Program Description

The Professional Writing & Publication programs gives students the freedom to build a degree that fits both their creative and professional goals. Classes cover a wide variety of composition areas, from creative writing to journalism, technical writing to magazine editing. Students also get hands-on experience writing for a newspaper, editing a literary journal, and exploring different career paths through internships.

As a CMU Professional Writing & Publication major, you will have opportunities to:

• enroll in an exciting variety of classes such as Creative Writing, Journalism, Editing and Publication, Language and Linguistics, and Special Topics in Writing.
• recent special topics include the following: Writing & Hollywood; Video Games, Culture, and Play; Sports Writing; Writing the Memoir; Visual Rhetoric; The Art of Storytelling; Imagination, Joy, and Harry Potter; and Humor, Comedy, and Meaning in Life.
• gain important experience as a journalist for The Collegian and as a contributor to/editor for Inscape, CMU’s Magazine of the Arts.
• tailor your degree based on a flexible curriculum that focuses on creative expression, writing as a process, genre exploration, hands-on learning, professional experiences and internships.
• develop a valuable skillset desired by employers in a variety of fields pertaining to journalism, editing, publishing, technical/business writing, creative writing, and marketing.
• prepare for graduate-level work in English, creative writing, journalism, publication, law and more.

Admission Requirements

To receive unconditional admission to Central Methodist University,
applicants have two pathways:

• Unconditional admission with a high school GPA of 2.5 and an ACT composite score of 18 or SAT Concordance of 960.
• Unconditional admission with a high school GPA of 2.75 with a college preparatory high school transcript as outlined below and no required ACT or SAT score (the high school GPA will be determined by the weighted GPA, if that GPA is noted on the high school transcript).

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5

Remarks:

• I20(Visa Letter) can be obtained only after submitting a bank statement with a balance of USD $38,490.
• Yearly tuition fee is given