ENG 095 College Writing (3 crs)
Review of basic writing skills, stressing the elements of clear
and effective writing. By placement; does not satisfy core curriculum requirement.

ENG/LIT 096 College Reading (3 crs)
Development of greater efficiency, comprehension, vocabulary and recall in reading college-level material. Lab work required.  By placement; does not satisfy core curriculum requirement. 

ENG 104 Composition Tutorial (1 cr)
A three hour per week tutorial for international students co-enrolled in ENG 105: Process of Composition.

ENG 105 Process of Composition (3 crs)
Elements of expository and persuasive essay writing; research techniques; revising prose for accuracy, precision and effective style. Core fulfilling. By placement.

ENG 110 Composition Seminar (3 crs)
Advanced essay writing; exposition and persuasion; research techniques; editing and revising prose for accuracy, precision and effective style for first-level writers. Core fulfilling. By placement.

ENG 220 Advanced Writing Techniques (3 crs)
Expands upon writing skills learned in core course work conducted in computer workshop environment. Frequent and varied writing activities fostering increased mastery of organizational and expressive skills and understanding the role of technology in writing. Emphasis on revision and editing strategies, rhetorical approaches, critical readings and audience adaptation with an aim toward increased eloquence. Prerequisites: ENG 105/110; sophomore standing.

ENG 224 Professional Speaking (3 crs)
Practice in preparing and presenting instructional, informative, persuasive and public relations speeches of a professional nature. Includes use of multi-media tools. Prerequisites: ENG 105/110; sophomore standing.

Literature
Course Descriptions

LIT 120 Literary Foundations: Methods & Genres (3 crs)
Study and development of the techniques of literary study using the genres of fiction, poetry and drama. Includes experience in the application of literary critical methods. Prerequisite: ENG 096; ENG 105/110.

LIT 250 Literary Explorations: Conflicts & Culture (3 crs)
Examination of selected topics within literary studies, using the tools of literary analysis established in LIT 120. Course topics fit within the organizing rubric of: Community and Discord in Literature; Ethics and Values in Literature; Past and Future in Literature. Prerequisite: ENG 105/110; ENG 120.

LIT/WST 310 Women and Early Literature (3 crs)
Study of women’s contribution to literature from the Classical Period through the 18th Century. Addresses major issues and themes that concern women; examines how individual female authors confronted the prevailing literary and social attitudes of their times. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT/WST 312 Women and Modern Literature (3 crs)
Study of women’s contribution to literature from the 19th Century to the present day. Addresses major issues and themes that concern women; examines how individual female authors confronted the prevailing literary and social attitudes of their times. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 321 Studies in Poetry (3 crs)
Study of significant works by a variety of writers; some emphasis on context of writing and works as well as methodology and development of poetry. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 322 Studies in Drama (3 crs)
Study of significant plays from the early Greek to the contemporary stage, together with emphasis on tradition and innovation in dramatic technique. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 323 Studies in Fiction (3 crs)
Study of significant works by a variety of writers, including the development of the novel/novella/short story as genres, their narrative techniques and variety. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 325 Applied Literary Theory (3 crs)
Exploration, through analysis of literary works, of the relative effectiveness of selected literary theories. Includes reader-response, sociological, psychoanalytical and other criticisms. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 354 Shakespeare (3 crs)
Intense study of selected poems and plays, including tragedies, comedies and histories. Exploration of the dramatic, literary and cultural dimensions of Shakespeare’s art. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 386 Junior Literature Seminar (3 crs)
Intensive examination and discussion of a specific literary topic, author, or mode; research and formal writings, oral presentations on assigned topics. Prerequisite: completed literature core; junior standing or approval of department chair.

