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Public Relations Planning   (COM-374)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Introduces the components of a comprehensive public relations campaign: research, audience, identification, message construction, channel selection and evaluation. Working with clients, students create and write an entire program for a variety of challenges, including image change, new product or service introduction, information, recruitment, crisis management, employee relations, persuasion and others.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Learn the components of a comprehensive public relations campaign.
  • Compare several different types of public relations campaigns with regard to: audience identification.
  • Examine the variety of skills necessary for writing in the public relations campaign arena.
  • Analyze the ways in which written communication in public relations campaign writing has changed in the United States.
  • Assess the ways in which changes in technology have influenced the role of written communications in public relations campaign writing.
  • Recognize the challenges involved in public relations campaign writing.
  • Evaluate several examples of public relations campaign writing that you have written for clarity, accuracy, message construction and channel selection.
  • Plan a public relations campaign recognizing a problem and a solution that addresses the components and challenges learned.

 
Freelance Writing   (COM-410)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Nonfiction writing for today's periodical. Students learn how to analyze market needs, develop ideas suitable for publication, prepare manuscripts and market what has been written.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate competency in identifying strategies for finding lucrative markets and identify reasons for choices
  • Discuss these strategies and how they impact your ability to create successful queues
  • Make a plan for manifesting your strategies and ability to build Freelance Writing portfolio
  • Discuss the process of generating ideas and topics
  • Articulate and illustrate your knowledge of writing rules
  • Provide evidence of clear writing
  • Discuss and provide evidence of your knowledge of rules of grammar, punctuation and usage
  • Articulate your understanding of the learning process as a freelance writer
  • Illustrate your understanding of modes of writing
  • Illustrate your understanding of general purpose, form and content in writing
  • Provide evidence of your knowledge of resources and tools
 
Business Letter and Report Writing I   (ENG-216)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Basic writing skills used in day-to-day business writing including formal and informal types of writing such as e-mails, memoranda, business letters, job descriptions, acceptance letters, acknowledgment letters, and short reports. Addresses topics such as audience analysis and appropriate tone; as well as clarity of expression, organization, and strategies for prioritizing writing assignments.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Write emails, short reports, memoranda, job descriptions, and various types of letters including employment recommendation letters, acknowledgement and appreciation letters, letters of acceptance, customer order acknowledgements, letters requesting information as well as action letters granting claims and making adjustments by providing examples of each.
  • Demonstrate appropriate style and tone for the intended audience for each type of writing with a writing sample.
  • Demonstrate formal and informal writing illustrating appropriate tone and level of information for the situation and the audience with an example of each.
  • Create and format basic documents and letters used in business/office settings. Provide examples.
  • Illustrate a clear writing style for various types of letters and short reports with several examples.
  • Demonstrate organizational skills used in writing day-to-day business documents with an outline and the final written product.
  • Summarize how to prioritize writing tasks in an office setting.

 
Writing Poetry I   (ENG-243)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of fundamental poetry writing techniques including the use rhythm, rhyme, non-rhyme, meter (units of rhyme), sound metaphor, simile, arrangement, and order as well as rhyming verse, blank verse.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Write several poems demonstrating the use of fundamental poetry writing techniques.
  • Illustrate in these poems the use of accepted practices in poetry writing including rhythm, rhyme, meter, non-rhyme, sound, metaphor, image, simile, order, and arrangement in one or more poems.
  • Illustrate in these poems a variety of poetic forms including rhyming verse, blank verse, free verse, haiku, heroic couplets, the sonnet, the ode, the elegy, the pastoral, satiric verse, didactic verse, etc.
  • Describe and illustrate with examples how a poet expresses feelings, thoughts and perceptions through concrete images.
  • Discuss how content, form, and the overall effect of the poem are developed through the use of emotions, the imagination, ideas, meaning, sentiment, passion, power, sense expression, interpretation, beauty, dignity, freshness of expression, orderly arrangement, concreteness, and pleasure and provide illustrations with the poems you have written.
  • Compare and contrast two or more of the poems you have written discussing the considerations and choices made during the writing process.

 
Basic Editing I   (JOU-190)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Developing news judgment, copy editing, headline writing, stylebook usage and photo editing.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate editing copy, photo editing, writing headlines and picture captions.
  • Discuss ethical issues in editing copy, photo editing, writing headlines and picture captions.
  • Describe the impact of technology on editing copy, photo editing, writing headlines and picture captions

 
Feature Writing   (JOU-213)   3 credits  
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Course Description
All aspects of writing personality profiles and of writing critical reviews, columns and/or sports features.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Knowledge of the history of feature articles.
  • Ability to distinguish between news and feature article writing.
  • Practice in writing feature articles.

 
Public Relations Writing and Editing   (JOU-280)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of public relations writing, using a journalistic style, in the planning and preparation of such public relations materials as press releases, features, executive letters and memos, blogs, speeches, position papers, fact sheets, public service announcements, annual reports, Web site pages, video scripts, and other external and internal communications. Students will also be able to demonstrate how to best target and time messages to support public relations solutions.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Compare several different types of public relations writing with regard to writing style, length, format, and target audience.
  • Examine the variety of skills necessary for effective public relations writing.
  • Analyze the ways in which written communication in public relations has changed as the field has developed in the United States.
  • Assess the ways in which changes in technology have influenced the role of written communications in public relations.
  • Discuss the roles of timing and targeting messages in public relations practice.
  • Evaluate several examples of public relations writing that you have written for clarity, accuracy, fairness, appropriate style, and writing skill.
  • Construct a public relations problem with a solution that incorporates at least five forms of written public relations materials.

 
Sports Reporting   (JOU-313)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Principles of writing and reporting on issues relating to sports.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate sports writing and reporting
  • Analyze sports writing and reporting techniques to news writing and reporting

 
News Writing   (JOU-352)   3 credits  
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Course Description
News Writing is an overview of journalistic techniques such as news gathering, interviewing, feature writing, editorial writing, and writing for print and broadcast. Students will gain understanding of the differences in methods of presenting these styles through a consideration of the ethical and legal implications.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate an ability to write in a variety of journalistic styles, including news writing, feature writing, editorial writing, and writing for print and broadcast.
  • Write a basic news story for print and broadcast.
  • Demonstrate an ability to edit and revise your own or another's writing.
  • Generate a summary lead.
  • Generate effective interview questions and then integrate and attribute source material after conducting the interview.
  • Demonstrate an ability to write in the journalistic style, using concise language.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of legal and ethical principles that guide responsible media coverage.

 
Report Writing for Police   (AOJ-115)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The student will be able to demonstrate how to assist students in writing effective narrative police reports with clear, concise writing when answering the questions "Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How." The student will also be able to address topics such as the purpose of police reports and how to take complete field notes for an investigation.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the purpose and uses of narrative police reports.
  • Explain the importance of taking complete field notes during an investigation.
  • Explain the purpose of answering the questions, "Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How" when composing a narrative police report and analyze their importance to an investigation.
  • Describe the basic elements of an effective narrative police report and illustrate this with a completed report written by the student.
  • Illustrate clear, concise, accurate, and grammatically correct use of language with a police report that has been written, proofread and edited by the student.

 
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