All writing majors are required to take 15 or more credits of elective writing courses. Nine or more of these credits are expected to be at or above the 300-level (junior level). These courses teach a certain style or form of writing, and are used to either support a degree concentration or specific career path. Writing majors have many courses to choose from to fulfill these credits. The available course options change by year or semester. 

When I graduate Ithaca College in May of 2014, I will have taken 36 credits of elective writing courses, including the following: Proposal & Grant Writing, Editing & Publishing, Grammar & Usage, Poetry I, Poetry II, Fiction I, Women & Writing, Writing as a Naturalist, Autobiography, several internships and the Distinguished Visiting Writer's Workshop. Here I have listed an explanation of some of the most influential classes and course work I have done.