LIT 410 World Literature from Antiquity through the Renaissance (3 crs)
Study of major works of world literature, with attention to the development of literary genres. Selected excerpts will be chosen from among Gilgamesh, Iliad, Oedipus the King, Medea, Mahabharata, Aeneid, Metamorphoses, Song of Roland, Tale of Genji, Divine Comedy, Decameron, Thousand and One Nights, Sir Gawain and Don Quixote. In translation. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 411 Chaucer and the Medieval Period (3 crs)
Reading and study of The Canterbury Tales as well as selected works of other significant writers of the Medieval period such as Gower, De Pizan, Boethius, the Pearl Poet and Kempe. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 419 Literature of the English Renaissance (3 crs)
Context and works of selected literary figures such as Marvell, More, Marlowe, Sidney, Wroth, Lanier, Donne, Jonson and Milton. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 420 Early American Literature (3 crs)
Study of the historical context and writers of the Colonial and Revo-lutionary era of American literature. Authors may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Sewall, Rowlandson, Crevecoeur, Franklin, among others. Literary forms such as poetry, diaries, sermons and political pamphlets included. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 421 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature in England (3 crs)
Study of novels (including the autobiographical, epistolary, experimental, sentimental, libertine and Gothic), narrative prose and poetry (including satire), plays and essays. Works selected from Dryden, Congreve, Swift, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne and others. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 422 Eighteenth-Century World Literature (3 crs)
Study of major works of world literature in the European tradition, with attention to dominant international literary movements and historically representative sub-genres. Authors selected may include Prevost, Swift, Voltaire, Fielding, Rousseau, Goethe, Laclos, Lessing, Schiller, Diderot and others. In translation. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 423 The Romantic Movement in England (3 crs)
Extensive coverage of the poetry and critical works of representative Romantic figures, chosen from Blake, Baillie, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Hemans, Keats and others. Attention to the historical context, major themes, verse experimentation and critical theory from the era. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 424 Nineteenth-Century World Literature (3 crs)
Study of major works of world literature in the European tradition, with attention to dominant international literary movements and historically representative sub-genres. Authors selected may include Pushkin, Hoffmann, Gogol, Balzac, Flaubert, Galdos, Ibsen, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov. In translation. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 425 Literature of the Victorian Period
in England (3 crs)
Works of some of the chief literary artists of the era (selected from Tennyson, Carlyle, the Brontes, Arnold, the Brownings, Dickens, Eliot, Newman, Ruskin, Hardy, the Rossettis, Wilde and others) set within their milieu. Lyric poetry, the novel and the essay are stressed genres. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 426 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (3 crs)
Study of the literary figures and movements from the romanticism of Poe, Hawthorne and Melville through the realism and naturalism of Dickinson, Twain, Gilman, James, Wharton, Crane and Drieser. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 428 Twentieth-Century World Literature (3 crs)
Survey of dominant trends in world literature, with attention to the increasing diversity of literary methods and sub-genres. Authors selec-ted may include Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Rilke, Solzhenitsyn, Robbe-Grillet, Lorca, Brecht, Achebe, Soyinka, Kawabata, Borges, Marquez and Fuentes. In translation. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 429 Literature Between the Wars (3 crs)
Study of the historical context, major themes and critical theory of the Modern era in British and American literature including such authors as Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Woolf, O’Neill, as well as authors who rejected the Modernist credo. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 430 Contemporary Literature (3 crs)
Study of interpretative literature produced from the 1960’s to the present. In order to address the proliferation of voices and the blurring of genre lines characteristic of the contemporary period, the focus of the course on particular genres or authors will necessarily change from semester to semester. Prerequisite: completed literature core.

LIT 486 Senior Literature Thesis (2 cr)
A major project requiring extended research and writing. The project requires a written proposal, public presentation of the project’s results and an acceptable written document at the conclusion of the course. All phases will be supervised and evaluated by a member of the literature faculty. Prerequisite: LIT 386.

Fine Arts
Course Descriptions

FAS 105 Fine Arts Exploration (3 crs)
Every WJU student must complete a minimum of 3 credit hours of Fine Arts before graduation. “Fine Arts Explorations” is an introductory course offered in several sections each semester; each section focuses on a different area of Fine Arts (Film, Theater, Music, Visual Art). Coursework includes interactive assignments and attendance at public performance/exhibitions.

In addition, the Division of Fine Arts offers numerous Fine Arts courses each year, including Acting, Modern Dance, Jazz Dance, Ballet, Drawing, Voice, Children's Theater and Theater and Social Issues, among others. See the current schedule of courses or contact the Director of Fine Arts, Dan Shea (dshea@wju.edu ) for current listings of fine arts electives.

