Graduate Certificate in Technical/Professional Writing

The Graduate Certificate in TechnicalProfessional Writing prepares students for careers that combine strong communication skills with technical expertise. Students explore the relationships among language, writing, and computing technologies. This program is specifically designed to prepare students for the challenges encountered in today’s rapidly changing, technologically global society. Our Graduate Certificate program is open to students with an undergraduate degree in any field, not just English Studies. This program attracts students who may be looking to change careers or who may need the credential for career advancement.

Admission to the Graduate School requires a student to show evidence of successful completion of a U.S. bachelor’s degree program or its foreign equivalent from a regionally accredited (in the U.S.) or an officially recognized/approved or accredited institution abroad. An applicant’s academic credentials, if earned outside of the U.S., are reviewed for the purpose of assessing institutional accreditation, as well as the U.S. equivalency of the degree and grades.