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Courses

 

Technical Communication
  

  • TCOM 4045:Multi-Media for Technical Communicators

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TCOM 2010 . Non-majors: by permission of the Department
    This course is a study of the foundations of multi-media including theory, planning, scripting, storyboarding, and production for technical communicators. Projects in the class include developing multimedia-based process/mechanical descriptions, instructions and interactive graphics for product end users and customers. Students submit research work on the theory of multi-media.
  

  • TCOM 4050:Instructional Video

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TCOM 2010 . Non-major: by permission of the Department.
    This course addresses the theory and practice of developing “how-to” videos for product end users and customers. Fundamentals of instructional design, including audience analysis, goal analysis, formative and summative evaluation, are applied. Contemporary video technologies are used to generate products that instruct and inform end users/customers. Evaluation of technologies, content transfer, aesthetics and cultural considerations are addressed. Students assess commercially prepared videos and plan for incorporating them in training.
  

  • TCOM 4120:Usability

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TCOM 2010 . Non-major: by permission of the Department.
    This course introduces students to UX (User Experience) and usability testing. Included in the course is a review of the relevant research and practical applications of usability testing. Students learn how to develop strategies for planning, conducting, and analyzing a test. In teams, students perform tests using online testing tools, low-fidelity in-person methods, and formal usability lab settings. A final testing report with qualitative and quantitative results is required.
  

  • TCOM 4400:Directed Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: To be determined by the faculty member teaching the course
    This course addresses specific student needs for a specific technical communication topic not covered in the technical communication curriculum.
  

  • TCOM 4431:Information Design II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TCOM 3431 . Non-major: by permission of the Department
    Students apply principles and best practices of effective information design in the context of infographics and the visualization of data in analog, print, and digital media. Students create an analog journal of data visualizations and select one visualization of data to illustrate digitally. Additionally, they create graphs and charts in digital documents, produce an information graphic poster, and analyze their effectiveness
  

  • TCOM 4490:Special Topics in Technical Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the Technical Communication Coordinator and The DWMA Department Chair
    This course is used by faculty to offer topics that are relevant to the study of technical communication not currently in the technical communication curriculum.

Theatre and Performance Studies
  

  • TPS 1107:Theatre in Society

    3 Credit Hours
    This interactive course examines the role of theatre in society through the study of dramatic works and performance events within their cultural and historical contexts. Course assignments promote understanding of the creative process and develop skills in critical analysis, global perspectives, and collaboration. Attendance is required at live performances, including some events with paid admission.
  

  • TPS 1500:Introduction to Theatre Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS interest. 
    An introduction to theatre as a field of study and as an art form.
  

  • TPS 1600:Introduction to Performance Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS interest. 
    An introduction to performance as a field of study and as an art form.
  

  • TPS 1713:Stagecraft

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS interest.
    Theoretical and practical work in theatre crafts including carpentry, properties, costumes, scene painting, stage lighting, and sound. Special attention will be given to safety precautions in each area.
  

  • TPS 2202:Introduction to Acting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Not available to declared TPS majors.
    This course is an introduction to basic acting techniques. It is designed for non-Theatre and Performance Studies majors or those students who are considering a Theatre and Performance Studies major but are currently undeclared.
  

  • TPS 2203:Acting I: Principles of Acting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS interest. 
    The theory and practice of the actor’s craft.
  

  • TPS 2290:Special Topics

    1-12 Variable Credit Hours
    Students will explore special topics relevant to the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies. 
  

  • TPS 2713:Theatre Production

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1713  
    A study of the creative process of theatrical production from concept to performance. This course features the analysis of selected scripts as well as individually-designed production and/or performance assignments. Theatre and Performance Studies majors must complete TPS 2713 two times for a total of four hours credit.
  

  • TPS 2813:Visual Imagination

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Declared Theatre and Performance Studies Major
    This course is a course in the visual aspects of the art of theatre that focuses on the principles, the elements and the history and current practice of visual design for the theatre.
  

  • TPS 3000:Performing Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 1600  
    The study of a variety of literary texts through solo and group performance. Students engage course topics through critical reading, written analysis, and embodied performance.
  

  • TPS 3015:Musical Theatre Techniques I

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Declared Theatre and Performance Studies Major
    This course focuses on basic skills in musical theatre singing styles and vocal health.
  

