Professional Writing Program

Return to: USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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

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