Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing
Northern Arizona University

Program Details

Northern Arizona University offers an online Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing program. The program builds upon baccalaureate education to provide further professional communication skills.  These credit hours can also be used to fulfill requirements for a Master’s in English degree at NAU or the Professional Writing emphasis in the Master of Administration degree.  With this writing program you will learn best practices in creating user-facing documents and increase your skills in audience awareness, document design, document project management, and editing. 

Students learn to create a variety of workplace documents, including:

  • Project proposals
  • Grant proposals
  • Reports
  • Emails
  • Instruction manuals

Learning Pace

Institution-Paced

% Online

100% Online

School Accreditation & Licensing

Northern Arizona University is accredited by:

Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

Program Requirements & Restrictions

Minimum Education

Bachelor Degree

Recommended GPA

3.0 or above (4.0 scale)

Application Requirements

Essay/Writing Sample, Official College Transcript(s), Resume/CV