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This course is designed to help adult learners beginning their university studies to achieve academic success. Students will explore learning theories, communication strategies, and personal management skills. Adult learners will develop strategies for achieving success in school and work. Students will also be introduced to the University's institutional outcomes and learning resources.

This course presents adult development theory and links theoretical concepts of life and learning through a process of psychometric assessment and reflection. Both classical and contemporary adult development theories are examined. These theories then provide the paradigm for self-analysis and life learning, including a plan for personal, professional and academic learning.

This course is designed to provide an overview of the history, professional traditions, and roles and practices of the news media in a democracy. Topics include journalistic reporting, how news is defined, ethics, emerging trends, online reporting and news writing basics.

This course will focus on the gathering, evaluating and writing of the news in the print and electronic media. Students will hone basic skills and become aware of current trends including journalism, convergence and the importance of fairness and objectivity.

Ethics in journalism begins with an overview of ethical foundations and philosophy with a focus on case studies in the media and the application of ethical standards and decision making to issues faced by journalists on a daily basis.

Intermediate Composition Is Designed For Students Who Have Some Experience With College-level Writing But Want To Develop Their Ability To Write. The Goal Of This Course Is To Help Students Learn Techniques For Writing Effective Narrative, Reflective, Analytical, And Research Essays. These Techniques Include The Effective Use Of Specific Details To Engage And Persuade Readers, Methods Of Organization That Enable Readers To Follow A Line Of Thinking, And Strategies For Editing Sentences For Clarity And Conciseness. Prerequisites: Eng 121 And Eng 122 Or Equivalents.

This course will examine the ways in which technology has transformed the journalistic landscape to a 24-hour news cycle with digital content acquisition and distribution. It will explore the professional and technical challenges of producing multimedia news in this environment.

This course is designed to provide the principles and techniques of good writing for the mass media with an emphasis on accuracy of information, presentation, clarity, precision and efficiency in use of the language. Additionally, we will focus on the standards of writing for the Web which differ substantively from the traditional media. Prerequisite: ENG 325.

This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the major issues facing global journalism. It focuses on the social, cultural, and governmental aspects of the international media and their relationship to journalism from the perspective of a democratic system.

The study of the law of journalism and mass communication is a vast field. This course provides a broad overview of the rule of law, the First Amendment, disruptive speech, libel, protecting privacy, reporter's privilege and electronic media Regulation.

Students in this course will apply journalistic skills to opinion writing for editorial pages. It will also provide tools for evaluating critical thinking and argumentation for evaluating editorial writing. Additionally, students will learn the skills and requirements for feature writing. Prerequisite: ENG 325.

This course teaches students research methods of utility and analysis in journalism with a focus on survey research, electronic database searching, government sites, and the evaluation of data sets in journalism research studies.

This course is designed to aid students in determining how the media shape the context of American government and politics. Students will study American political journalism theory, current practice, convergence, and emerging technological change and their impact on public opinion and policy.

Students will demonstrate mastery of the programmatic outcomes of the journalism major by creating an electronic portfolio of work completed during the program and by adding newly developed material that showcase professional journalistic skills.