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3.00 Credits
Introduction to methods and materials for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing with an emphasis on language development across the curriculum. Helps students combine theory, research and practice into sound strategies for teaching English in middle, junior, and senior high schools. Students begin to develop a philosophy of secondary Language Arts teaching and learn how to plan instruction that is consistent with that philosophy and with various national, state, and school district standards and guidelines. The English segments of the Education Portfolio will also be initiated.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of literature and rhetoric in society. The course examines the tension between oral traditions and the emergence of a radical new technology called `writing? through close reading of primary texts such as The Odyssey, Greek drama, Aristotle?s Rhetoric and Poetics, Plato?s Phaedrus and Gorgias, and Longinus ?On the Sublime?.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to selected European and American literary masterpieces. Writers and works will be studied in their various contexts, the key literary periods and movements of the last four centuries: the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism and Modernism. Representative authors include Moliere, Swift, Goethe, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Flaubert, Ibsen, Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Borges, Ellison, and Marquez. Recommended as a general education course.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to viewing film as an art form, with some emphasis on technique, the history of film, and the relation between film and literature. Includes such films as Chaplin?s The Gold Rush, Keaton?s The General, Citizen Kane, The African Queen, Psycho, Cat Ballou, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to computer-aided publishing for print-media production. A workshop of simple to more complex publication projects that develop three essential roles: (1) the user of computer-aided publishing technology, (2) the publication designer, and (3) the manager of the publishing process. Pre-requisite: Interdisciplinary 150 and 151, or consent of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
This is a one-credit workshop on professional copyediting. This course helps students master copyediting skills, including the ability to edit others? writing for accuracy and completeness. Through a carefully sequenced series of case studies, students learn conventions and professional editing practices for the workplace.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the linguistic study of modern American English. Major topics include varieties of modern English in the US, the phonology of English and its relationship to spelling, and the syntax and morphology of modern English.
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1.00 Credits
Staff members of the Decaturian, Millikin?s student newspaper, receive credit for making a regular contribution to the paper for the semester, writing and performing other weekly duties for each issue. Participants create a portfolio reflecting on their development during the semester. This course can be repeated each semester for up to eight credits. Pre-requisite: EN 215 Newswriting 1 or consent of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
English 290, Sophomore Writing Portfolio, is a one-credit workshop required of all sophomore-level writing majors (including transfers). The primary goal of the course is to provide an opportunity for sophomores to review and reflect on their writing, editing, and publishing projects completed in their first two years of study. Over the course of the semester, students will work to discover their writing identities in relation to various audiences and to develop a strong sense of the expectations of the writing major and Millikin¿s writing concentrations. Students will develop a preliminary personal writing theory. Then, by the end of the course, each student will design, prepare and present a professional writing portfolio that demonstrates the knowledge they have acquired about what constitutes quality performance at Millikin and in the broader field.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is intended for students?majors and non-majors?interested in developing skills in community literacy programs. This course fosters links to the community, enables off-campus learning, and provides valuable instruction in working with programs such as Project READ.
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