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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
An intense study of gathering, writing, and presenting the news. The course includes seminar meetings with reporters, news executives, news sources, and informed observers of news in Washington, D.C. The seminar provides a thorough background in the practices, problems, and promises of the profession. Students will learn the workings of large and small newspaper, and broadcast news bureaus. Prerequisite: Junior standing and approval of Texas Lutheran's Washington Semester Committee.
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4.00 Credits
A continuation of COM 441.
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4.00 Credits
This course helps the student gain accurate insight into journalism through "real world" experience. Participation is required in the daily operation of news and public affairs organizations. Internships are available at newspapers, newspaper bureaus, newsletters and bureaus for other publications, broadcast stations, and broadcast news bureaus. Academic requirements and office supervisor's evaluation determine final grading credit.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar devoted to exploring a range of topics within the diverse field of communication studies. Representative courses include: Visual Culture, Environmental Communication, Hate, The Rhetoric of Social Protest, Zombies, Writing About Food, Film Noir, Family Communication, The Comic Book, and Critical Pedagogy. May be taken multiple times for credit.
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3.00 Credits
This course teaches academic reading and writing skills, which are crucial to students' success and intellectual growth in all their courses. Students will learn to read literary and scholarly texts critically and carefully and to produce analytical arguments about those texts. They will refine their existing writing skills and address any problems they might have with standard English usage. Each section of COMP 131 pursues a different topic; recent offerings have focused on the problem of homelessness, images of scientific creativity, critical reading of fairy tales, and the recent crises in business ethics. All sections, however, do the same amount of work.
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3.00 Credits
This course continues to teach academic reading and writing skills. Students write a major research paper over the course of the semester focusing on a social problem and what should be done to alleviate it. Students learn research skills as well as the most effective rhetorical techniques to convince their audience of the importance of their chosen topic and the plausibility of their solution. Prerequisite: COMP 131.
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3.00 Credits
A basic introduction to computer programming in the C language. This course may not count toward the major or minor in computer science or the major in information systems.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to computer programming in Java including language syntax, control mechanisms, classes and objects, file input and output, and arrays. This is a first course for computer science majors. Prerequisite: MATH 133 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
As a sequel to CSCI 238, this course continues the study of Java with a strong emphasis on object-oriented design. Topics will include inheritance, exception handling, file I/O, Swing graphics, threads, recursion, and simple data structures. Prerequisite: CSCI 238.
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3.00 Credits
A survey course of the various areas of computer science. Topics will include representation of numbers and data, computer organization, basic programming concepts, operating systems, applications, and communication. This is a first course for computer science majors.
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