Professional Writing Program

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Office of Advanced and Professional Programs
Mark Taper Hall 355
(213) 740-1384
FAX: (213) 740-5002
Email: mpw@dornsife.usc.edu
dornsife.usc.edu/mpw
Director: Geoffrey Middlebrook, PhD

Professor of the Practice: Brighde Mullins, MFA

Assistant Professors (Teaching): Prince Gomolvilas, MFA; Dinah Lenney, MFA

Senior Lecturers: M.G. Lord; Timothy Kirkman

Lecturer: Gina B. Nahai, MPW

Programs

Master’s Degree

• •  Professional Writing (MPW)

Courses

Professional Writing Program

• •  MPW 500 Survey of Professional Writing
• •  MPW 510 Writers and their Influences
• •  MPW 511 Oral History: Witness and Writing
• •  MPW 512 Writer’s Marketplace
• •  MPW 515 Functional Writing for the Marketplace
• •  MPW 520 Writing Humor: Literary and Dramatic
• •  MPW 525 Nonfiction Strategies in Poetry and Prose
• •  MPW 526 Writing the Review
• •  MPW 527 Mash-Ups: New Ways to Tell Stories
• •  MPW 530 Techniques of Fiction Writing
• •  MPW 535 Literature and Approaches to Writing the Novel
• •  MPW 537 Fiction Writing Workshop
• •  MPW 538 Approaches to Writing the Novel
• •  MPW 540 Nonfiction Writing
• •  MPW 541 The Nonfiction Experience
• •  MPW 542 Writing About Place
• •  MPW 543 Writing Science
• •  MPW 544 New Media: Writing Online
• •  MPW 545 Memoir Writing
• •  MPW 546 The Personal Essay
• •  MPW 547 Selling the Nonfiction Book
• •  MPW 552 Principles of Poetic Techniques
• •  MPW 554 Poetry Hybrids
• •  MPW 557 Advanced Poetry Writing
• •  MPW 560 Principles of Dramatic Structure
• •  MPW 561 Writing for Stage and Screen
• •  MPW 562 Story Conference
• •  MPW 567 Screenplay Workshop
• •  MPW 568 Screenwriting across Genres
• •  MPW 575 In the Room: The Craft of Television Writing
• •  MPW 585 Seminar in Professional Writing
• •  MPW 589 Internship: Writers in the Field
• •  MPW 590 Directed Research
• •  MPW 592a Professional Writing Project
• •  MPW 592b Professional Writing Project
• •  MPW 592z Professional Writing Project
• •  MPW 594a Master’s Thesis
• •  MPW 594b Master’s Thesis
• •  MPW 594z Master’s Thesis
• •  MPW 599 Special Topics