  • TPS 3050:Applied Performance and Production

    1 Credit Hours
    This laboratory course focuses on the study, rehearsal, and performance or production for a Department of Theatre and Performance Studies production. This course may be repeated for upper division credit and can be used for applied professional sequence (APS) credit.
  

  • TPS 3093:Performing Folktales and Fairy Tales

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1600  
    The study of folktales and fairy tales from world oral traditions through storytelling performance.
  

  • TPS 3094:Performing Classical Myth

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1600  
    The study of Greek and Roman mythology through storytelling performance.
  

  • TPS 3095:Performing Irish Myth

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1600  
    The study of Irish mythology through storytelling performance.
  

  • TPS 3193:Performing World Myth

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1600  
    The study of world mythology through storytelling performance.
  

  • TPS 3194:Performing Personal Narrative

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1600  
    The study of personal narratives through performance.
  

  • TPS 3200:The Actor’s Voice

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2203  or permission of the instructor.
    This course is designed to help performers develop a healthy, expressive and flexible vocal technique equal to the demands of dramatic performance. Students learn to free their natural voices through physical exercises and by mastering the vocabulary of vocal mechanics. Breathing, posture, relaxation, and articulation are examined as key elements of voice and speech production.
     
  

  • TPS 3210:Movement for the Actor

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2203 
    Movement for the Actor is a studio course dedicated to bringing awareness to the body as an essential part of the actor’s training. In this course, the student actor will explore the expressive capacity of the physical and emotional body in the context of acting.
  

  • TPS 3213:Acting for the Camera

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 3223  
    An intermediate acting course applying acting techniques to the special demands of film and television.
  

  • TPS 3223:Acting II: Intermediate Acting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major, a grade of “B” or better in TPS 2203  
    An intermediate acting course applying and advancing the principles of Acting I to intermediate level stage challenges.
  

  • TPS 3243:Acting III: Acting Styles

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major and TPS 2203  or TPS 3223   
    This course explores advanced topics in the art of stage acting. Emphasis is on period and genre styles. Theoretical studies will be combined with the performance of selected scenes and critical evaluations of peer and professional work. *This course may be repeated more than once for credit provided that the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.
  

  • TPS 3320:Musical Theatre Performance: Applied Voice

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 3015  and entrance by application
    Advanced practice and study in the craft and theory of musical theatre vocal performance. Work will culminate each semester in a recital or showcase. May be repeated for credit up to six times.
  

  • TPS 3398:Internship

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the department chair.
    A supervised, credit-earning work experience of one academic semester with a previously approved business firm, private agency, or government agency.
  

  • TPS 3400:Performance Composition

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 1600  or permission of the instructor.
    Course examines and applies various approaches for composing live performance events. Additionally, students research and analyze a wide range of performance texts as inspiration for composing and mounting their own performances. Finally, the course culminates in a final presentation of student works.
  

  • TPS 3403:Play Analysis for Production

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 1500  
    Textual analysis of playscripts, with an emphasis on the perspective of the practitioner of theatre. A preparatory course for the history of theatre and drama sequence.
  

  • TPS 3493:Performance Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1600  
    History, theories, and practice of performance art from futurism to the present. Emphasis is on the creation and performance of image, auteur approaches to literary, mythic, visual art, and personal sources, and the writing and staging of performance pieces.
  

  • TPS 3500:Dramaturgy

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 3403  
    Close study of performance texts and source material, with an emphasis on dramaturgical praxis, including an overview of the history/theory of the dramaturg.
  

  • TPS 3600:Performing Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 1600  
    The study of the forms and functions of cultural performance practices. Students engage course topics through critical reading, written analysis, original fieldwork, and embodied performance.
  

  • TPS 3700:Music Theory for Musical Theatre

    2 Credit Hours
    Corequisite: TPS 1500  
    Music sight-reading skills and aural techniques specifically tailored for the musical theatre performer are the focus of this course. Students will apply these skills through practical application using examples from musical theatre literature.
  

  • TPS 3703:Musical Theatre History and Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major and ENGL 1102  
    This course is an introduction to musical theatre which surveys the major shows in musical theatre literature, through the study of the plots, scores, characters, and songs of the shows. Students explore the genre’s place and function in theatre history as both an art form and popular entertainment and its influence on culture in general.
  

  • TPS 3710:Musical Theatre Voice

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 3015 
    An intermediate study of healthy vocal production for musical theatre singers. Focuses on building musical theatre repertoire and audition preparation. Study occurs through a weekly group studio class and weekly private sessions with instructor.
  

