Publishing and Printing Arts

For more than 30 years, Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of English has offered a way to help students translate a love of books into an exciting professional career in publishing. The distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum in Publishing and Printing Arts (PPA) is highly respected by employers because it combines pre-professional skills and experience with the solid foundation of a liberal arts education. This six-course minor is designed to give students with talents and interests in writing, graphic design, communication, or business a head start into the world of publishing and a broad variety of related professions. The PPA program readily complements majors concerned with language and the written word, such as English, languages, education, public relations, journalism, marketing, and graphic design. But students majoring in a wide spectrum of disciplines—from biology to music to anthropology—have discovered the value of a PPA minor, too. It both helps to connect them to publishing career opportunities in those fields and provides a richer understanding of the complex roles that written communications of all sorts play in our lives and in our modern world.

Publishing and Printing Arts Minor

24 semester hours including:

• Three core courses are required
  12 semester hours

• • PPAP 301/ENGL 311/COMA 321: The Book in Society
  • PPAP 302/ENGL 312/COMA 322: Publishing Procedures
  • PPAP 321/ENGL 313/ARTD 315: The Art of the Book I

In addition to the above 12 semester hour core, students take three elective courses (12 semester hours) selected from at least two of the following categories:

• Writing/Editing

• • All English writing courses beyond WRIT 101, including ENGL 393
  • Approved courses in Communication or Publishing & Printing Arts: COMA 215, 342, 343, PPAP 491, 495

• Marketing/Management
  Approved courses in Business, Communication, or Publishing and Printing Arts:
  • BUSA 203, 305, 308, 340, 358, 361, 362, 363, 364
  • COMA 361, 421, 461
  • PPAP 491, 495

• Design/Production
  Approved courses in Art, English, Communication, or Publishing & Printing Arts:

• • ARTD 210, 220, 310, 320, 370, 410, 420, 470
  • COMA 226, 229, 401, 426, 429
  • PPAP 322/ENGL 314, PPAP 491, 495

Up to two courses (8 semester hours) can be counted toward both a PPA minor and other requirements, such as general education program elements, another minor, or a major. As part of their minor in Publishing and Printing Arts, students are encouraged to acquire practical experience in publishing-related work outside the classroom.