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  • 76 307: Advanced Editing and Publishing

    3.00 - 18.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 76 308: Creative Writing Internship in Publishing

    3.00 - 18.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 76 310: The Quest for Identity

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 76 314: 19th Century British Literary and Cultural Studies

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the department for current offerings. Example, Fall 2011: Changes in industry and education in the Victorian period affected women deeply; many women began to actively explore their options outside of the domestic arena, seeking access to education, careers, contraception, voting and alternatives to marriage and motherhood. These early feminists became known as ?New Women,? and from around 1870 to 1900, discourse by and about them flourishes. The New Woman both exhilarated and terrified. Was she a signifier of England's progressive health or was she a monstrous harbinger of the decline of proper English society? How did she both redefine and entrench gender ideology in the late-nineteenth century? We will read short stories, journalistic articles and several novels that address the New Woman, including Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins, Grant Allen's The Typewriter Girl and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Cultural narratives about gender, sexuality, science, industry and empire will inform our discussions.
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  • 76 315: 19th Century American Literature

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    These days, it's pretty easy to get to Walden Pond. It's right off route 126 South (not too far from Concord) and there is a nice little farm stand there called the Farm at Walden Woods, where you can get corn and raspberries and freshly baked bread. It's a lot more crowded, now, especially in the summer, when families bring their kids for swimming and picnicking on the sandy shores of the pond, underneath the summer-sweet smell of pine trees and juniper berries. In this class we'll go back in time to the Walden Pond of Thoreau's time, with a unit on the "Green Nineteen" -writers and thinkers who considered the relationship between human civilization and the American wilderness (Thoreau, Emerson, Poe and Hawthorne). In our next unit, "Scribbling Women," we'll take up the most popular literature of the century, which was virtually all written by women (Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Warner, Wide, Wide World, Alcott, Little Women). In our third unit, "Slavery and Freedom," we will read slave narratives as well as those folk tales that constructed slavery as a nostalgic, almost mythical past (Douglas, The Slave Narrative of Frederick Douglas, Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chesnutt, The Conjure Tales.) Finally we will read the two most important poets of the 19th century, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
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  • 76 318: Communicating in the Global Marketplace

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    In this day and age, some of the most exciting employment opportunities are with multinational and international corporations and non-profits. But are you prepared for the challenge of working with professionals from all over the world? Even as more people around the globe learn English, specific cultural values, beliefs, and assumptions continue to influence the way in which they communicate. Often, behind a foreign accent, we encounter an entirely different worldview. The same word or phrase in English might actually carry very distinct connotations for someone whose native language is French, German, Russian, or Japanese. Can we learn to anticipate, understand, and become sensitive to these connotations? How can we mend potential miscommunications that might arise due to these conceptual differences? This course is designed as an introduction to international professional communication. We will talk about the way in which culture influences communication, about the job of translators and interpreters, and about specific communicative norms for the global marketplace. We will look at many concrete example of communication in the international arena, acting as problem- solvers and communication consultants who are focused on understanding and designing plans of action for navigating communicative obstacles. We will also have the opportunity to speak with professionals who are experienced in the field, and we will cover case studies ranging from corporate business to global activism and advocacy. The requirements for this course include a take-home exam, a short paper, and a final project.
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  • 76 319: Environmental Rhetoric

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    How people think and talk about the environment matters; it reveals what they value and shapes what they do. We will look at how competing discourses define man's relationship to the natural world, frame environmental problems, and argue for public action. As we compare the environmental rhetoric of naturalists, scientists, policy makers, and activists, we will trace an American history that has managed to combine mystical celebration with militant critique, and scientific research with public debate. Equally important, this course will prepare you to act as a rhetorical consultant and writer, studying how writers communicate the three ?Rs? of environmental rhetoric: relationship with nature, the presence of risk, and the need for response.
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  • 76 321: Genre Studies

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the department for current offerings. Example, Fall 2011: Poe defined the short story as something that could be read at one sitting. While simple enough, the definition suggests a concern with concentrated form and unified artistic effect. in a sense, the short story has been around as long as people have been telling each other tales, to be sure, but as a literary form it came into its own in modern times, during the 19th century and it continues to be produced in considerable numbers. For many readers one of the great features is the one Poe pointed to: it is short. People who have never finished a novel by Henry James must be legion. So we can experience something with genuine literary merit, in an accessible form. Concentration, of course, can bring issues of comprehension and often short stories can seem puzzling or incomplete to the average reader. This class will attempt to develop our abilities to read with care and attention--and feeling--in order to make us better readers of any artistic text. The challenges of the short form turn out to be excellent opportunities for learning a lot, in a little space. We?ll make use of several inexpensive anthologies, and look at one or two central writers (Hemingway, for example) in more depth. The class will require the writing of a few short papers, engaging in online discussions on Blackboard, and three in class tests.
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  • 76 324: Topics in Rhetoric

    9.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    In this course, we will study communication strategies of effective leaders -- people who seek to promote change in various professional, political, or cultural contexts. The main goals of the course are to understand rhetorical challenges that leaders face in different fields, to examine the language they use, and to learn (through theory, analysis, and practice) the most effective rhetorical strategies that can empower a leader. By drawing on the literature from management, organizational communication, psychology, and rhetoric, we will address a set of questions that include: (1) What makes an effective leader? (2) How do leaders use language and for what purposes? (3) What is the relationship between effective thinking (such as strategic thinking) and effective communication? (4) What rhetorical strategies can be most useful to leaders to achieve their goals? (5) What is the role of creativity in leadership, and especially in the leader's use of language? We will not only mine the literature on leadership for theoretical insights on rhetoric, but also analyze some authors -- undeniable leaders in their fields (such as Albert Einstein; Winston Churchill; Peter Drucker, "the inventor of management;" or Malcolm Gladwell, a best-selling author) -- as practitioners of the rhetoric of leadership. We will approach such highly influential speakers and writers as exemplars and try to tease out some of their "internal" rhetorical proficiencies at creating messages that promote change. In their individual projects, the students will have a chance to improve their language skills as effective leaders.
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  • 76 325: Topics in Rhetoric

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics will vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the department for current offerings. Fall 2011: What do we mean when we say that someone has ?twisted? our words, or that our words have been ?taken out of context?? Why is Martin Luther King Jr. best remembered for saying, ?I have a dream,? and not for saying, ?War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity?? What are political ?talking points? and how are they perpetuated? How does a claim (unfounded or not) become a fact? How does a fact become a myth? These are just some of the questions that we will consider. More specifically, this is a course in how meaning changes as texts created in one context and for specific purposes are repeated, cited, and used in other contexts and for other purposes, sometimes related and relevant, sometimes not. More technically, we?ll be focusing on the rhetorical nature of intertextual discourse. Our goal will be to examine the ways that people of all kinds?including politicians, journalists, and scientists'strategically draw upon and transform the statements, arguments, and evidence of other people to promote their own viewpoints or purposes. We will begin by investigating scholarship that views language as an extended conversation in which people struggle to have their own voices heard, and other voices countered or even suppressed. Later, we will survey a number of studies that suggest how individuals and organizations recontextualize and reinterpret prior discourse for persuasive ends. (See Dept. for full description)
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