This course will focus on specific genres, directors, themes or eras in film as comprehensively as possible through critique and analysis of film directly and consideration of cultural context and critical analysis and academic evaluation of said theme. The topic of the course will be a revolving one.

This course gives students the tools to design, write, and present primary communication research in both academic and professional contexts. Developing the literacy to interpret and evaluate published research will also be stressed. The research methods introduced will include experiments, surveys, content analysis, focus groups, interviews, and participant observation.

Focus on how the discipline of public relations evolved, and how public attitudes are influenced by the media. Students will learn to recognize ethical and legal implications of media situations.

A study of the style and forms of business and professional writing with emphasis on direct sentence patterns and clear language. (Offered only in the accelerated format.)

Introduction to writing center scholarship, theory, and practice. Students will explore how writers engage with each other and the writing process, and will become familiar with ways of responding to writers in one-to-one contexts. Open to those who already work or wish to work in the Immaculata Writing Center as a Writing Assistant, as well as to students interested in broader issues of writing studies and teaching at the secondary and college levels.

Issues of race, gender, class, and disability and the ways these impact the teaching of writing are introduced. Students learn and contrast disciplinary conventions and features of academic genres to understand how embedded values inform writing style. Through exploring how tutor and writer identities are implicated in the tutorial and examining language from various sociolinguistic, multi-literacy, and translingual perspectives, students learn how to navigate differences to collaborate with writers in meaningful ways.

An introduction to the range of career opportunities and responsibilities within the field of professional writing as learned through article presentations, writing workshops, and discussion/research on current newsworthy issues. This course is geared to English and Communication majors, interested in exploring various types of professional writing as it exists in the current media landscape and is designed to address myriad and varied writing styles, culminating in a revised portfolio of all efforts that the writing students have accomplished.

The course will provide information on basic structure, terminology, and literary history and significance of poetry as an art form as students begin the process of crafting their own poetic works.

Development of communication techniques through speech writing and delivery. This course helps to ease communication apprehension, organize speech material appropriately, and develop verbal and nonverbal techniques for delivery.

This course will address the intersection of print journalism with the digital world and all of its complications and ethical implications contained therein while still assiduously pursuing the story