Elective Courses (6 hours)
Students are strongly urged to take courses from the emphasis courses in the Culture and Society, MALS . These MALS courses help students build expertise in such issues as race and ethnicity, gender, ethics or science. Alternatively, the growing need for people to understand health care argues for taking the course MLS 562 - The U.S. Healthcare System and Patient Advocacy . And the importance of new media suggests that students consider MLS 648 - Social Consequences of New Media if they have not already taken it as one of the emphasis courses above.
Many of the emphasis courses may connect students to internships or other hands-on experiences in writing, editing or publishing, but students may also choose MLS 697 - Internship as one of their elective courses as well as MLS 599 - Independent Study or MLS 693 - Independent Study .
If students want more work in a particular writing form, they may also choose one of the ENG 400-level writing courses in poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction with approval of the MALS program coordinator and the course instructor. Extra work, specified by the course instructor, will be required to attain graduate credit. Finally, any of the courses in the Sports Leadership course of study in the Master of Leadership Studies degree would be appropriate for those interested in sports writing.