  • TPS 3713:Acting in Musical Theatre

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2203  and TPS 3015 
    This course provides students the opportunity to develop an effective acting technique for the musical stage. Through in-class exercises and the study of the scores and libretti from major shows in the repertoire, students will develop performance techniques particular to the musical theatre genre and an appreciation of its diverse styles.
  

  • TPS 3740:Musical Theatre Dance Workshop

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3100  or DANC 3200 
    This course provides an understanding of technical dance terms, relevant to the varied styles of Musical Theatre, through study and application in the studio. Students will learn various dance numbers from musical theatre repertoire, study the history of musical theatre dance, and prepare for professional theatre dance auditions. Students will also increase performance stamina by integrating dance technique, style, character development, and vocals.
  

  • TPS 3815:Makeup Design and Application for the Performer

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2813 
    This course introduces the student to two-dimensional stage makeup, focusing on an understanding of facial structure, a proficiency in basic makeup concepts and application procedures, and a knowledge of the role of makeup as a critical component in a complete performance.
  

  • TPS 3820:Scene Painting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major
    This course provides students with fundamentals in painting for the theatre, which includes scene painting material, tools, methods, processes, and techniques. It consists of instructional talks, demonstrations, hands-on experience and rationalization.
  

  • TPS 3823:Design Skills

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2813 
    Basic design skills including drafting, sketching and rendering. Offered in versions oriented specifically toward set design or costume design in alternating years.
  

  • TPS 3833:Fundamentals of Drawing for Theatre

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major or TPS Interest
    Fundamentals of Drawing for Theatre introduces materials, tools, methods, processes, and techniques of drawing through lectures, exercises, projects, homework, and critique. Structured around five class projects, this course aims to develop a skill base in drawing that is essential in the training of theatrical designers.
  

  • TPS 3853:Period Styles

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2813 
    An examination of the history and interrelationships between dress, architecture and the visual arts as they relate to the field of theatrical design.
  

  • TPS 4010:Storytelling Practicum

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 1600  and permission of the instructor. Audition required.
    Advanced study of the methods and practice of storytelling as a performing art. Students develop a repertoire of stories suitable for various audiences and occasions. Off-campus and out-of-class performances comprise a major required component of the course.

    Notes: May be taken three times for a total of 6 credit hours.
  

  • TPS 4015:Musical Theatre Techniques II

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 3015 
    This course focuses on skills in musical theatre singing styles for intermediate-level students.
  

  • TPS 4020:Musical Theatre Ensemble

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 3015  or TPS 4015 ; Entrance by audition or application and acceptance into Musical Theatre Ensemble.
    Advanced practice and study in the craft and theory of musical theatre performance. Work will culminate each semester in either a production or a juried recital. May be repeated for credit up to six times.
  

  • TPS 4030:Actor’s Studio

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Audition and/or the approval of the instructor.
    This practical-based course focuses on advanced practice and study in the craft and theory of acting. Students explore a variety of acting styles through intensive scene work and exercises. Actor’s Studio may be repeated for credit up to four times; students who have taken the course twice may elect to take the course for 0 credit hours.
  

  • TPS 4040:Stage Combat

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2203  
    This is an introductory course in Stage Combat. Students will learn the skills necessary to safely and dynamically create the illusion of violence on stage.
  

  • TPS 4050:Advanced Applied Performance and Production

    2 Credit Hours
    This laboratory course focuses on advanced study, rehearsal, and performance or production for a Department of Theatre and Performance Studies production. This course may be repeated for upper-division credit and may be used for applied professional sequence credit.
  

  • TPS 4243:Audition Practicum

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 3223  
    This course prepares students for the major forms of auditions they will encounter in the field of acting.
  

  • TPS 4313:Principles of Directing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 3403  
    Students will learn the fundamentals of directing for the stage. Theoretical studies will be combined with the direction of selected scenes and observation of working directors. Emphasis is on 20th century realism.
  

  • TPS 4323:Directing Styles

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS Major. TPS 3403  
    Students will learn the fundamentals of directing for the stage. Emphasis is on non-realistic period and genre styles. Theoretical studies will be combined with the direction of selected scenes and observation of working directors. *This course may be repeated more than once for credit provided that the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.
  

