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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will enable students to acquire basic English skills; including: spelling, grammar, diction, sentence structure, and paragraphing. This training will prepare students for entry into Expository Writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with public speaking as a mode of communication. Students will learn to select relevant subjects, gather information, organize, present, and evaluate speeches. All students will participate in speech making exercises.
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3.00 Credits
Examines oral communication in terms of public speaking, oral interpretation, group discussion presentations and rhetoric. Students prepare and present informative, persuasive, and entertaining speeches. They study oral interpretation (dramatic reading) as an art form. Students work in groups on a final project presentation, as well as read and analyze great speeches of the world.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the use of language in social context as influenced by dimensions of culture, power, gender, generation, and social class. A large emphasis of the course is on the dynamics of switching speech styles, dialects, or languages and the micro-evolution of ways of speaking due to a variety of factors including the mass media. Non-verbal behavior including body posture, movement, and adornment will be included. We will also discuss options regarding the employment of diverse forms of speech, writing, dress, and behavior in schools.
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3.00 Credits
This course comprises two areas of study. First, it traces out the broad evolution and diversification of human language from the earliest history to the present age with particular emphasis on English. Second, it covers the psycholinguistic processes of language acquisition both of native languages and of second languages. Attention will also be paid to nonverbal communication as used in relation to speech, bilingualism, and the acquisition of sign language in deaf culture.
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3.00 Credits
Techniques, guidance and practice for effective, clear prose writing. The course provides an introduction to basic modes of writing, e.g., definition, cause and effect, compare-contrast, analogy and process analysis. It treats writing as a process of exploration and emphasizes the importance of re-writing.
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3.00 Credits
Refines critical reading and writing skills through analysis of the arguments and logic in the assigned readings and through writing effective and competent persuasion essays using various strategies and sources.
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3.00 Credits
The course is an introduction to the basic processes that underlie most creative writing, regardless of genre. It can serve as a first experience for those who have never tried to write a poem, fiction, or play, and as a vital reminder of the primal bases of the experience for those who have written. The hope is that you will discover which genre you prefer.
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4.50 Credits
This course presents a general overview of effective teaching strategies aimed at helping young children apply critical thinking skills and problem-solving processes while reading and writing. A variety of strategies, activities, and instructional methods for fiction and non-fiction texts will be shared, including specific ideas for meeting the instructional needs of struggling readers and writers.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of intercultural communication concepts, placing them in the context of a constructivist paradigm and relating them to other social science theory. Specific topics include cultural patterns of language use, perception, communication style, non-verbal behavior, and value orientations. The perspective is applied to understanding the processes of stereotyping, group prejudice, and intercultural adaptation.
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