Professional Writing at Georgia Southern

Enhance your effective communication skills by choosing a focus area that prepares you to adapt to multiple industries or strike out on your own as an entrepreneur and freelancer.

Choose from course topics like film genres & adaptation, digital storytelling, plain language & accessible design, social media, freelance writing, writing for social change, usability & user experience, and comics, culture, & composition. Make your mark as a critical thinker & problem solver while creating unique projects for your professional portfolio.

• Want to build your own media brand or create content for organizations or influencers? Choose content creation and become an expert in research, development, and content preparation!
• Want to make decisions about what gets published and help writers hone their work? Choose editing and publishing to practice techniques for working with organizations or publishing houses.
• Want to teach, translate, train or persuade others? Choose Linguistics and Rhetorical Studies to dive deep into how language works and how to make it work for you!
• Want to work in entertainment, literacy, and cultural analysis? Choose Media Literacy and Criticism to critically evaluate and review film, television, and digital storytelling.
• Want to solve problems and design information to help people make good decisions? Choose Technical Writing to help hone clients’ and customers’ experience with technology and information while managing teams and crafting clear and persuasive data and digital storytelling.
• Want to teach, tutor, or coach others? Choose Teaching and Tutoring to focus on teaching techniques that will help you empower others to learn linguistics, literature, and writing.

Last updated: 2/16/2024