Also builds skills in writing and presentations to help students prepare for medical school. Not open to freshmen. Students select units on graphics, oral presentation, document design, ethics, technical style, and editing. Some assignments linked to topics from student's engineering courses. Must be concurrently enrolled in one or more engineering courses.
Enrollment is limited.
Includes ads, newspaper stories, feature articles, scripts, and best selling fiction and nonfiction. How these construct the identities of large audiences and invite personal identification with certain themes and styles. Compares student prose to linguistic forms of U.S. culture. Emphasis will fall in analysis of his works within a literary, philosophical, and historical context. Since places in the course will be decided by a drawing, there is no need to arrive early.