Communication Arts Courses Fall 2008

SEE ALSO course descriptions listed in the most current SNU Academic Catalog.

C W/MCOM-2313 Newswriting (Wilcox)
Learn how to write news stories, edit your writing, and analyze the stories you read in the paper every day.? Opportunity to write for campus publications.

ENGL-2933-01 Foundations for English Studies (Bracken & Weaver)
An introductory course for those who love to read literature.? You will learn the fundamentals of literary criticism and the techniques for writing papers for your upper division English courses.? (Meets an English CORE requirement)

ENGL 2401?? Advanced Reading Techniques (Hackler)
Are you going to graduate school?? Do you want to learn to read more quickly with more comprehension and better recall?? We will teach you recall techniques, eye movement analysis, and skimming strategies so that you can read more in less time.

ENGL 3143? Technical Communications (Case)
Learn how to write and produce documents and projects that will benefit you in your professional future! Perfect for business majors, ministry majors, science majors, sports information majors and many others. (Meets an English CORE requirement)

ENGL 3173 Survey of British Literature II (Bracken)
Make friends with Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austen, the Bronte sisters, Joyce, Woolf, Jhumpa, and compatriots.? Anglophiles will love this course, and so will those interested in British colonial literature from such places as India, Egypt, Africa and the Caribbean.?? (Meets an English CORE requirement)

ENGL 3193 Literary Field Studies: China (Poteet/Johnson)
Travel to China with us May 2007!? See the Great Wall, explore Beijing and Shanghai, visit the ancient capital of Xian with SNU students and faculty.? Learn Chinese culture in an 8 week class before you go. (GSE credit approved for Track III)

ENGL 3203 Sp St: Vietnam War, Film and Literature (Weaver)?
Read a sampling of the literary works that emerged from the Vietnam War, including memoirs, novels, and poems. View Vietnam War films and consider the transformations that occur in the adaptation of the written word to the screen.? (GSE credit approved for Track III)

ENGL 3223 Mythology (Hackler)
Learn how myth and mythmaking inform our visions of the world and our place in it.? Explore mythologies of the classical world and popular mythologies in interdisciplinary contexts.?(GSE credit approved for Track III)