Current version - Indiana University South Bend

ENGLISH 4 179
(All courses are 3 credit hours, unless otherwise designated.)
Select any of these courses:
ENG-W 231 Professional Writing Skills
ENG-W 232 Introduction to Business Writing
ENG-W 234 Technical Report Writing
ENG-W 250 Writing in Context (variable topics)
ENG-W 270 Argumentative Writing
ENG-W 315 Writing for the Web
ENG-W 350 Advanced Expository Writing
ENG-W 367 Writing for Multiple Media
Select up to two of the following:
JOUR-J 200 Reporting, Writing, and Editing I
JOUR-J 341 Newspaper Reporting
JOUR-J 401 Depth Reporting and Editing
TEL-T 211 Writing for the Electronic Media
Select up to one of the following:
ENG-W 203 Creative Writing
ENG-W 260 Film Criticism
ENG-W 270 Argumentative Writing
ENG-W 301 Writing Fiction
ENG-W 302 Screenwriting
ENG-W 303 Writing Poetry
ENG-W 401 Advanced Fiction Writing
ENG-W 403 Advanced Poetry Writing
ENG-W 511 Writing Fiction (4 cr.)
ENG-W 513 Writing Poetry (4 cr.)
JOUR-J 413 Magazine Article Writing
TEL-T 331 Script Writing
Practicum/Internship Option
Students may, with permission of the Writing Certificate
Committee, enroll in one supervised writing internship
(ENG-W 398 Internship in Writing) or practicum after
they have completed at least 12 of their 18 hours of
course work in the program. Approval of an internship
or practicum is based on the strength of the proposal and
the value of the proposed work experience.
Approval of Substitute Courses
Certificate students may petition (only once, and in
advance) to have an unlisted second-level writing course
from another department applied to their certificate.
Academic Standards
A candidate for the certificate must earn a grade of B
or higher in any course for which he or she seeks credit
within the certificate program.
Means of Enrollment in the Program
At the time of enrollment in the certificate program,
each candidate for the certificate must submit to the
Writing Certificate Committee or the chair of the English
department a brief formal declaration of intention,
including a statement of professional goals and an
explanation of how the certificate program aids in the
achievement of those goals.
Enrollment Eligibility
For Undergraduate Students
A grade of B or higher in ENG-W 131 Elementary
Composition 1 or in any IU South Bend course approved
for the certificate is the prerequisite for enrolling in the
program. Because the Certificate in Professional Writing
is a directed program and not merely a collection of
writing courses, candidates for the program must
officially enroll and be assigned an advisor prior to
receiving credit for any course beyond the first 6 credit
hours that are eligible to be counted toward completion
of the certificate. A student may initiate an appeal
of this rule by submitting a portfolio of writing from
the previous courses he or she wishes to have counted
toward the certificate, along with a cover letter in which
the student makes a persuasive case for the coherence of
his or her previous course work in the context of specific
career or educational goals.
For Returning IU South Bend Graduates
Returning IU South Bend graduates seeking to enroll
in the certificate program must submit to the Writing
Certificate Committee a brief formal declaration of
intention, including a statement of professional goals and
an explanation of how the certificate program aids in the
achievement of those goals, no later than the end of the
second week of classes in the semester or session in which
the student is taking his or her first class in the program.
Returning IU South Bend graduates may petition to
have up to 6 credit hours of prior eligible course work at
IU South Bend (for which they received a grade of B or
higher) counted toward the certificate if the course work
in question was completed no more than two (calendar)
years prior to the date of enrollment in the certificate
program. Enrollment may be granted to such students
when the declaration of intention is accompanied by
a successful petition. Any returning IU South Bend
graduate may count 3 credit hours of prior eligible course
work at IU South Bend (at a grade of B or higher) toward
completion of the certificate, but enrollment is considered
probationary until the student has successfully completed
6 credit hours within the program.
For Other Graduate Students
Students who have at least a bachelor’s degree from
another accredited university may enroll in the
certificate program on a probationary basis. To qualify
for probationary enrollment, the candidate must
submit to the Writing Certificate Committee a brief
formal declaration of intention, including a statement
of professional goals and an explanation of how the
certificate program aids in the achievement of those
goals. Enrollment is considered probationary until the
student has successfully completed 6 credit hours within
the program.