Academic Resources

Explore our writing academic resources, designed to support your academic aspirations.
Curriculum Guide

Writing Department

CLAS Advising Center

What Can I Do With This Major?

Career Resources

Unlock career potential in Writing! Discover resources to maximize your professional trajectory.

Career Assessment - PathwayU

Jobs via Handshake

Creative Writing Career Resources

Professional Writing Career Resources

Career Communities

Sample Writing Internship Sites

Internships provide a way for you to get hands-on, supervised experience in the world of work. You are able to apply the concepts you are learning in the classroom to a work environment.

• 20 Monroe Live
• Dzanc Books
• Grand Haven Convention and Visitors Bureau
• My Michigan Beach
• Steelcase
• Mercy Health
• Kent County Parks Foundation

General Information on InternshipsWriting Internships

Read about other Writing Internship Experiences

Join A Student Organization

Get involved with a student organization related to your major. Student orgs are a great way to get connected and explore career options!

• fishladder
• InWriting
• The Wordsmiths
• Organization of Professional Writers
• In the Margins
• Anchored in Poetry
• Student Reading Series

Student Organizations

Relevant Courses and Certificates for Building Skills

Developing the relevant skills that employers seek is an essential component of a student's education. GVSU students should consider strategic elective courses and certificates to pair with their major in order to gain additional skills.

• Distinction in Writing
• Workplace Technology and Communication Badge

Electives to Consider

Community Service Opportunities

Seek volunteer opportunities related to the field you're exploring as a way of testing out future careers.

The Civic Engagement Center keeps a list of current volunteer opportunities updated on their website. There are ongoing opportunities on a continuous basis, as well as on-campus and off-campus opportunities posted as they become available.
 

Civic Engagement Center

Writing Study Abroad Options

Through study abroad you’ll also set yourself apart from other job-seekers and graduate-school applicants in an increasingly competitive market.

"Writers constantly search for something new to write about, and we’re often given the advice of that old cliché: write what you know. Through study abroad, students can observe the cultures and landscapes of unfamiliar places, experiences that will never fail to give dynamic new material and endless inspiration for writing." -Ariana Hendrix, GVSU Graduate 2010, Writing Major

Writing Study Abroad
Explore Internships Abroad

Scotland: Writing in Action

Undergraduate Scholar Engagement

Pursuing academic, creative, and research experiences and projects outside the classroom is an excellent way to learn new skills and build a body of work in your field.

The Center for Undergraduate Scholar Engagement (CUSE) provides opportunities for undergraduate research and scholarship.

Center for Undergraduate Scholar Engagement (CUSE)

Where Alumni Have Landed

Writing Department Alumni Spotlights

• Scientific Marketing & Communications Manager - Genemarkers
• Content Strategist - Google
• Creative Team Lead of Digital and Social Design - Meijer
• Chief Marketing Office - Amazon
• Media Director - WTP Media/PMAX Dental
• Marketing Coordinator/Content Developer - Tonic as a part of Gilson Graphics
• Novelist and Assistant Professor of English - University of Utah
• Writing Consultant – Frederick Meijer Center for Writing and Michigan Authors
• Editor – SkipFiction
• Proposal Writer – JR Automation
• Freelance ESL and Academic Tutor, Writing Consultant, & Writer – Write Minded Language Services
• Freelance Writer and Editor – Upwork

Writing graduates pursue advanced degrees in:

• Creative writing
• Technical and professional writing
• Rhetoric and composition
• User Experience (UX) Design
• Marketing
• Communications
• Library and Information Science

GVSU Department of Writing Grad School Wiki