V 425 Journalism and Social Change
- SCIE_V 300 Communicating Science