4 Credit Hours. Students apply techniques learned in Technical Writing for instance, physical and process description writing to put together a complete and detailed piece of technical documentation. The course focuses on building and refining mass communication theory. Focusing on the persuasive strategies used by individuals and groups to change society, this course stresses the history and patterns of persuasion influencing social change in human rights and race, human rights and gender, war and peace, and environmental policy. 4 Credit Hours.
Emphasis is primarily on writing for the print media.
Emphasis on frequent writing against a deadline. 4 Credit Hours. The acceptability of the students's project is determined on the basis of its intrinsic literary merit and its potential value to the student's development as a writer. An examination of the documentary film and video as case studies in communication media. The course focuses on filmic techniques used as argument, persuasion, propaganda and reconstruction of reality.