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3.00 Credits
An advanced seminar focusing on a major aspect of twentieth and/or twenty-first century American literature.
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3.00 Credits
Arguably the best American literary talent of the first half of the twentieth century, William Faulkner examined the South as a once-defeated nation and the effects of the legacy of slavery and continuing racism on the psychology, society, and economics of the region. His storytelling strategies are complex and challenging, becoming an inseparable part of the tales he tells and demanding constant re-evaluation and awareness by the reader. We will consider the major novels - THE SOUND AND THE FURY, AS I LAY DYING, LIGHT IN AUGUST, ABASALOM, ABSALOM, and THE HAMLET - as well as the novelistic GO DOWN, MOSES - and a number of his most accomplished short stories and other texts.
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3.00 Credits
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948) led flamboyant public lives during the 1920s that came to be identified in the popular mind with the moral, alcoholic, and sexual excesses of that era. Their lives, in turn, adeptly transmuted into fiction, became in large part the raw material of their novels, essays, and short stories. The principal focus of the course will be on Scott's novels and short stories, including his two masterpieces THE GREAT GATSBY (1925) and TENDER IS THE NIGHT (1934), his early novels (THIS SIDE OF PARADISE (1920) and THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED (1922)), his unfinished THE LAST TYCOON (1941), and his most compelling short stories.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced writing workshop designed to develop polished and effective writing. Students will address a variety of audiences, situations, and needs through critical analysis of their own and others' written texts. Research, style, voice, and genre awareness are emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
This course readies students for the kinds and purposes of writing they will do as they advance in their business careers. Good writing is a means to effective management and profitable customer relations. In studying the theory and practice of writing in the business environment, students will develop strategies for adjusting content, style, design, and delivery method to different rhetorical contexts. This course often operates as a writing intensive workshop where student participation is necessary and vital. This course is not a review of basic composition or grammar skills, although students will learn techniques for successful revising and editing.
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3.00 Credits
This course readies students for the kinds and purposes of professional writing they will do in their professional careers in technology, science, and engineering. Writing in these fields supports design processes, research studies, problem solving, and business transactions. In studying the theory and practice of writing in specialized environments, students will develop strategies for adjusting content, style, design, and delivery method to different rhetorical contexts. This course often operates as a writing intensive workshop where student participation is necessary and vital. This course is not a review of basic composition or grammar skills, although students will learn techniques for successful revising and editing.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn strategies used in several of the many kinds of environmental writing that is published online and in print (or used in media productions) so that they can write for general and specialized audiences on environmental subjects. The course may include components of writing in the areas of health communication and risk communication. Class readings and discussion will focus on audience, argument, style, and conventions as well as on different genres of environmental writing. Students will study differing philosophical ideas about the environment and human relations to the natural world, and how these color different approaches taken by writers on environmental issues.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn a range of strategies used in biomedical writing so that they can write for general and specialized audiences on biomedical subjects. Class readings and discussions will focus on audience, argument, style, and conventions, as well as different genres of biomedical writing. Students will also critically examine how biomedical research is adapted for lay audiences and how popular discourse changes our understanding of the practices of science, medicine, health, and the social consequences of this discourse.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the theoretical foundations of rhetoric and professional writing as a discipline, as a process, and as a product. Understanding the complexity of the discipline and the theories that inform it will be an important aspect of the course.
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1.00 Credits
Students will maintain a professional portfolio and learn to use it effectively to obtain an internship and eventually to obtain employment after graduation.
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