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  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010. Requires attendance at academic campus events of student's choice (conferences, lectures, colloquia, symposia, workshops, reading groups, etc.) and composing reflective, written assignments. Includes informal meetings with instructor at the beginning and end of the course. May be taken three times for credit.
  • 0.50 - 3.00 Credits

    Provides independent study as directed in reading and individual projects at the discretion and approval of the Dean and/or Department Chair. Limited to three credits toward graduation with an AS/AA degree.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Discusses various career choices for English majors. Familiarizes students with curricular emphases and department faculty. Emphasizes internships and other available activities. Features a regular rotation of English faculty guest speakers.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Considers prominent theories of rhetoric and accompanying methods for the production of texts in various contexts, encouraging adopting, amending, and/or developing hybrid theories of rhetoric.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Explores language structures, discovering connections between grammar (linguistic structure) and language uses (discourse and/or rhetoric). Includes the study of and practice in informed decision-making in the process of developing language structures (grammatical choices) appropriate to a particular rhetorical aim.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on the origins of the English language and how it has grown and continues to change. Introduces historical origins of the English language and changes that produced our present speech in its many dialects, creoles, and pidgins. Combines linguistic and rhetorical histories.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing; ENGL 2050 recommended. Refines student editing, design, and publishing skills. Provides students with the opportunity to take manuscripts from editing to press-ready. Teaches industry standards for current publishing tools. Includes projects such as designing books, marketing literature, and corporate identities. Covers design, typography, and pre-press issues as they relate to writing and editing documents. Recommended for students involved with student publications, including journals and campus newspaper.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s):ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Investigates the growing academic and cultural interest in the rhetorical nature of visual texts. Teaches critical thinking about the consumption and productions of images and multimodal texts. Explores visual grammars and other theories of visual rhetoric as articulated by contemporary image, language, and scholars of rhetoric. Encourages the development of theoretical and practical knowledge through reading, discussion, and analysis as well as through the production of visual texts and written work.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Pre- or Corequisite(s): ENGL 3010. Investigates the structure and nature of rhetorical identities and arguments in public discourse. Introduces genres of public discourse to examine their rhetorical construction and circulation to mass audiences. Explores and critiques theories of democratic deliberation. Studies texts in media such as advertising, blogs, film, social networking venues, television, and websites through specific theories of public rhetoric. Examines arguments regarding the complex nature of public ethos. Includes reading, discussion, analysis, research, and production of public rhetorics through a variety of media and methods.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Pre- or Corequisite(s): ENGL 3010. Explores popular culture as a contested site of meaning-making, identity-formation, and shared experiences. Reviews historical theories that construct the status of the popular or the mainstream versus the comparative labels of the "highbrow" and the "subcultural." Analyzes how media access, socioeconomic context, cultural movements, and generational differences formulate taste preferences and different styles of engagement with popular texts. Focuses on the rhetorical practices of pop culture creation and consumption with an emphasis on personal and political ramifications. Examines texts that are industry-produced and texts created through the practices of fans, critics, and theorists.