MCOM 469 - Professional Writing Capstone | 2025-2026

Academic Year
2025-2026
Course Credits
3.00
Course ID
MCOM 469
Course Name
Professional Writing Capstone
Description
Serves as opportunity for students to bring diverse learning and skills from across their program in order to research, write and/or carry out a senior creative thesis, portfolio, or publishing project in literary journalism or narrative nonfiction. Students gain skills in curation, editing, project management, aesthetic research methodology, and integrative and performative thinking. Students will gain deeper scholarly and professional understanding of aesthetic research methodology, and integrative and performative thinking. Students will gain deeper scholarly and professional understanding of aesthetic considerations in communication, forge professional and academic contacts, and demonstrate mastery of relevant theory, principles, and writing strategies. The course concludes with a public performance to peers, faculty, and professional leaders.
NB
Course fee. Required of students majoring in the professional writing stream or minor. May be taken by other students with permission of instructor (sample writing may be required).
Prerequisite(s)
Students must be majoring in Media + Communication (Professional Writing Stream), and have third or fourth year standing.