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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour Corequisite: ENGL 270 Students will practice journalistic skills learned in ENGL 270 by researching, interviewing sources, and writing basic news stories that are targeted at the University audience. Types of assignments will parallel topics being covered in ENGL 270 throughout the semester. Students will work with the instructor to establish story angles, interview preparation, writing methods, and deadlines. Students will spend a minimum of 50 hours working as a reporter for The Pulse.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 This course emphasizes clear technical writing directed to a specific audience and the development of definitions, descriptions, proposals, reports, and instructions.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 This course offers an examination of the theoretical basis of contemporary approaches to literature and the application of these approaches to selected works.
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 or permission of the English faculty The course introduces techniques for producing clear and graceful prose. The lessons emphasize revision skills for professionals whose workplace writing must be grammatically correct and stylistically effective.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 This course involves a descriptive study of the English language, focusing on the structure of contemporary English.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 272 This advanced writing course provides the opportunity for students to manage and complete one or more special projects in the area of technical communication. Examples of special projects include brochures, manuals, Web sites, reports, proposals, and instructions. Topics for study and practice include strategies for effectively managing and producing publications, analysis of rhetorical situations, persuasion, and document design.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: "B" or better in ENGL 106 or 107 or "C" or better in ENGL 202, 272, 305, or 3 This is a course in which students with basically solid writing ability can increase the sophistication of their writing and their appreciation of effective writing through analysis of writing styles, revision, and practice in a variety of forms of writing. This course will utilize microcomputer word processing.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisites: ENGL 272, previous computer experience Technical editing is a professional activity that allows students to analyze the ways editors work and to learn how information is evaluated before professional publications or distribution. The levels and types of editing, principles of hardcopy and softcopy editing, and methods of working with writers, editors, copy editors, and proofreaders to produce usable technical and scientific information are emphasized. Students work with samples of computer-based and printed information but also edit materials for professional writers.
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour Prerequisites: ENGL 210, 272, 290, 301 or permission of the instructor In this course, students will learn how to construct professional paper-based and electronic portfolios. Instruction in this course is intended to prepare technical communication majors for the portfolio review and to prepare technical communication majors, minors, and certificate holders for the job market. This course will be graded S/U.
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4.00 Credits
4 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 This course introduces strategies for effective communication on the Internet. Students will explore how rhetorical theory can be applied to online communication. Reading and writing assignments will acquaint students with methods for analyzing audiences and rhetorical situations, the role of ethos in electronic communication, invention strategies for online writing, arrangement and style of electronic texts, and resources for online research.
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