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Students prepare and deliver short speeches, practicing how to choose, limit, and arrange what they say according to their audience and purpose, and to use visual aids and cite sources appropriately. (Shared course in VSC)
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This course focuses on the vampire in Western culture in order to ask the questions: "How and why does a culture create outsiders, exiles, and scapegoats?" "Why has the vampire become a figure that fires our imaginations, our fears, and our desires?" We will consider folklore, history, geography, literature, and film to study the cultural appeal of the vampire from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century,although the majority of the course will focus on the latter part of this chronology. We will also examine a selection of medical and psychological theories to gain insight into why the vampire has remained a figure of attraction (or revulsion) for centuries. This is a first-year seminar course and meets the First-Year Seminar requirement of the GECC.
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(available through EDP)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Photojournalism introduces students to the art and craft of visual narrative and provides the skills needed to produce effective images in a journalistic context. Students will learn the elements of a good news photo, which means developing an understanding of composition, content, and professional representation as they pertain to the demands of photojournalism. Students will also learn how photojournalists work and where they fit within the framework of news organizations, be it newspapers, magazines, or web. The class includes lectures, field assignments, collective critiques, and guest speakers.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of poetry, fiction, and drama, emphasizing key literary concepts and techniques, including plot, theme, character, point of view, and prosody. Meets Part II.A.1. of the GECC. (Shared course in VSC)
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3.00 Credits
Just as learning a foreign language requires a sensibility for rules and structure, effective communication using film and video requires an understanding of the filmic conventions that have grown up through the past 100 years of film history. Understanding these conventions is especially important as changes in computer technology bring the tools for video creation to the PC desktop. Students and workers of today will see unprecedented opportunity for video "expression" in both their academic and professional careers. This is a first-year seminar course and meets the First-Year Seminar requirement of the GECC.
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Probing basic questions of human nature and society, dystopian (the worst of all possible worlds) literature and film reveal anxieties that remain chillingly applicable today. We will explore such issues as the self, alienation, freedom, complicity, citizenship, love, faith, sex, technology, and happiness through a variety of novels and films. This is a first-year seminar course and meets the First-Year Seminar requirement of the GECC.
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3.00 Credits
This three-credit course is intended to replace the Writing Proficiency Portfolio, and is the means by which students who have failed the Writing Proficiency Exam may satisfy the last element of the Core Curriculum in writing. As with the Writing Proficiency Exam, the emphasis of the course is the writing of extemporaneous persuasive essays in edited standard American English, without help from instructors or software-based spelling and grammar aids. Students will be expected to write in-class essays that state a clear thesis and develop that central idea concretely, logically, and correctly. Class time will be spent reviewing and cultivating the wide range of skills necessary to prepare students for the writing of analytic essays with a minimum of errors and without assistance from the instructor: review of and quizzes over the rules of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and usage; editing passages and dictation exercises; peer teaching; and every week, in-class writing.
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This course teaches students the basic principles and fundamentals of literary magazine editing, production, and layout. This includes the fundamentals of editorial selection, the processing and managing of submissions, editorial discussions of submitted material, editorial correspondence (rejections and acceptances), ordering of the final manuscript, and preparation of the electronic manuscript for typesetting. Students will be responsible for producing and publishing an edition of the journal over the course of the semester. Students will act as editors and editorial assistants, reading, identifying, and selecting well-written manuscript submissions, as well as selecting art. Students will also work in both production and marketing. Students will develop skills in evaluating and reading copy, and editing prose and poetry. Also, students will evaluate art and photography; developing skill in layout and production. In addition, students will interview and write articles on contemporary writers. This will be primarily a lab course, academic in nature. (May be taken three times for credit.)
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3.00 Credits
The basics of news-gathering and news-writing are taught with an emphasis on writing for a daily newspaper. Students are expected to participate as staff members of the college newspaper by gathering news, writing stories, editing stories and designing pages. The course also covers some aspects of the history of journalism and aids students in developing news judgment and exercising journalistic ethics.
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