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3.00 Credits
Course is a writing intensive course that approaches the study of persuasion from perspectives of English and psychology. Course covers the techniques of argumentation by reading treatises of classical, medieval, and Renaissance rhetoric, then studying contemporary rhetoric, including but not limited to speeches and congressional elections. Course also considers the psychological aspects of persuasion, including how attitudes are shaped, formed, and changed; principles of person perception; and the variables that affect compliance, obedience, and conformity. Course also explores the ethics of persuasion and the right usages of argumentation.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers students the opportunity to learn how to teach written composition. Provides students guidance in the creation of appropriate lesson plans and grading techniques. Instruction in teaching grammar is also included. Required of all English majors in the secondary education program; must be taken before student teaching.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers students the opportunity to learn how to teach literature to high school students. Investigates test-making, grading the theme, lesson planning, disciplines, and other units. Required of all English majors in the secondary education program; must be taken before student teaching.
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3.00 Credits
Writing for the Social Sciences is a course designed to help the student write clearly and effectively about issues, problems, and questions that interest social scientists. The course assumes that the student has background knowledge of at least one social science, but the focus of the course is on broad principles of writing: selecting and focusing a topic, accommodating writing to particular audiences, organizing information and developing a range of styles appropriate to various audiences, and rhetorical situations. Assignments include: position paper, letter of inquiry, interview, translation, evaluation, pamphlet, abstract, and annotated bibliography.
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3.00 Credits
Offers students on-the-job training under the supervision of qualified professionals at cooperating institutions and organizations. Requires 45 hours per academic credit.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar/small group designed for all English majors and open to all students interested in developing their prose and poetry. Students are required to submit copy for class critiques and participate in discussion. Occasionally books on the art of creative writing are discussed. In such a non-threatening environment, each student is the teacher as well as the writer and is given a chance to exercise imagination. This course is recommended for English/Secondary Education majors, since creative writing units are part of many secondary education programs.
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3.00 Credits
The course offers practice in writing documents common to business and technical fields, including such documents as memos, letters, technical descriptions, proposals, reports, and the like. Emphasis is on content, form, and style.
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3.00 Credits
Refines students' abilities to write persuasive arguments for particular rhetorical contexts. The course focuses on strategies of research, invention, arrangement, and style.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on developing writing abilities while critically examining the cultural communities to which we belong, especially in terms of popular culture power dynamics and issues of social justice. The cultural texts students will analyze through writing include various parts of everyday life such as cars, celebrities, and coffee shops.
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3.00 Credits
Course explores the nature of feminist writing through reading and writing assignments. Course will focus on feminist revisions of well-known texts, practical documents that work for political or social change, and the implications of traditional writing conventions.
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