Jobs & Internships

February 3, 2026 Callie McNorton

Why you should apply to an Internship

According to Forbes, Interns are almost 25% more likely than non-interns to start a full-time position within 6 months of graduation. The article goes on to suggest that even if you don’t secure a job from the company you intern for, there are still invaluable experiences to be had and professional connections to be made. An internship can count as a course credit and the WRD department has many resources to help you succeed during the duration of the internship. Amber Corkey and myself, Callie McNorton, are both MAWRD students who have utilized internships to seek professional growth and gain

October 5, 2022 Amanda Finn

Job Sleuth: Grant & Proposal Writing

When students decide to pursue a career in professional writing, grant writing might not immediately come to mind. However, knowing how to write grants and proposals is an important work skill even if you have no intention of pursuing that industry. That’s why Professor Lisa Dush’s WRD 526 Grant and Proposal Writing class for graduate students is popular year after year. Students from other departments flock to it too–not just the WRD folks. So we asked Professor Dush to tell us a bit more about her class and how the skills you learn in WRD 526 can help prepare you

May 5, 2022 Kristin Fleming

Alumni Spotlight: Krissy Wilson

We caught up with yet another WRD alumna who took a more teaching oriented career path. Krissy Wilson (class of 2018) is an Instructional/Learning Designer at Northwestern as well as an adjunct here at DePaul, and we checked in with her to see what her day-to-day is like, and how WRD helped prepare her. What about this job drew you in? Did you know a career like this was an option? After I completed an MFA in Writing at the School of the Art Institute in 2014, I ended up applying to DePaul’s MA in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse, looking

May 3, 2022 Amanda Finn

Alumni Spotlight: Rachel Landgraf

After graduation, life moves pretty fast–and sometimes in directions you never expected. At least, that’s the case for alumna Rachel Landgraf who graduated with her Master’s degree in New Media Studies in 2017. For the last three and a half years, she has been working for United Airlines. We had the chance to catch up with her recently to see what she’s been up to, where her academic work has taken her and to see if she had any advice to share. What do you do for a living? Is it what you believed you’d be doing after grad school?

March 2, 2022 Amanda Finn

Job Sleuth: Sports Writing

Among the classes in DePaul’s WRD program, there are several you would probably find clones of in other similar programs around the country. But in pursuit of a professional writing career through the program a class like Professor Justin Staley’s WRD 284: Sports Writing in America: Myths, Memories, Heroes and Villains, you’re bound to learn a variety of skills that will help in a variety of writing work capacities. Just because the class is about sports writing doesn’t mean you necessarily have to take that professional route after graduation. It’s also possible you’ll fall in love with the topic and