University of Minnesota
Department of Writing Studies
612-624-3445
writ@umn.edu


Department Name

Department of Writing Studies

Students on the East Bank Campus

Writing in the 21st century is global, social, and digital. An e-mail message or Twitter post can span the entire globe in mere seconds. A common scholarly goal in this department is the sustained study of all aspects of writing and literacy practices—history and theory, production and circulation, material and digital, social and collaborative, textual and visual. Our work coheres around a common set of questions about the global, social, and digital literacies of our time.

Photo by Matt Buchanan

Welcome to the Department of Writing Studies. Part of the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts, we are an academic department with nationally recognized strengths in teaching and scholarship in rhetoric, writing, and technical communication.

The department touches the lives of nearly every undergraduate on campus through the First Year Writing program, as well as popular courses including technical writing and communication, professional writing, rhetorical theory, and digital communication. We are also the administrative home of the Center for Writing and the Second Language Studies program.

Graduates from our B.S., M.S., and certificate program are prepared for successful careers in scientific and technical communication and are in high demand by companies both local and national. Our M.A. and Ph.D. graduates pursue careers in academic settings, becoming college and university professors.

If you have any questions, please email or call us. Or stop in and visit us in Nolte Hall on the Minneapolis campus.

SUMMER 2013:
Administrative staff have been temporarily relocated due to elevator construction in Nolte Center. Visitors can find us in 345 of Fraser Hall.

Featured Items

  • Coaxley Ames and Mikelonis Award Recipients

    On behalf of the Undergraduate Committee in the Department of Writing Studies, I am pleased to announce the recipients of our 2013 undergraduate awards.

    * Coaxley Ames Writing Excellence Award ($1000): Heidi Cameron and Carah Kucharski
    * Victoria Mikelonis Memorial Award in S&TC ($200): Christi Mastley

    More information about these awards can be found on the Undergraduate Awards & Scholarships web page.

    Congratulations to Heidi, Carah, and Christi!

     June 3rd, 2013