Track description

Course descriptions

Course offerings 2009-2010

EDITING, WRITING, AND MEDIA
(a New English Major that begins Fall 2009)
Curriculum and requirements: overview

3000-level: CORE REQUIREMENTS

Students must take all 3 courses (9 hours).*

  1. Rhetoric
  2. Writing and Editing in Print and Online
  3. History of Text Technologies

4000-Level: ADVANCED REQUIREMENTS

Students must take at least 3 courses (9 hours) from the following list.

  1. Visual Rhetoric in the Digital Age
  2. Issues in Publishing
  3. Editing: Manuscripts, Documents, Reports
  4. Rhetorical Theory and Practice
  5. History of Illustrated Texts: Illuminated Manuscripts to Graphic Novels
  6. Advanced Writing and Editing

INTERNSHIP IN EDITING / PUBLISHING

(3 hours)

  1. Internship in Editing

3 ELECTIVES IN ENGLISH COURSES ABOVE 2000 LEVEL

(9 hours)

4000-Level: SENIOR SEMINAR: What is a Text?

  1. Senior Seminar: What is a Text?

* It is recommended that the Core Requirements be taken before the Advanced Requirements. Core Requirements are not recommended for first-year students.