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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Explores radio production values and possibilities. Includes basic news coverage, scripting, preproduction planning, interviewing, and audiotape editing and mixing.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how television production employs verbal and visual communication. Includes experience with principles, theory, and practice of television production and broadcasting in the studio. Requires work on individual and crew projects.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the rich literature of creative nonfiction. Students read and analyze the work of several contemporary literary journalists-such as John McPhee, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, and Joseph Mitchell-as well as a sampling of historical authors, such as Daniel DeFoe and Henry David Thoreau. Students identify themes and techniques of literary journalists and how these are similar to or different from fiction writers. They also have an opportunity to practice writing short pieces in this genre.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the way words and symbols shape human thought, behavior, and institutions. Traces how meanings arise, why communication is hazardous, and what makes messages subject to misinterpretation. Provides useful tools for functioning in a world in which language can be misleading and even destructive.
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3.00 Credits
Teaches basic principles and skills involved in news reporting and writing. These include interviewing, identification of news values, formal and informal research, story organization, lead writing, transitions, attibutions, and grammar and style, including application of the AP Stylebook and Libel Manual. Students develop their skills by writing several practice stories. They are invited to contribute stories to The Beacon, the weekly newspaper of MCLA.
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3.00 Credits
Seeks to develop each student's ability to understand and respond to a variety of literary texts by repeated practice in textual explication through discussion and written work. While most readings will be drawn from poetry, drama, and prose fiction, the course will also embrace, where appropriate, texts drawn from mass media. (English/Communications majors may not take ENGL 250 to fulfill their Creative Arts Core Curriculum requirement).
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3.00 Credits
Utilizes both primary and secondary literary and historical sources to explore ways in which a selected theme continually reappears in literature. Texts are examined, interpreted and evaluated within historical contexts; critical and comparative approaches are used to draw conclusions regarding content and context. The specific theme to be examined will vary and will be identified by subtitle.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the question of how an author's choice of a single literary mode, genre, or type affects the meanings of a text. May focus on plays, short stories, song lyrics, comedy, romance, novels, myths, or other genres. The specific genre to be examined will vary and will be identified by subtitle.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the craft of fiction and the student's own short stories. Literary works are analyzed for writing techniques, but the emphasis of the course is on constructive criticism of the student's work by peers and by the instructor and on exercises to help develop imagination and skill.
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3.00 Credits
Features the art of writing poetry and a critique of the student's own poems. Literary works are analyzed for form and writing techniques, but the emphasis of the course is on constructive criticism of the student's work by peers and by the instructor.
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