Special problems. Department consent required

Upon successful completion of this course you will be proficient in the use of industry-standard web design software. The major and ongoing project for the course will be an online portfolio that demonstrates your skills as a web designer and professional writer

Upon successful completion of this course you will be proficient in the use of industry-standard web design software. The major and ongoing project for the course will be an online portfolio that demonstrates your skills as a web designer and professional writer

This course is an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric, defined here as the art of persuasion. For nearly 2,500 years, rhetoric has been the central academic discipline for thinking about the adaptation of discourse to purpose, audience, occasion, and subject matter. The earliest rhetorical arts were focused on public speaking in direct democracies; later rhetorics treated eloquence more broadly, including written discourse and its role in not only political and legal affairs but also religion, science, commerce, art, and education.

Directs students toward particular types of techical editing and writing: report writing, grant proposals, speechwriting, voiceovers, and integration with video and films, etc. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 381.

Continuation of ENGLISH 380. Production of documentation of portfolio quality; examples of technical editing and writing of entry-level quality. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 380 or consent of instructor.

This course will ask how African American writers sustain and manipulate a culturally specific literary tradition at various historical moments, ranging from the Colonial period to the post-Civil Rights era.

Close reading and analysis of novels to achieve an awareness of the aesthetic and social characteristics of the modern novel and a critical appreciation of the possibilities and varieties of point of view, time, and psychology in literary modernism. (Gen. Ed. AL)

A seminar in writing poetry for students who demonstrate familiarity with the basics of imagery, rhythm, and form. Students write regularly, read and criticize one another's writing, read in contemporary poetry.