Courses

An introduction to writing style, rhetorical strategy, research methods, and best practices for writing website content while learning the basics of user experience (UX), search engine optimization, and content management systems as they relate to writing.

Writing skills, practices, and genres for the workplace, such as resumes, job applications, memos, emails, and reports, that support business processes and communication for diverse audiences.

This course offers an introduction to scriptwriting for a variety of media: commercials, PSAs, fiction films, documentaries, and the web. The art of "visual writing" is emphasized. Students produce scripts on their own while contributing to and critiquing the work of their fellow classmates. ed, communication medium.

This course explores the tremendous diversity of world writing systems and shares the challenges and the thrill of deciphering ancient scripts. It reveals how every writing system was embedded in its linguistic, historical, and cultural setting. Students begin with trying to define writing and to distinguish it from its precursors and other ways of recording and transmitting information. The course will also discuss the emergence of writing and its many deaths.

This course is a seminar for undergraduate students in French that focuses on writings on immigration in the context of all movement of immigrants in the French-speaking world, not just the French metropole and its immigrant neighborhoods. Writings cover a range of experiences and social classes, from an elite class of immigrants to clandestine immigration. Interdisciplinary critical theory is an important tool in literary analysis for this course.

Course offers students continued practice in reading, research, and writing central to academic investigation and to interdisciplinary approaches. Develops skills in writing across disciplines and critical thinking. Emphasizes readings on diverse, contemporary, and multicultural issues in African American Studies. Writing, Ethics and Civic Responsibility are significant components of this course.

An introduction to writing and communication in the life sciences. Topics will include searching the scientific literature, scientific writing style, data presentation, writing lab reports, and preparing scientific presentations.

Improvement of skills for public writing, using Birmingham as geographical, historical, and institutional context. Emphasis on issues related to Birmingham's past and present, including the ethics and civic responsibilities of Birmingham residents. This course meets Blazer Core Curriculum City as a Classroom with a flag in Post-Freshman Writing.

Fundamental composition course focusing on syntactical patterns of French, vocabulary building, correct usage, stylistic control, writing skills, and free composition. Conducted in French. May not concurrently enroll in FR 320. Writing is a significant component of this course.

This course introduces students to the writing situations they may encounter in legal professions.