CollegeTransfer.Net

Course Criteria

Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.

  • ENGL 349: Major Authors

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    In this course, students focus on the works of a single author or closely allied group of authors. In addition to studying the literature in depth, students examine the literary and social context which brought these authors to a place of prominence and the ways in which literary critics have approached their work.
    ShareENGL 349 - Major Authors
    Favorite

  • ENGL 350: Literary Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course focuses not on particular works of literature, but on methods of interpretation. Students read works of theory and learn to apply their theoretical perspectives to works of literature. In some semesters, the course might focus entirely on one branch of literary theory. In another, the course might more fully survey the history of literary theories, including new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, race relations, and Marxism, or might cover more thoroughly three or four very different moments of literary theory.
    ShareENGL 350 - Literary Theory
    Favorite

  • ENGL 351: Literature and Other Discourses

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Literature, by its very nature, incorporates a multitude of topics and discourses. This course focuses on the relationship between literature and other discourses, including such diverse expressive systems as law, medicine, foreign or imaginary languages, the visual arts, and the "language" ofanimals. The course features a focus on these alternative systems as topics within works of literature and as a structuring element that may radically affect the way literature is perceived by the reader. We also focus on the transformation of literary works into other forms of communication, such as films, television productions, works of art and other phenomena.
    ShareENGL 351 - Literature and Other Discourses
    Favorite

  • ENGL 352: Rhetorical Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course explores such aspects of classical rhetorical theory as invention, organization, style, adaptation to an audience, ethos, and image. Students identify these elements in examples of contemporary rhetoric ranging from speeches and rap songs to television, film, and print communications. Students learn to write and speak persuasively and to think critically about both contemporary and classical rhetoric.
    ShareENGL 352 - Rhetorical Theory
    Favorite
    Show comparable courses

  • ENGL 353: Rhetorical History and Traditions

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course examines the rhetorical traditions of a given social group (ethnic, religious, political, etc.) in historical and cultural contexts. Speeches, sermons, letters, essays, music, art, and other rhetorical forms are studied as means of persuasion and self-representation in a political world of difference.
    ShareENGL 353 - Rhetorical History and Traditions
    Favorite

  • ENGL 355: Advanced Professional Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course explores principles and advanced practices of professional communications and emphasizes the design and development of professionally applicable communication projects and products. Students have the opportunity to work in collaboration with administrative areas of the College to help design actual documentation, such as web-based documents, workplace documents (including letters and reports), and technical documents, including procedures, instructions, and specifications for use. In addition, students develop a portfolio of documentation and technologically based communications. The principles of context, audience analysis, document design and development, and assessment are applied with professional rigor. Students are expected to bring advanced skills in grammar, structure, and tone to their work in this course.
    ShareENGL 355 - Advanced Professional Writing
    Favorite

  • ENGL 356: Writing for a Living

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    Advertising, copywriting, roving reporter, novelist, technical writer: the profession of writing involves many needs, skills, disciplines, and genres. This course provides not only a critical overview of those needs, disciplines, skills and genres, but it also helps the student become aware of her or his writing strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it helps the student focus on particular areas of interest in the profession of writing. Much in-class writing, editing, and critiquing of students' own and others' writing isrequired. A portfolio of writing that encompasses and showcases a student's work and areas of interest completes the course.
    ShareENGL 356 - Writing for a Living
    Favorite

  • ENGL 358: Writing for Instructional Design

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    The ability to write instructional documents (e.g., manuals and guides) that readers can understand and follow is one of the most useful skills a technical writer can have. It requires knowledge of learning theory as well as writing ability. Introduces students to the principles of instructional design, including theories of adult learning as well as practical applications of those theories for specific learning situations. In addition to the study of theory and history of adult education, students fine-tune their technical writing skills in audience, needs, and task analysis; objective and goal development; material design and/or selection and development; and assessment.
    ShareENGL 358 - Writing for Instructional Design
    Favorite

  • ENGL 361: Writing for Websites

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    The rules for writing for websites are very different from those of traditional media. In this course, students study the importance of website content and how to construct that content as a piece of an image-based whole. Concepts such as keywords, linking, ranking, hypertext and design are studied using analysis of a variety of websites. Students also learn to craft their writing using principles of usability, audience analysis, and purpose, as well as how to evaluate the performance results of websites.
    ShareENGL 361 - Writing for Websites
    Favorite

  • ENGL 364: Writing for Alternative Media

    3.00 Credits
    Saint John Fisher University

    This course presents the history and logic of mainstream media-including ownership patterns, legislative influences, theoretical strategies, and political effects-and considers the contrastive character of "alternative" mediaStudents research a particular alternative information source and write for it.
    ShareENGL 364 - Writing for Alternative Media
    Favorite
To find college, community college and university courses by keyword, enter some or all of the following, then select the Search button.
(Type the name of a College, University, Exam, or Corporation)
(For example: Accounting, Psychology)
(For example: ACCT 101, where Course Prefix is ACCT, and Course Number is 101)
(For example: Introduction To Accounting)
(For example: Sine waves, Hemingway, or Impressionism)
Distance:
of
(For example: Find all institutions within 5 miles of the selected Zip Code)