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Welcome to Writing Studies
Whether it be in creative, technical, or community contexts -- compelling writing impacts the world. We offer a Bachelor of Arts in Writing Studies with the choice of three tracks.
Creative Writing
Emphasizes engaged writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Here students will try their hand at learning these elements of craft to explore the literary arts both in and beyond the classroom.
Technical Communication
Highlights the importance of effectively presenting information to various audiences. Here students will develop the skills necessary to communicate complex information in a way that is usable, compelling and grounded in user-centered design.
Rhetoric, Writing and Social Change
Explores writing as civic action. Here students will examine how power shapes writing contexts and develop their own sense of agency within the local and global communities to which they belong.
Our values
Writing Studies is bound by our shared commitment to fostering anti-racist and equitable learning environments. This community-driven ethos is powered by decolonial principles such as trust, respect and transparency that propel our writing community towards the collective future.
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Inspired by their immigrant parents, ‘Thai Guys’ and UW alumni Nuk, Nut and Note Suwanchote are aiming to change the conversation on Asian culture.
Alumnus Nuk Suwanchote, '17, is the director of a film exploring the experience of Asian American and Pacific Islander UW Tacoma students. The documentary, which includes Chancellor Sheila Edwards Lange, was produced by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation.
As UW Tacoma’s new writing director, Tabitha Espina wants to celebrate students in all their strengths.
She credits UW Tacoma with instilling in her the desire to give back to her community. She tells her story at the 2024 Unity Breakfast celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.
Associate Professor Rubén Casas depicts the continued delays in the Tacoma Town Center development adjacent to campus as an opportunity for a rethink about what downtown needs from a civic perspective.
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