CAHSS Graduate Catalog 2018 - 2019

199 The personal beliefs and philosophies regarding dying, loss, and death are explored. Bereavement across the life cycle, including developmental issues relating to adults and children and their understanding of loss are reviewed. The manner in which other cultures create meaningful rituals for life and death will be presented. Offered summer term. SHSS – Humanities and Social Sciences SHSS 6620 - Academic Writing (Elective) This writing course is a user-friendly seminar on how to write clear, unpretentious academic prose. Technical issues are covered that include sentence structure, punctuation, tenses, idea development and presented in a non- technical manner. The focus includes strategies for creating and editing manuscripts and for researching, organizing, and writing literature reviews. Offered each term. WRIT—Writing WRIT 5000 Professional and Public Writing (3 credits) This course offers an advanced study of professional writing strategies for public documents, including documentation and research, proposals and reports, argument and persuasion, layout and design, and writing and etiquette within electronic media. WRIT 5010 Research Methods (3 credits) This course offers writers opportunities to practice various qualitative, quantitative, textual, and historical research methods. WRIT 5020 Poetry Writing Workshop (3 credits) An advanced poetry writing workshop focusing on the art and craft of poetry within a collaborative, peer-review environment. Development of metaphorical structure and metrical language exploration of the universal in individual human experience will be particularly emphasized. WRIT 5030 Fiction Writing Workshop (3 credits) An advanced fiction writing workshop focusing on the art and craft of fiction within a collaborative, peer-review environment. Students will hone the techniques and tools of the fiction writer, such as a plot, narrative strategy, character, and motif. WRIT 5040 Screenwriting Workshop (3 credits) This workshop style class will examine the narrative structure and mechanics of the screenplay, as well as its creation and history. Particular emphasis will be on idea generation, plot development, screenplay format, writing treatments, scene construction, dialogue, and character development. WRIT 5050 Autobiography and Memoir Workshop (3 credits) This workshop style course focuses on the art and craft of autobiographical and memoir writing, by reading representative authors, understanding strategies used to represent the self in memory, and writing autobiographical/memoir pieces. WRIT 5060 Writing Literary Nonfiction (3 credits) This course focuses on reading and developing writing strategies for true-life stories in the nonfiction tradition exemplified by such writers as Agee, McPhee, Didion, Krakauer, and Sedaris, with particular emphasis on under- standing and experimenting with the boundaries on non-fiction prose. WRIT 5100 Teaching Writing (3 credits) An introduction to teaching composition on the secondary and college under- graduate levels; methods of teaching composition based on modern theories of rhetoric, reading, language acquisition, and pedagogical strategies. WRIT 5120 Theories of Composition (3 credits) This course provides the necessary foundation for students to be able to examine critical and rhetorical theories related to writing. Students will engage academic discourse to synthesize and analyze existing theoretical frameworks and apply them in their own writing. This course prepares students to write for academic contexts and to propose writing-related research. Course Frequency: Every Winter WRIT 5140 Writing Center Praxis (3 credits) This course provides students with advanced theoretical and experiential grounding in peer conferencing. Students study writing center theory and practice, and they apply such strategies in conferences with writers. The course prepares students for administrative duties of writing center practitioners. Course Frequency: Even Year Winter WRIT 5160 Teaching Writing Online (3 credits) This course focuses on the development of online writing instruction. Students learn to use a variety of online teaching technologies in order to produce effective writing curricula based on appropriate theories of composition. Course Frequency: Odd Year Winter WRIT 5200 Grammar and History of the English Language (3 credits) A study of the structure and development of the English language fromOld English to Modern English, including changes in word forms, meanings and sounds, syntax and grammar. WRIT 5250 Social Media Writing and Strategy (3 credits) This course offers students practical instruction in writing strategies for social media and other electronic media. WRIT 5320 Advanced Writing with Technologies (3 credits)