  • TPS 4333:Adapting and Staging Literary Texts

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 3000  or permission of the instructor/department.
    Aesthetics, methods, and practice in presentational modes of group performance. Emphasis on the selection, adaptation, and staging of poetic, narrative, and nonfiction texts.
  

  • TPS 4400:Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected topics of an advanced nature, which may include original research projects.
  

  • TPS 4490:Special Topics

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and departmental chair.
    Topics of special interest to students and faculty.

    Notes: This course may be repeated more than once for credit provided that the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.
  

  • TPS 4513:History and Theory I: Ancient through Renaissance Theatre and Performance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 3403 
    This course focuses on studies in the history, theory, and literature of world theatre and performance traditions from ancient times through the Renaissance.
  

  • TPS 4523:History and Theory II: Neoclassical through Romantic Theatre and Performance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 4513 
    This course focuses on studies in the history, theory, and literature of world theatre and performance traditions from the Neoclassical Age through early Modernism.
  

  • TPS 4533:History and Theory III: Victorian through Contemporary Theatre and Performance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 4513 
    This course centers on studies in the history, theory, and literature of world theatre and performance traditions from the Victorian period through the contemporary era.
  

  • TPS 4543:American Performance Traditions

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 4513  
    Studies in the history of American solo performance and popular entertainment traditions.
  

  • TPS 4813:Scene Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2813 
    Building blocks for scene design with an emphasis on transforming written text into three-dimensional visual language, and working through fundamental scene design problems.
  

  • TPS 4823:Lighting Design for the Stage

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2813 
    Study of lighting design for the stage, including study of lighting instruments and control.
  

  • TPS 4833:Costume Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 2813 
    Study of principles, methods and processes for costume design for the stage.
  

  • TPS 4999:Senior Seminar: The Scholar Artist

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: TPS 4513 
    This capstone course investigates the roles creativity, scholarship, and artistic identity play in personal and professional lives via mission statements, career goals, and action steps. Projects include discipline-specific design, development, and integration of self-marketing tools into presentations for entering the professional world.

Writing
  

  • WRIT 3000:Introduction to Creative Writing Genres

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course is a multi-genre creative writing survey incorporating the study of three genres from the following list: short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, playwriting, and screenplay writing. Pairing creativity with technique, this content-based course introduces students to concepts, approaches, and methods. As students develop a portfolio of work, they learn to contextualize their own writing with writings from celebrated authors by completing short critical commentaries. This course introduces students to the workshop format.
  

  • WRIT 3100:Poetry Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course is a workshop approach to poetry writing that emphasizes original writing, revision, and analysis and response from classmates. Some attention is given to the work of established writers as models.
  

  • WRIT 3109:Careers in Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course exposes students from a variety of backgrounds to various careers in writing. (Students need not be English majors.) Students will analyze and create a wide variety of professional texts ranging from technical, business, and governmental documents to medical, community-based, and web-based documents.
  

  • WRIT 3110:Playwriting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course is a workshop approach to playwriting that emphasizes original writing, revision, and analysis and response from classmates. Some attention is given to the work of established writers as models.
  

  • WRIT 3111:Professional Editing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This is a course in editing as a practice and a profession. It focuses on editorial roles and responsibilities and introduces students to the skills, principles, and methods of editing. Course assignments provide ample practice in applying the techniques of editing, including editing for grammar, punctuation, and style. This course prepares students for careers in publishing and writing.
  

  • WRIT 3120:Fiction Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course is a workshop approach to fiction writing that emphasizes original writing, revision, and analysis and response from classmates. Some attention is given to the work of established writers as models.
  

  • WRIT 3125:Interactive Narrative & Games

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course explores the theory and practice of writing narratives for interactive fiction and video games. Through multiple written projects and workshops, students gain experience developing and creating interactive narratives for diverse platforms and genres. Additionally, students explore the intersection among narrative theory, game studies, and creative authorship through critical readings and discussion.
  

  • WRIT 3130:Literary Nonfiction

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 

     
    This course is a study and practice of selected genres of literary nonfiction. The course features extensive nonfiction writing and revision, workshop discussion, and readings in major authors of literary nonfiction.
  

  • WRIT 3140:Writing in the Workplace

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course emphasizes strategies for producing effective documents in a variety of professional contexts. Students gain practice with common workplace forms as they master writing clearly and with the needs and expectations of their audiences in mind. This course is particularly valuable to students preparing for careers in business, government, and nonprofit organizations.
  

