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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: THD 08135 This course offers students a working knowledge of the body from the standpoint of dynamics, spatial orientation, kinesthetic awareness, and alignment principles. It focuses on systems of movement description and analysis and introduces corrective measures to deal with movement habits and patterns that interfere with body performance. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CMS 01300, COMP 01112, and 60 credits required This course presents the rhetorical, social, and practical dimensions of writing and researching in networked contexts. Students focus both on the roles an individual creates and maintains when writing for different cybermedia formats and the kinds of conventions that exist in systems like the World Wide Web, listservs, e-mail, and hypertext. A web-based research project in a concentrated area of writing for a particular electronic community demonstrates students' ability to communicate on line.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to both the field of technical writing and the uses of technical writing within a variety of professions. Students will learn how technical writers use document design strategies based on rhetorical principles to respond to communication challenges. Through practice with a variety of genres, students will gain experience with audience analysis, communication ethics, research, collaboration, professional style, and editing. The course culminates in a writing project based on a professional, academic, or community issue of the student's choosing. Students are encouraged, and will be assisted, in designing projects that reflect their professional interests.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01112 and 45 credits required Emphasizing prose style, this course builds upon the skills of organization and development covered in College Composition I and II. It gives special attention to tone, diction, sentence structure, audience, and ultimately, to the evolution of a personal voice. Students write frequently, receive instructor and peer feedback, and learn to analyze and edit both professional and non-professional essays.
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3.00 Credits
Under professional supervision in the field, students practice theories and skills learned in the classroom.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 75 credits required Writing for the Workplace gives students practice in the writing activities common to most careers. Assignments include resumes and cover letters, field and progress reports, abstracts of professional articles, and proposals. Students can also expect to deliver one or two brief oral presentations. The course is restricted to juniors and seniors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01112 and 45 credits required The Writer's Mind examines the principles and practices that guide how writers think and develop creative, expository, and argumentative writing. This class addresses the connections and interdependencies between thinking about a complex topic and writing intelligibly. Students will examine how writing errors often reflect thinking errors, how writer's block develops, as well as strategies to overcome it, how metaphor functions in writing to structure thought, and how a writer's thought process matures over time.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01112 and 75 credits required This course examines issues and methods of assessing writing. Students will explore a wide variety of tools used to evaluate writing, such as portfolio and holistic assessment, and they will discuss the validity and reliability of many assessment models.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: COMP 01112 and 45 credits required This course provides Management students with extensive practice in preparing the written materials required by common management activities. Assignments include preparing the written materials required for OSHA compliance, in disciplinary situations, in alleged sexual harassment situations, and customer service. Other specific topical assignments will be developed to respond to changes in the education needed by Management students.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with an opportunity to work independently on specialized topics under the guidance of a faculty member. Generally, this course can not be substituted for any course offered by a department in the College of Communication. Permissions are needed from the Department Chair and the Dean.
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