Minor in Professional Writing

Prepare to address the various kinds of writing needed in today's digital-age workplace, gain meaningful hands-on workplace experience, and add valuable credentials to your resume by completing coursework and an internship for the Minor in Professional Writing. This minor is designed to supplement any undergraduate major.

When you've completed 15 hours of the writing minor's coursework, including any version of HUM COL 450, you can submit the formal application, your resume, and a writing portfolio for the capstone of our program, the professional writing internship.

The internship coordinator will work with you to place you with one of our more than 100 workplace partners in an industry related to your prospective field or career. You will work with writing professionals for 10-12 hours a week at a Columbus-area business, government agency, academic unit, or nonprofit organization during a regular academic quarter at Ohio State. You will also attend an internship class (HUM COL 589) for 2 hours each week, earning 5 hours of course credits.

A note about semester conversion: We promise to work with you to ensure that the quarter-to-semester conversion does not disrupt your progress to completion of the professional writing minor. We will craft our courses and electives so that changes to the calendar and to the courses involved will not affect the quality of our program. Learn more at our Conversion page.