  • WRIT 3150:Topics in Digital Rhetoric

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course explores rhetorical practices in electronic environments and provides an examination of major works on digital reading, writing, and culture framed by contemporary rhetorical theories. Students plan, design, and compose a variety of rhetorically effective digital texts. This course can be taken more than once provided the course content differs from the previous offering. 
  

  • WRIT 3151:Digital Storytelling

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    Stories shape both our personal identities and our culture. Stories move us, entertain us, and affect social change and public awareness. This Digital Storytelling course focuses on the theory and practice of narrative composition in digital environments, including text, image, audio, and video. Students learn to compose rhetorically dynamic and engaging digital stories that explore a variety of types, techniques, audiences, and purposes (for personal, academic, and professional contexts). The course explores critical and creative approaches to narrative and visual design while attending to the interplay of form and content.
  

  • WRIT 3152:Digital Community Engagement

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course includes collaborative digital writing projects that reach beyond the classroom for the purpose of community engagement and/or community service. Students learn to use digital tools that support collaboration and streamlined team organization. The course involves students in writing, research, and analysis to implement projects of value in which they partner with community groups to inform, educate, and advocate for change through the design of digital content and engagement projects.
  

  • WRIT 3160:Argumentative Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course focuses on the study and practice of argumentative writing. It includes the study of current models of effective arguments and the process of forming written arguments. It features extensive writing and revision, workshop discussion, and readings of classical and contemporary arguments. The course can be taken more than once provided the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.

    Notes: These courses can be taken more than once provided the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.
  

  • WRIT 3170:Environmental Writing and Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course is intended for students interested in major works of environmental literature and for those who wish to think and write about the interconnections between humans and the nonhuman world. The course studies pastoral literature, nature writing, and science writing, and provides instruction in the writing of environmental nonfiction prose for aesthetic, expressive, intellectual, and instrumental purposes.

    Notes: This course can be taken more than once if content differs entirely from a previous offering.
  

  • WRIT 3210:Graphic Storytelling

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course focuses on the theory, practice, and production of comics and graphic narratives across media. Topics may include visual rhetoric, graphic and transmedia storytelling, image and representation, and the use of other sensory-based media in graphic narrative. Projects may include essays, sketchbooks, proposals/scripts, a chapter of a graphic novel, a pilot for a comic book series, and a one-off graphic storytelling project.
  

  • WRIT 3650:Introduction to Literacy Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course provides students with an overview of approaches to studying and shaping literacy in a range of social contexts, including workplace, instructional, and community settings. Students explore literacy studies research, literacy practices, and the implications of competing definitions of literacy within the field of rhetoric and professional writing as well as other disciplines.
  

  • WRIT 3810:Research Methods for Writers

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course introduces students to quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods theories in the fields of writing studies and engages students in practices of researched writing for a variety of digital media spaces. Students learn to create and process research reports by getting exposure to mixed methods, including interviewing, survey design, and archival work. The course teaches how to perform basic qualitative and quantitative analyses and IRB-approved research.
  

  • WRIT 4100:Advanced Poetry Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: WRIT 3100  
    Building on the skills learned in WRIT 3100, this course offers advanced workshop experiences for practiced writers of poetry and includes lecture and discussion of contemporary approaches to poetics and the work of contemporary poets. This workshop approach stresses development and integration of all technical and artistic elements of poetry writing.
  

  • WRIT 4110:Advanced Playwriting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: WRIT 3110  
    This advanced workshop stresses development and integration of all technical and artistic elements of playwriting. Some readings from the work of established writers are included.
  

  • WRIT 4120:Advanced Fiction Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: WRIT 3120  
    Building on the skills learned in WRIT 3120, this course offers advanced workshop experiences for practiced writers of fiction and includes lecture and discussion of contemporary approaches to fiction writing and the work of contemporary fiction writers. This workshop approach stresses development and integration of all technical and artistic elements of fiction writing.
  

  • WRIT 4125:Advanced Techniques in Fiction Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: WRIT 4120  or permission of the instructor.
    Advanced Techniques in Fiction Writing is a seminar-workshop that offers in-depth study of a topic in fiction writing. It builds on skills learned in WRIT 4120, but differs from this workshop in that it focuses on a particular topic rather than student-generated manuscripts. For example, students may study a specific author’s use of a technique or the use of a technique in a subgenre as a model for their own writing.
  

