Certificate in Writing - Public and Professional Writing

California State University - San Bernardino

The Certificate in Writing: Public and Professional Writing prepares students for professional, workplace, and public writing and editing in print and online contexts. Core certificate classes offer theoretical and rhetorical foundations for learning and engaging with central concepts and practices in public and professional writing. Elective classes in the certificate allow students to select writing classes that complement their academic majors and align with their professional goals. Students who plan to pursue writing-oriented or writing-intensive careers will benefit from both the core and elective classes, which are designed to prepare students for a variety of writerly possibilities, from professional writers to professionals who write, and prepare students to write confidently and successfully in a wide range of professions, genres, and contexts. Certificates may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended learning students and denote successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed to: impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies or produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline) or provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field.