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Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
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OWL Lab: The Purdue Online Writing Lab
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An overview of women’s studies that examines the pervasive and often unacknowledged ways that gender shapes our social institutions, individual knowledge and inter-personal relationships. Includes history, literature and film by and about women. May be used to satisfy general curriculum distribution in social science. This is a writing-intensive class.
It is one of the great ironies of contemporary existence that we are beset, informed, controlled, and constructed by images, yet we receive almost no formal training in understanding and creating visual communication. Visual Literacy addresses this issue through interdisciplinary study of the terminology and theory of visual communication, with special emphasis on the relationship of visuality and cultural practice. Considering ideas from art history, photography, film, mass media, and cultural studies, students will be asked to analyze visual rhetoric, begin to see critically, articulate meaning, and author visual rhetoric of their own.
This course takes a step-by-step approach to designing and producing a web site, incorporating (X)HTML and CSS, as well as Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. The course encourages students to learn about professional technologies, demonstrate understanding of usability principles, and consider the Internet in critical contexts.
COM 346 Writing for Interactive Media
This course will explore practice and theory in three fields of writing for interactive media: copywriting, e-journalism, and experimental “net narrative” writing. Building on knowledge of narrative traditions, including linear and nonlinear narrative structures, students will explore possibilities for representing multiple voices and points of view; investigate uses of multimedia in interactive environments; research usability principles in information design; and learn about special considerations for developing text for Internet and CD-ROM, considering specific audiences and purposes. Students will demonstrate their knowledge by researching and applying theories in the analysis of actual web sites, and by developing their own web sites (text, site maps, and information design). They will not be required to learn web technologies or create actual web sites, though students who do have knowledge of those technologies may apply them in projects. This is a writing-intensive course.
COM 383 Writing for Advertising
This writing-intensive course involves strategic concept-development and writing for advertising projects, as well as a look at ethical considerations related to the practice. This course replaces COM 382 on the old curriculum. This is a writing intensive course.
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