  • WRIT 4130:Advanced Creative Nonfiction

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: WRIT 3130  
    This course offers advanced workshop experiences for practiced writers of creative nonfiction and includes lecture and discussion of contemporary approaches to writing creative nonfiction and the work of contemporary creative nonfiction writers. This workshop approach stresses development and integration of all technical and artistic elements of writing creative nonfiction.

Academy for Inclusive Learning and Social Growth
  

  • AIAE 0101:Introduction to ASCE I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only.
    This course focuses on the transition to the ASCE program and provides a framework for understanding everyday life skills in the areas of responsibility, respect for self and others, teamwork, maintaining positive attitude, time management, financial responsibility, and other critical elements that are needed to become independent young adults today.
  

  • AIAE 0102:Introduction to ASCE II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only and AIAE 0101  
    This course builds on the content covered in ASCE I and identifies methods for individualized supports to build, monitor, and enhance core academic and social skills related to overall school success. Students will explore methods for improving the development of individual thinking, socialization, and how to succeed in independent living situations.
  

  • AIAE 0103:Professional Communication I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Students must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only. 
    This course is designed to enhance young adults with communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills they need to be successful in life. This course will focus on the development of communication skills in a professional setting, professionalism and critical thinking through lecture, group work, and experiential learning opportunities.
  

  • AIAE 0104:Processional Communication II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Students must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only and AIAE 0103  
    This course builds on the content covered in Professional Communications 1 and will introduce students to the theories and best practices of speech communication as applied to business and professional situations.
  

  • AIAE 0105:Career Preparation and Internship I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Students must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only.
    This course is designed to allow students the opportunity to establish, develop, and expand skills that lead to positive employment outcomes through hands-on experiences and in-class instruction of best practices. 
  

  • AIAE 0106:Career Preparation and Internship II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Students must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only and AIAE 0105  
    This course will expand on skills developed in Career Preparation and Internship I. This course is designed to assist students in understanding the career development process in order to make informed and appropriate occupational and educational decisions. Internship hours are required.
  

  • AIAE 0201:Managing Personal Resources I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Students must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only. 
    This course explores how to use human, material, and community resources effectively, and how to make informed choices with respect to purchases, food, nutrition, housing, and transportation. Students will learn how to make responsible choices in their transition to independent living and strategies to enable them to manage time, talents, and money effectively.
  

  • AIAE 0202:Managing Personal Resources II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only and AIAE 0201  
    This course builds on the skills learned in Managing Personal Resources I with an emphasis on introducing students to skills used resource management. Student will identify the principles and techniques required for effective management of personal and family finances and identify the roles that responsible consumerism plays in independent and family living.
  

  • AIAE 0203:Intermediate Professional Communications I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only.
    This course is designed to build on skills learned in year 1 of the ASCE program.  The course concentrates on building speaking and delivery skills, as well as critical thinking and analytical skills that focus on presentation organization.  Students will begin to make choices about the most effective and efficient way to communicate and deliver messages. 
  

  • AIAE 0204:Intermediate Professional Communications II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only and AIAE 0203  
    This course builds on skills learned Intermediate Professional Communications I with an emphasis on providing a conceptual framework and specific tools for communicating in complex environments.  Students will demonstrate how to offer feedback, accept feedback, and use feedback to improve communication skills. 
  

  • AIAE 0205:Career Preparation and Internship III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only.
    This course is designed to prepare students in the ASCE program for the transition to the workforce.  Students will investigate how their skills, interests, values and personality influence career decisions.   Students will begin to organize and prepare professional documents that includes resumes, cover letters, letters of recommendation, and other essential items needed for a customized employment portfolio. Internship hours are required.
  

  • AIAE 0206:Career Preparation and Internship IV

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the Academic, Social and Career Enrichment Certificate only and AIAE 0205  
    This course builds on skills discussed in Career Preparation and Internship III.  Students will investigate the job search process and recognize the qualities, skills, and abilities that employers are seeking in job candidates.  Students will complete professional documents that include a resume, cover letters, letters of recommendation, and other essential items needed for a customized employment portfolio.  Internship hours are required.
  

  • AIAE 0301:Advanced Professional Communications I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Students must be enrolled in the Advanced Leadership and Career Development Certificate only.
    This course is designed to understand theories and practice of speech and written communication as applied to business and professional situations.  Students will learn to demonstrate an understanding of professional language, written principles, and multimodal communication, including verbal, written, and digital/visual modes.
 

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