Seats Still Available in WRT Classes for Winter 2026!
Looking for classes for Winter 2026?
Consider taking a writing class to build your creative and professional storytelling skills. We still have seats available, so check out the brief course descriptions below and register for courses in Banner while you still can!
Have questions? Give us a call at 616-331-3411 or email us at [email protected].
WRT 307: Consulting with Writers
WRT 307 gives you hands-on experience consulting with writers in academic, professional, and creative contexts. You’ll learn practical strategies for consulting with student writers, copyediting, freelance ghostwriting, and developmental editing, all while building your own writing and editing skill and fulfilling an SWS requirement.
Meeting Times: T/Th, 11:30 am -12:45 pm
Prerequisite: WRT 200
Professor: Amy Ferdinandt Stolley
WRT 320: Intermediate Poetry Workshop
In WRT 320, you will work to deepen your relationship with language and your own poetic voice. We’ll read obsessive, lively poems that challenge convention. We’ll work to create a respectful writing community in which to share work with each other. You’ll leave the course with a portfolio of poems and the skills to continue writing them.
Meeting Times: M/W, 1:30-2:45 pm
Prerequisite: WRT 219
Professor: Sasha Debevec-McKenney
WRT 351: Writing for the Web
In WRT 351, we reverse-engineer the web texts you see every day, from microcopy on buttons to the stories tucked into recipe blogs. You’ll practice professional web writing for real audiences, shaping structure, voice, and flow while creating content that grabs attention, guides readers, and shows up in search. Along the way, you’ll experiment with design basics, user experience principles, and the tools writers use to publish on the web--all practical, marketable skills you can immediately add to punch up your résumé.
Meeting Times: T/Th, 10-11:15 am
Prerequisites: Junior standing or CIS Major
Professor: Alisha Karabinus
WRT 353: Visual Rhetoric & Document Design
WRT 353 gives you the opportunity to gain more hands-on experience with the industry-leading Adobe Creative Suite while investigating how visual designs function in the world. You will have the chance to create pictograms, illustrated instructions, infographics, and other visual documents suitable to include in your professional portfolio.
Meeting Times: T/Th, 2:30-3:45 pm
Prerequisite: WRT 253 or Junior Standing
Professor: Christopher Toth
WRT 354-03: Writing in the Global Context
WRT 354 will help you see connections between culture, language, and technology by widening your horizons without the need to travel. Becoming familiar with job application practices in other countries through our international virtual exchange project with European universities is students’ favorite part of this course. WRT 358 fulfills SWS and General Education Issues requirements in Globalization.
Meeting Times: T/Th, 8:30-9:45 am
Prerequisite: Junior Standing
Professor: Zsuzsanna Palmer
WRT 360: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
In WRT 360, you’ll turn your real-life experiences, obsessions and questions into compelling writing that connects with an audience. “Creative nonfiction” means using all the tools in a creative writing toolbox—like scenes, characters, description or humor—to explore and tell true stories. Your writing and editing skills will improve in a supportive workshop of fellow writers, readers, and thinkers.
Meeting Times: M/W, 1:30-2:45 pm
Prerequisite: WRT 219
Professor: Caitlin Horrocks
WRT 460: Advanced Creative Nonfiction
In Writing 460 we will: read writers like Eula Biss, Leslie Jamison, Nick Flynn, and Maggie Nelson; think about how to move from writing shorter works and towards building a book; and do in-depth workshops of your own writing. We’ll also spend time with acclaimed nonfiction writer, Donald Quist, and talk about how to craft a writing life post-graduation: where to publish, how to find an agent, what grad school is all about, and getting a job in nonfiction.
Meeting Times: T/Th, 1-2:15 pm
Prerequisite: WRT 360
Professor: Beth Peterson