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4.00 Credits
An intermediate-level investigation of and practice with strategies of interpreting literary texts. Topics include multiple vs. single interpretations; the problem of subtexts, political and psychological; and the relation among history, society and the author. Readings are drawn from fiction, poetry, drama and essays on critical theory. Required for English majors. Prerequisite: EN199 or its equivalent.
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1.00 Credits
This course helps Arcadia University Writing Center consultants to develop the skills and understanding of writing center issues necessary to be effective tutors. Every semester will address a different theoretical perspective or issue, including writing across the curriculum, effective structures of consultations, the rhetoric of student papers and tutoring, conversation models, research writing, and cultural issues in tutoring. Prerequisite: students must be employed at the Arcadia University Writing Center as writing consultants.
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4.00 Credits
The course offers a practical introduction to the consumer magazine industry, and aims to equip students with the basic skills and understanding necessary to pursue a full-time or freelance career as a magazine writer or editor. Students will examine all forms of magazine writing from short front-of-book items to department stories to features, perform critical analyses of individual magazines, learn how to develop story ideas into compelling magazine prose, and write effective query or pitch letters. In addition to an overview of the industry, the course provides an understanding of the basic structure of magazines, the different types of stories magazines publish, and the economic forces driving magazine publishing today.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of technical documents for various careers. Covers catalogue descriptions, descriptions of mechanisms, instructional and procedural manuals, bids, requests for bids, proposals, reports, memos and letters responding to customer inquiries. Emphasizes preparation of effectively written documents for various audiences (from expert to non-expert) and purposes. Presents the integration of graphic and copy elements in well-structured and designed documents. Includes individual and group assignments from a problem-solving approach. Requires portfolios of work in-progress and two spoken presentations. Prerequisite: junior standing or above. Offered in 2004 and alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive writing workshop giving students an overview of the health care communications field. Students will become familiar with research tools (including online databases), interview techniques, and the integration of graphics to enhance text. They will also develop an understanding of audience and an appreciation for the knowledge base of the intended reader. This course will cover the writing and editing of peer-reviewed technical journal articles as well as marketing materials, press releases, newsletter articles, feature and advertising copy. Prerequisites: Two writing classes above EN 101-102, or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Learn the set-up of the newsroom; practice the conventions of news and news features, such as profiles and issue-oriented stories. Field work includes coverage of some live events with emphasis on writing the more complex story, with style, color, flair and substance. Prerequisite: CM/EN217 or another course in journalism, or experience in public relations/advanced writing; or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
A selective study and appreciation of texts from Western antiquity and the Middle Ages that remain influential and alive in our own time. These texts are considered within the cultural contexts from which they sprang and to which they helped give definitive shape. Typically, readings are drawn from the plays and epics of ancient Greece; great Roman authors such as Virgil, Augustine, and Boethius: and such medieval works, genres and authors as Beowulf, The Arthurian romances, Dante and Chaucer. Prerequisite: junior standing or above.
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4.00 Credits
A selective study and appreciation of texts from 16th, 17th, and 18th century European literature with a focus on the English tradition and a consideration of the historical contexts of the works studied. Readings are drawn from Renaissance essayists and novelists such as Thomas More, Montaigne, Bacon and Cervantes; Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists such as Jonson, Shakespeare, and Webster; English lyric poets such as Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Marvell; major works from later 17th century and Restoration authors such as Milton, Dryden and Congreve; and major figures from the 18th century like Pope, Swift, Voltaire, Defoe, Fielding and Sterne. Prerequisite: junior standing or above.
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4.00 Credits
Critical reading of major British works of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries in the context of cultural history. Readings include works by such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Bronte, George Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and others.Prerequisite: junior standing or above.
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4.00 Credits
Critical reading of major American works of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, approaching the texts as products of a specific place and historical experience. Authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Twain, Dickinson, James, Faulkner, Miller, Pynchon, and Morrison and others. Prerequisite: junior standing or above.
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