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  • 76 503: Professional Writing Project

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    In this hands-on project course taught by Tom O?Boyle, a veteran newspaper exec at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (who also teaches the Spring Advanced Journalism course), you?ll work directly with top PG decision makers in new media to analyze and propose solutions to address a specific audience and information gap for which the PG can develop a new digital media solution. The exact nature of the project is not yet finalized, but it will resemble (and perhaps follow on) a similar project conducted in Fall 2010 in which 4 CMU students ? 3 MAPW's + an undergrad - mapped out a product concept for a mobile app (PG Arch, currently under development), that will provide information (including real-time bus updates) to university-aged users in the Oakland area. One possible project is the addition of social-media functions (or other useful features) to expand the relevance and utility of PG Arch. Another possible project is an analysis of under-represented audience segments (such as women) on the www.post-gazette.com web site. Early work in the course will most likely involve researching and refining the project idea. The course is by permission only, and 76-487 (Web Design) is a prerequisite; familiarity with mobile apps, social media, smartphones and GPS is preferred but not required. Enrollment is limited to 6 students. Those interested should contact Tom O?Boyle directly at toboyle@andrew.cmu.edu or toboyle@post-gazette.com; or Karen Schnakenberg at krs@cmu.edu.
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  • 76 508: So You Want To Make a Movie

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 76 511: Senior Project

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Seniors in all four majors within the English Department may, with faculty permission and sponsorship, design and complete an original, student-planned Senior Project. Creative Writing majors may work on a book-length manuscript in fiction or poetry. Students in all majors within the Department may also, with the permission of a faculty advisor who will supervise and sponsor the project, develop and complete senior projects that involve either traditional academic research or investigations of problems in professional or technical communication.
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  • 79 050: Study Abroad

    0.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    No course description available.
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  • 79 051: Study Abroad

    0.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 79 104: Global Histories

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    People throughout the world are caught up in multiple processes that cross national boundaries, link distant regions, and in many cases, encompass the planet as a whole. These transnational, transregional, and planetary processes are the latest incarnations of interactions that have been developing for a long time. If you want to understand the world today and where it might be heading, it's crucial not only to think globally but also to relate current global processes to comparable processes in the past. This course offers you several options for expanding on the skills you need to think globally through the medium of history. As their descriptions indicate, the differently titled lectures vary in their subject matter and the particular pathways they provide for exploring global processes. However, they all involve a mix of lectures and recitations; they have similar amounts of reading; and they all use essay-writing as the primary medium of assessment. Most importantly, they all strive to help you: (1) identify and assess the varied ways that scholars interpret global interactions as they unfold through time; (2) bring together insights from diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences to illuminate the development of global connections, differences, and divisions; (3) read, listen, discuss, take notes, and craft written arguments supported by different kinds of evidence; and, above all, (4) use explorations in global histories to engage the workings of the world today and in the future. See the H SS General Education Website ?First Year Experience? for descriptions of specific sections: http://www.hss.cmu.edu/gened/.
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  • 79 145: History of Slavery in the US

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 79 165: Freshman Seminar: The Historian as Detective and Storyteller

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Most history courses engage students in what is essentially the consumption of the end-products of other historians' work. The centerpiece of such histories is the presentation of a carefully selected and defined research problem or agenda, and a narrative of the historian's? findings and conclusions, with an explanation of evidence and methods playing an important but subordinate role. This seminar seeks to reverse this order in certain key respects. It places at center stage the fundamental tasks and motivations that historians face at the outset of their research, and of the many issues of research and presentation that pose additional challenges and choices for them along the way. The central ?text? of the seminar will be a typewritten journal kept by four young men during a car trip taken over a 2-week period in late Spring, 1937. We will use this journal as a springboard for some brainstorming and experimentation in creative historical research in an effort to provide this journey with a well-researched historical context. As to presentation, we will attempt to craft it as a story (historical fiction, if you will) vs. a conventional historical narrative. Possible long-term results of this project include a complete piece of historical fiction or screenplay stemming from this story.
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  • 79 167: Freshman Seminar: Issues in American Environmental History

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This seminar will focus on major issues in the evolution of the American environment. Much of America's past environmental history has been beset with controversy, as scientists and engineers, health officials, politicians and the public debated about the cause and solution for various environmental problems. This seminar will examine some of the major environmental issues that have evolved over time through a combination of reading, discussion, and short papers.
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  • 79 174: Freshman Seminar:North of the Border Mexican Immigration Past and Present

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    We continue to be bombarded with information about Mexican immigration, much of which is inaccurate or incomplete as well as highly charged emotionally and politically. This phenomenon of movement to the north has a long and complex history with many dimensions, a history important to understand because what we believe about the past influences our perceptions of the present. In this course we will explore, among other things, the history of Mexico and Mexican-U.S. relations; the historical reasons behind the economic and social dislocations of Mexican immigrants; their integration into the U.S. economy; the impact of immigration on both the sending and receiving communities; the changing destinations and demographics of the more recent immigrants; and barriers and facilitators to integration and mobility.
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