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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): WEB-320 OR SWE-130 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1), Online (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Web sites have unique usability issues. Users are drawn from a widely disparate, critical population and satisfaction has to occur with 7 seconds. Building usable, effective web sites that are human-centered and attractive requires an innovative approach coupled with a stable and usable toolset. This course teaches students about the issues faced by web designers and the main tools available for building in usability as well as assessing it. The issues surrounding the web as a public space for disabled access is also addressed.
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 1 Prerequisite(s): None Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Literary Magazine is a one credit course that provides a setting where students can experience the practical elements of assembling a magazine devoted to publishing poetry, fiction, creative essays, plays, photography, and visual art. Projects will be assigned in soliciting work, the selection of material, editorial correspondence, copy editing, and distribution. Students may take this one credit elective twice.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): ENG-111 OR COR-115 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (2) Summer 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (2) Description: Introduction to Creative Writing explores techniques used by poets and writers in their crafts. Students will analyze examples of published works and will produce portfolios of original works. Workshop activity is required; students must share their work with the entire class.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): ENG-111or COR-115 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Summer 2008: Online (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Creative nonfiction has recently experienced a rise in popularity, and the ability to write in this genre will increase a student's chances of publishing in today's marketplace. While the course involves reading and writing creative nonfiction only, the methodology that students learn can be applied to almost any form of writing including essays for magazines and websites, commentaries for radio and television, scripts for video and film, descriptions for travel and nature writing, and even to the crafting of novels and short story collections. In today's globally conscious world, the ability of the creative nonfiction writer to use a specific story or incident to illuminate a universal human experience is more appreciated than ever.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): ENG-111 OR COR-115 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (2) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (2) Description: This course introduces students to newspaper, magazine and online reporting with hands-on experience in gathering news, conducting research, investigating, and interviewing. Using the inverted pyramid and other writing strategies, students will produce, edit and analyze basic news, sports and feature stories. Students will apply journalistic writing skills for newspaper, magazine and online formats. Working in teams and alone, students learn to find, write and edit basic print stories on deadline using the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Guide. Students also examine the role and responsibilities of the press and study the legal and ethical issues facing journalists.
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 1 Prerequisite(s): WRT-110 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Literary Magazine is a one credit course that provides a setting where students can experience the practical elements of assembling a magazine devoted to publishing poetry, fiction, creative essays, plays, photography, and visual art. Projects will be assigned in soliciting work, the selection of material, editorial correspondence, copy editing, and distribution. Students may take this one credit elective twice.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): WRT-120 or WRT-137 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Summer 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: The course provides an intensive introduction to screenwriting. Presented as a seminar and writing workshop, the class reads and discusses short and feature-length screenplays, including their own works-in-progress, as well as comparing the screenwriting of professionals to the films those scripts became. Writing one short and one feature-length screenplay leads students to integrate theory and practice as they explore the viability of story ideas in the film medium, character development, conflict, dialogue writing, dramatic structure, and industry standards for script formatting.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): ENG-111 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Summer 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: Focuses on the style, tone and organization of business communications--oral presentations, memoranda, letters and reports--with attention to the process of drafting through editing.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): ENG-112; Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Fall 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: This course presents basic techniques for effective writing and interpretation of technical materials. Students will gain skill in communicating technical information by producing illustrated instructions, describing mechanisms, using visual aids, and examining and writing formal technical reports.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisite(s): ENG-310 or ENG-112 Currently offered: Spring 2008: Day/Evening (1) Description: This course introduces students to research methods, project management principles, and document production processes needed for effective practice in professional writing contexts. Grant writing, annual reports, strategic plans, proposals and e-writing are some of the genres students learn to master.
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