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By exploring various styles and genres of writing that are commonly used in the art world, students learn about writing for the arts including how to write grants, find appropriate funding sources, work with commercial exhibitions, catalog works, and compose short bibliographies of artists. Students also write articles in the style of contemporary art journals and engage in peer collaborations. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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With a broad immersion into the study and practice of promotion management, students develop and write a complete promotion plan, including a press release, press kit and brochure. Through a variety of written and oral communication exercises, students develop their communications skills to better promote themselves and their work. Topics include the study of promotional positioning strategies, promotion tool development and creation, and measuring promotional effectiveness. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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In today's Internet-dominated society, people ascertain much of their information from the Web. In order to improve the readability of Web materials, writers need to understand and gain confidence in using this rapidly emerging form of communication. In this course, students enhance their knowledge of writing in a scannable format, as well as other writing and editing techniques that enable them to compete in this increasingly sophisticated world of online publications and services. Prerequisite: CMPA 100 or CMPA 110 or ELDS 205 or ELDS 225.
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Using the sitcom as a model, students examine the three-act structured genre by writing an adaptation to a show now on television to create their own original sitcom. Students learn to analyze and address issues discussed in class regarding originality and successes in writing for television, as well as applying those skills as they develop their own original show. Students develop skills in character development, dialogue, plot, timing and visual writing techniques. Prerequisite: WRIT 177.
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From Shakespeare's plays to Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, students explore creative nonfiction from a fresh perspective, while developing a criteria from which to understand this genre's development to today's current bestseller status. Prerequisite: WRIT 177.
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Workplace writing including memos, proposals, pamphlets and instructions is examined and practiced in this introductory course. Students gain real-life writing experiences that help prepare them for the professional world. Prerequisite: ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an intense focus for students interested in publishing their work, covering elements of nonfiction writing such as tone, unity and thematic development. Students produce manuscripts for group readings. Prerequisite: WRIT 177.
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3.00 Credits
A focused study of one artist provides the basis for students to practice and master extensive researching, writing, and presentation skills. The essential relationship of writer/reader/subject is explored. Students produce a portfolio of documents based on the artist's life and work, to include promotional pieces, scripts for docent tours, analysis of work, creative responses, requests for funds, annotated bibliographies, catalog entries and/or reviews. Prerequisite: WRIT 205.
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This course provides a critical study of major 19th- and 20th-century British and American manuals of art and design, including works by Charles Eastlake, Ogden Codman and Edith Wharton, and Elsie deWolfe. Students examine these as expressions of a given era's style and taste and, thus, a reflection of that culture's values, as well is critically assessing them as literary works of art. Students write essays in response to these manuals, do comparative analyses, participate in group presentations, and produce an original quarter-length project of their own art and design writing. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, WRIT 277.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a critical study of the genres of American travel writing and autobiography. Students read seminal texts of each form spanning the 18th-20th centuries, including works by Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglas, Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Wharton and Bill Bryson. The issues of genre, gender and representations of the self are interrogated, as are the conventions and blending of the boundaries separating these forms. Students write critical analyses of these texts and produce a quarter-length creative essay reflective of the generic considerations discussed. Prerequisite: WRIT 277.
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