ENGCOMP M185Professional Writing Capstone

English Composition · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

(Same as English M185.) Limited to junior/senior Professional Writing minors. Topical writing workshop on rhetorical strategies useful in written and multimodal genres. Intended to provide students with opportunity for serious engagement with writing project in their minor specialization under close faculty supervision and in constructive writing group. Reading, discussion, oral presentations, rhetorical analysis, and development of professional portfolio. Students develop their capstone projects, including identifying appropriate models, generic expectations, and rhetorical choices.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.

Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.