The class will also provide the opportunity for students to compete at intercollegiate forensics tournaments in the Northwest region. Tournament travel is not a requirement of the course, and those wishing to travel can expect to pay a portion of their travel expenses. COMM 360 is offered for 1 to 3 credits, based on the level of participation in the class, and can be repeated for up to 9 credits. A recent syllabus and other team information are posted on this Web page. S. Justman Combining readings by noted authors, regular tutorials, and weekly essays, this section of Honors Composition is the only course of its kind in the University.
Emphasis falls equally on the craft of writing and the investigation of ideas.
Close consultation with the instructor on a research paper is a central activity. Standards in this course are appropriately exacting, with high value placed on clarity, cogency, and expressive force. The poets given primary attention in this course will include E.A. Robinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, but exemplary poems by T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Mariane Moore, W.H. Auden, and Theodore Roethke also will be examined. Consideration of such major themes as Belief, Doubt, and Acceptance, within the context of the concept of existential nothingness, will inform our reading of many of the poems of this period. Same as LS 356.80 A number of physicians have successfully combined an active medical practice with a career as an author.