Summer 2013 Offered Coures

Shook
ENGL 6890/7890 - Visualizing Information

In this class we will investigate the theory and practice of presenting information through the use of illustrations (as opposed to charts and graphs).  In the theory segment, we’ll read and discuss (lots of discussion) how people perceive illustrations, how they make sense of them, and how problems can arise when illustrations are used to transmit information. In the practice segment, we’ll produce illustrations using cameras, manipulate them, and use them as the basis for informing documents. Only the most basic of camera and computer equipment is necessary (a phone camera will do) as the emphasis is on the process rather than the quality of the finished product.

McLaughlin
English 6470/7470 - Marketing Documents
This course will focus on the world of marketing documents, including customer analysis, advertising, both print and on-line, and the basics of proposal writing.  It will bring together a variety of disciplines in order to understand the process by which companies communicate with customers.

Sowder

Can be taken as ENGL 6883, Poetry Writing Workshop, or ENGL 6884, Nonfiction Writing Workshop

Writing Poetry and Prose About the Natural World.

Writing Poetry and Prose about the Natural World focuses on learning strategies for opening one’s creativity through writing about the natural world, as well as on strategies for shaping, developing, and refining one’s writing into compelling nature essays and poems.  The classroom experience will combine the examination of the work of published writers, studying and practicing writing strategies, individual writing time (both in the classroom and outside), conducting research about the natural world, sharing work in large and small workshop critique,meeting individually with the instructor, and learning and practicing revision. The course should result in the production of one finished essay or a series of five to seven substantial poems. The methods and strategies practiced in this workshop are also designed to be useful to participants who are educators themselves and wish to replicate them in their own classroom. Graduate students will produce a significantly larger amount of creative work at a more advanced level and will take a more active role in the class, as in leading class discussions of both published work and student work in large group workshops, introducing course materials, teaching particular writing strategies, and facilitating small-group workshops. 

 

McNeil

Fife Workshop

Topic is "Vampires: from Folklore to Fandom".  We'll be looking at the original folk vampire's transformation into a literary and popular form, and the way that people engage that idea now with fandom and subcultures.  Dr. Heather Joseph-Witham (of early Mythbusters fame) will be our guest speaker.