An introduction to more advanced courses requiring language skills. Required of students who have been identified as needing skill development for success in college and professional situations. Intensive writing and analytic reading to develop the ability to communicate with clarity, logic, accuracy, and confidence. An examination of euphemism, double-speak, and other contemporary language abuses.
Research paper is required.
An introduction to communication techniques, written and oral, which are effective in a professional setting. Contemporary topics will involve students with important technologies, including desktop publishing, electronic communications, word processing, and the use of video. Special attention paid to leadership styles. A study in some depth of a limited number of major writers from 1860 to 1960. Particular attention will be given to the aesthetic and humanistic movements in the literature of representative authors as Dickinson, Twain, James, Frost, Wharton, Faulkner, Whitman, O'Neill, Miller, and Hansberry.