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  • 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.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2600 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Corequisite(s): ENGL 3000 Recommended. Centers on scholarly research and writing in fields related to English Studies, drawing on students' areas of focus. Emphasizes analysis, rhetorical theories of writing, development, style, oral presentations, and primary and secondary research techniques. Prepares students to extend their abilities with researched writing in other upper-division courses and teaches students advanced scholarly attitudes toward researched writing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2150 and University Advanced Standing. Surveys the history of non-fiction/documentary film from 1896 to the present. Includes study of early pioneers from Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH to the current trend of reality television and popular documentaries. Some films screened may carry an "R" rating.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2150 or THEA 1023) and University Advanced Standing. Studies the evolution of global film styles, movements, stars, and genres with a focus on international cinema chronologies outside the United States. Some films screened may be considered controversial and carry an "R" rating.
    General Education Course
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): (CINE 2150 or ENGL 2150) and University Advanced Standing. Examines major theoretical approaches to the screen arts. Explores how cinema and television reflect and are created by historical and contemporary cultural contexts. Includes the study of various approaches such as fan studies, spectatorship, stars, authorship, genre, long-form narrative and production. Includes lecture, film and media screenings, and critical discussions of assigned readings.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a grade of C- or higher and University Advanced Standing. Teaches technical communication skills and methodologies in demand by business and industry. Provides collaborative experience in the development of a professional, team-oriented project, using suitable technology. Integrates textual and visual rhetorics through effective design practices. Emphasizes primary and secondary research as well as usability testing.. Lab access fee of $12 for computers applies.