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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to tools, vocabulary, and techniques used to tell a screen story and take an original idea to outline form. Students become familiar with screenwriting terminology as scenes from well-known films are analyzed to reveal structural elements in the writing. By the end of the course, students have developed an original idea into a detailed short-length screenplay.
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3.00 Credits
Students will take the screenplays from COM 232 and learn all of the production attributes of film necessary to bring those screenplays to life in the form of 10-20 minutes films.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the contemporary memoir and the related genres of life writing, the autobiographical essay, the personal essay, etc. The course will require a balance of reading well-known contemporary authors as well as working on our own essays, including weekly writing, sharing, editing, and providing feedback to others. Topics covered will include defining memoir, the nature of memory and truth, how to make our life experiences accessible to readers, form, scene, character, voice details, and methods for critique and revision. Students will also document their writing process through memos, drafts, and a final portfolio project.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to stagecraft with practical applications to productions for children.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on specific genres, directors, themes or eras in film as comprehensively as possible through critique and analysis of film directly and consideration of cultural context and critical analysis and academic evaluation of said theme. The topic of the course will be a revolving one.
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3.00 Credits
This course gives students the tools to design, write, and present primary communication research in both academic and professional contexts. Developing the literacy to interpret and evaluate published research will also be stressed. The research methods introduced will include experiments, surveys, content analysis, focus groups, interviews, and participant observation.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on how the discipline of public relations evolved, and how public attitudes are influenced by the media. Students will learn to recognize ethical and legal implications of media situations.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the style and forms of business and professional writing with emphasis on direct sentence patterns and clear language. (Offered only in the accelerated format.)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to writing center scholarship, theory, and practice. Students will explore how writers engage with each other and the writing process, and will become familiar with ways of responding to writers in one-to-one contexts. Open to those who already work or wish to work in the Immaculata Writing Center as a Writing Assistant, as well as to students interested in broader issues of writing studies and teaching at the secondary and college levels.
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3.00 Credits
Issues of race, gender, class, and disability and the ways these impact the teaching of writing are introduced. Students learn and contrast disciplinary conventions and features of academic genres to understand how embedded values inform writing style. Through exploring how tutor and writer identities are implicated in the tutorial and examining language from various sociolinguistic, multi-literacy, and translingual perspectives, students learn how to navigate differences to collaborate with writers in meaningful ways.
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