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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with a review of basics (grammar, outline, style, purpose, etc.) the course will focus on the development of individual student's writing skills from writing about the self through expository and persuasive writing. Through assignments and in-class exercises, the elements of basic communication common to both academic and professional writing will be examined. Revisions and development will be emphasized. There will be limited lecture and a great deal of discussion, practice and feedback in both dyad and workshop formats. The overall goal is to improve each student's writing skills regardless of initial level of sophistication.
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Research, analysis, and synthesis of ideas are explored in this expanded writing course. Students will conduct selfdirected primary and secondary research on various writing topics and learn a variety of referencing formats. Written argumentation, validity, and truth are explored in the critical essay, alongside classical rhetorical styles and writing mechanics. Prerequisite: COM310 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course in writing narrative prose-short stories, novel segments, or journalistic explorations-with the goal of developing a unique personal writing voice. Students will read and discuss brief pieces of published fiction that model specific writing techniques, and they will discuss examples of student writing to identify genial turns of phrase and to offer guidance where appropriate. The course will also consist of occasional in-class or athome exercises from the course test: prompts designed to juice the creative muse and to provide enjoyable practice in certain narrative elements.
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This course introduces students to the aesthetics of film. The class explores the visual grammar of cinema, studying how film is created and how it functions, both at an historical and critical level. Throughout the course students have the opportunity to analyze several films in depth, and be exposed to a variety of stylistic influences ranging from the Hollywood tradition to the International Art Cinema.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the nonfiction genre, which celebrates the author's subjective experience and impressions. Studied forms include personal (lyrical) essays, memoirs, travel and nature articles, profiles, interviews, narrative and human interest stories, and literary journalism. Using Classical examples, students will examine the unique role of creative non-fiction in literary discourse and public debate.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to work on creative writing projects of their own choosing in a supportive, nonjudgmental atmosphere. A goal of the course is to foster confidence in one's creative center. Through class exercises students learn to release fears of expressing themselves in writing. Students also explore how they have been affected by authors that have deeply influenced them. Students develop creative writing skills as well as belief in their ability to write.
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3.00 Credits
History, theory, research, and issues surrounding mass communication are the subject of this course, which focuses on a critical survey of radio, television, newspapers, and magazines as instruments of mass communications. The behavior of audiences of the mass media is analyzed. Emphasis is on persuasions, theory, media effects and related issues such as ethics, violence, and minorities.
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3.00 Credits
This experience-based course in public speaking includes the preparation and presentation of a number of speeches. Topics include research, outlining, support of ideas, ethos, audience analysis, style and delivery. Students learn to evaluate critically their own speaking and that of others. Emphasis is on performance and improvement of targeted speech behaviors.
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3.00 Credits
Technology has compressed the world into a global village composed of myriad international and nondominant domestic cultures. Communication between cultures is essential but complicated by different contexts, values, expectations, and perceptions. This course examines different theoretical and practical approaches to the complexities of both verbal and nonverbal communication across cultures. Communication styles of various nationalities are examined along with such issues as dominance, gender, religion, prejudice, time, distance, and silence.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the study of interpersonal communication from a theoretical perspective. Concepts related to perception are explored as applied to self, to others, and to relationships. Other topics include verbal and non-verbal means of communication, listening, and the presentation of self. The development and dissolution of relationships, relational intricacies, competence, and enhancement are also explored along with negotiation and conflict.
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