|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
What makes the English language so difficult Where do our words come from Why does Old English look like a foreign language This course surveys the development of the English language from its beginning to the present to answer such questions as these. Designed for anyone who is curious about the English language or the nature of language change. May be taken as a professional elective for communication majors. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor. May also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
-
4.00 Credits
This course offers a diverse range of written assignments, including personal narrative, research and analysis, oral histories, documentary studies, and literary interpretation. Accompanying the written assignments are selected readings on the life adventures of a famous physicist, investigations into significant historical events, documentaries, photography, oral histories, holocaust survivor memoirs in comic book form, short stories, and poems. The course focuses on the social context of language, on issues of representation, and how language shapes our understanding of reality. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor and the science writing minor. May also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
-
4.00 Credits
An exploration of the techniques of writing poetry in both open and closed forms. Professional elective for technical communication major. Part of the creative writing minor and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
-
4.00 Credits
An exploration of some of the most important contemporary techniques of prose fiction in the short story form. May be taken as a professional elective for communication majors; part of the creative writing minor; and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
-
4.00 Credits
This course is for students who have completed creative writing and want to explore in depth a literary genre or add to their skills as a creative writer whether interested in poetry, fiction, non-fiction or a combination of genres. The focus will be on the creation of a significant piece of writing for a final project. In addition to planning and producing a single sustained creative work, students will complete other exercises and assignments in order to experiment with other genres. Through reading and discussion, they will see their own writing in a larger context. Weekly class critiques will provide the opportunity to give and receive helpful feedback. May be taken as a professional elective for communication majors; part of the creative writing minor; and may also be taken as an elective (0502-227 or equivalent, 0502-451 or 452 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
-
4.00 Credits
"To know oneself better through others and to know others better through oneself" is one writer's view of the ultimate aim of education and is an appropriatedescription of the intent of this course on focused autobiographical writings and modest oral history projects. This course emphasizes the reflective process of memoir writing, moving from short exercises into longer, peerreviewed papers, as well as the constructive aspect of oral history through listening, transcribing, and editing. Students read from culturally diverse memoirs and oral histories, study theoretical concepts of narrative and oral history, view photographs and films. Our purpose is to expand, through writing, an awareness of the complexities of such old human practices as telling and listening to stories about our lives. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor and may be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
-
4.00 Credits
In this course students will read the writing of the most influential scientistsrhetoricians who have had to persuade both professional and public audiences of the validity of their science. We will trace the history of the "scientific paper" from the Royal Society to contemporary journals and look at students'favorite figures and texts in the history of science, ongoing controversies in contemporary scientific debates, and the representation of science in popular culture. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor and the science writing minor. It may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
-
4.00 Credits
This course will examine varieties of language that result from regional and social factors (gender, race, ethnicity and class). We will also explore the ways in which language is tied to our identity and marks our place in society as a result of such variation. Focus topics will include dialects of American English, language and gender, bi/multilingualism, attitudes towards nonstandard and standard varieties of English, and language policy (e.g. the movement to declare English our national language, Ebonics). Part of the writing studies concentration and minor. May also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
-
4.00 Credits
This course is an intensive workshop in writing creative non-fiction. Students' ongoing work taken through several drafts will be discussed in weekly clinics which will not only move the work forward, but teach each participant to become a better editor. With a continual practice of writing and reading, students will explore the many possible formats of non-fiction. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor; the creative writing minor and the science writing minor. It may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
-
4.00 Credits
This course is dedicated to students learning how to reinterpret scientific principles and discoveries for readers of varying expertise. Students will practice reading specialized scientific writing in their own disciplines and in unfamiliar fields, and make sense of it for non-specialist readers. Students will also read popular science writing, and analyze it to learn what works and what doesn't work for particular audiences. In this course, students will gain fluency communicating specialized scientific knowledge to a non-specialist audience; critically read science writing in fields other than their own; analyze what kinds of information, stylistics, and formatting are appropriate for different audiences; understand what is at stake and for whom when scientific information travels; incorporate ethical considerations about scientific information when reading and writing; see science writing as a recursive process; and understand the importance of style in scientific writing; and develop a style of their own. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor and the science writing minor. It may also be taken as an elective (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|