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3.00 Credits
COMM 103 provides students the opportunity to strengthen their writing and their overall communication abilities in the academic disciplines in preparation for more advanced work. In this course, students will learn to develop essays of various types, construct logical arguments, identify argumentative patterns and fallacies, use online research tools, revise and edit papers according to the conventions of formal written English, deliver academic presentations, and use standard documentation systems, such as MLA AND APA. Enrollment is open to all Rice undergraduates.
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3.00 Credits
Students will develop writing skills by maintaining a blog, generating Webpage content, and using social media. We will also produce video and audio content while remaining aware of how the form of the work impacts its content. Open to students who have successfully completed the Composition Exam or COMM 103.
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3.00 Credits
Technical Communication serves students who are preparing for careers that require the creation of technical documents and presentations. The course teaches the communication strategies and skills that scientist, engineers, and others in technical fields need. Open to all students who have successfully completed the Composition Exam or COMM 103.
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3.00 Credits
Leadership Communication emphasizes the core communication capabilities needed to be an effective leader. The course will provide instruction and practice in written and spoken individual and team communication and allow students the opportunity to develop the important interpersonal skills they need to communicate in diverse professional contexts and across different cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Applied Leadership is a leadership skills development course focused on practical applications in negotiation, organizational communication, and consulting. The course explores power, influence, and persuasion in organizational contexts and allows students to practice advanced leadership skills, such as conflict management, change management, and negotiation, with an emphasis on persuading and motivating others. Course work assumes competence in fundamental communication skills, such as are developed in LEAD 321 - Leadership Communication, BUSI 296 - Business Communication, or one of the HUMA or other COMM courses focused on writing and speaking. Students completing this course will be prepared to exercise strategic influence from any point in an organizational hierarchy, whether interacting with supervisors, peers, or subordinates.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to organizing, analyzing, and presenting information using databases and spreadsheets. no programming involved, and no computing background expected.
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4.00 Credits
Algorithms are the engines of a great majority of systems, natural and artificial alike. This course introduces algorithmic thinking as a discipline for reasoning about systems, taming their complexities, and elucidating their properties. Algorithmic techniques, along with their correctness and efficiency, will be taught through reasoning about systems of interactions, such as markets, that are ubiquitous in our highly connected world.
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4.00 Credits
How to systematically design programs in functional and object-oriented languages. Includes inductive data definitions, data-directed program design, test-driven software development, semantic reduction rules, recursive problem decomposition, procedural abstraction, functions as values, tail recursion and loops, object-oriented design patterns, algorithmic efficiency, programming in Scheme and Java.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces computer systems from the programmer's perspective. Topics include data representation, the compilation process, and system-level programming concepts such as interrupts and concurrency.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Theoretical and experimental investigations under staff direction.
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