This one semester course is designed for vocabulary building and improving verbal skills. The selection of materials is based on the belief that the most reliable method of learning word meanings is through word elements. The roots chosen and derivatives studied have been drawn from high school and college readings and from samples found in standardized tests. This course is particularly valuable for students who are college bound. Newspaper staff plan each issue, write and edit stories, write headlines and photo captions, lay out and paste up pages, take and process photographs, sell advertising, and manage the business aspects of newspaper production.
Photojournalism is the prerequisite for staff photographers.
They must also apply for these staff positions. This one semester course will provide a study of poetry as a literary form. Students will explore poetic themes and devices. They will also write various forms of poetry. This course is a basic composition class which will concentrate heavily on the grammatical aspects in the first semester or term.