Courses

Introduction to the technique, form, style, and content of writing for the mass media, with attention to the various formats used in journalism, telecommunications, advertising, public relations and Internet communications.

Introduction to the technique, form, style, and content of writing for the mass media with attention to the various formats used in journalism, telecommunications, advertising, public relations and Internet communications.

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This class is an introduction to the art of scriptwriting and screenwriting. Students techniques of shaping those stories for the stage and for the screen. Explore ways and structuring dramatic and cinematic acts and scenes.

A comprehensive course that introduces the fundamentals of writing for performance media. It offers students a platform to explore the distinctive narrative structures, character development techniques, and dialog crafting necessary for theatre, film, television, and creative media. The course emphasizes the unique demands and opportunities of each medium, guiding students through the creation of original works that resonate with audiences across various platforms.

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.

Instruction and practice with the major genres and argumentative structures of writing from observation, interviews and artifacts as in some social sciences and creative writing. Special emphasis on how writing shapes disciplinary knowledge in methodologies for qualitative research and fieldwork, including ethnography.