Baruch College is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The school offers a Business and Financial Writing course through its journalism program.
The class is designed to develop writing, reporting and researching skills with regard to business and economic issues. Students will also learn basic business concepts and discuss critical economic challenges that will affect their writing.
Students will write a number of short pieces in the classroom and four long articles at home. Research methods such as locating and interpreting government documents and economic reports and data will be taught.
Baruch College's English 2150 course is a prerequisite for the class as of 2011.
Chatham University of Pittsburgh awards a master's of professional writing degree through its College for Continuing and Professional Studies. One of the program's required courses is Financial Writing.
The primary concern of the Financial Writing course at Chatham is the best methods of communicating financial information through writing. Subjects covered by the class include presentations, correspondence, the use of charts and tables, audience analysis, grammar usage, information gathering and the organization of information and written reports.
Financial Writing is a three-credit course at the 600 (graduate) level.
Stevens Institute of Technology is a New Jersey-based school that offers an online Foundations in Financial Writing course through its Professional Communication program. It is a 500 (graduate) level course.
Subjects covered by Foundations in Financial Writing include the construction of financial documents, writing techniques for working with numbers, genres of financial writing, writing strategies and the organization of information.
Students will practice all of these skills through weekly written assignments. The course concludes with a final exam and a capstone project.
Drexel University awards an online bachelor's in communication, with a Corporate and Public Relations concentration. The degree covers a number of subjects, including financial writing. However, there is no one financial writing course. Rather, students learn aspects of financial writing through other courses covering particular fields of finance, economics and writing.
For instance, two introductory courses for the program are Expository Writing and Reading and Persuasive Writing and Reading. These courses are taken alongside classes such as Communication, Mass Media and International Studies.
As students advance, these disciplines converge in courses like Public Relations Writing and Language and Society.
Financial writing is one of the disciplines stressed in the program's official description.