Professional Communications
Course Descriptions

PWR Core

PWR 135 Communicating in the 21st Century (3 crs)

Survey of essential concepts and skills for effective communication in media, business and personal life with emphasis on writing with the new computer technologies. Focus on using new communications technologies in ways that foster fuller development of the human person. This course assumes knowledge of computers and word processing. Students will produce a resume, simple Web site and a simple multimedia presentation for their portfolios. Required for English and Professional Communications majors and recommended for all who want to improve their computer literacy, word processing, interpersonal communication and Internet skills. No prerequisite.

PWR 226 Introduction to Visual Design and Desktop Publishing (3 crs)

Fundamentals and techniques of visual design, typography and page layout using software such as QuarkXPress. Srudents will complete several portfolio projects useful for job applications in communcations, graphics, marketing, management and training. Famailiarity with computer,  e-mail, wordprocessing and the Internet is required.

PWR 240 Writing for Media (3 crs)

Survey of fundamentals necessary for writing in various media including print and broadcast journalism, public relations, advertising and multimedia authoring. This course is designed to help students interested in communication and wanting to explore the wide range of oppurtunities available to professional writers. Writing intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in ENG 105/110 or permission of instructor.

PWR 251 Fundamentals of Reporting (3 crs)

Examination of and practice in the skills of gathering information and writing news and feature stories with precision, balance and insight. Emphasis on planning and writing strategies, conducting effective interviews and developing the power of observation and research necessary for accurate and vivid description and reporting. Students will produce several stories for their portfolios. Writing intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in ENG 105/110.

PWR 252 Codyediting and Layout (3 crs)

Fundamentals and techniques of computer-assisted editing and designing newspaper and magazine pages for clarity, accuracy and impact. Emphasis on a reader-centered approach to editing and page design that ensures that readers see and care. Students will produce several page design projects for their portfolios. Prerequisite: PWR 226 or permission of instructor.

PWR/CSC 253 Web and Multimedia Authoring (3 crs)

Introduction to the process of designing, writing and coding multimedia focusing on web page authoring and design. The course will begin with simple concept mapping and coding (HTML and Javascript). Emphasis on an audience-centered approach to planning, non-linear writing and web design that reflects the effective integration of writing and graphics. Course will include the documented development and design of several web sites. Writing intensive. Prerequisites: 2.0 or higher in ENG 105/110, PWR 135 and PWR 226, or permission of the instructor.

PWR/CSC 254 Interface Design (3 crs)

Emphasis on designing, authoring and managing more sophisticated websites focusing on site architecture, navigation schemes and interactivity. Students will make extensive use of the web authoring tools, graphic design tools and scripting (using Dreamweaver, Flash and Javascript). Course will include the documented development and design of several multimedia web products. Writing and graphic design intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in PWR 253 or permission of the instructor.

PWR 342 Media Ethics (3 crs)

Examination of the moral, social and legal issues facing writers, editors and graphic artists in a communications world characterized by complex and rapidly changing technologies and social conditions. Emphasis on identifying enduring personal virtues necessary to communicate in ways that respect human dignity, human endds and social justice. Prerequisite: second level of philosophy core or permission of instructor.

PWR 473, 474 Professional Communications Internships
(1 credit each semester)

Guided experience in an actual work environment related to the student's career goals. Minimum of 50 hours per internship. Student keeps log and submits for evaluation. Internships must be completed in different organizations and involove different types of writing. Majors required to take both internship courses; minors may select one internship. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in coursework which prepars the student for the type of writing that the internship will involve.

PWR 477, 478 Senior Seminar and Portfolio (2 crs)

In-depth examination of a current issue/trend in media, professional, or creative writing resulting in a documented media product and a related research paper focusing on the some writing issue connected with that product. The combined project requires a written proposal, public presentation of the project's results and an acceptable document at the end of the course. The student will use the final product as the centerpiece for a professional portfolio. Writing intensive. Prerequisite: senior standing in Professional Communications major.

Regular Day Class Electives:

PWR 242 Feature Writing (3crs)

Examination of and practice in methods of feature writing for newspapers magazines and multimedia. Emphasis on effective descriptive writing techniques that engage all the senses to make the reader see and care. Discussion of freelancing, developing ideas, working with editors and how to get published. Students will complete several portfolio projects. Writing intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in PWR 251 or permission of the instructor.

PWR 244 Public Relations Writing (3crs)

Study and practice in the kinds of writing required for effective public relations, including news releases, brochures, public service announcements, presentations and speeches and media kits. Writing intensive. Prerequisites: 2.0 or higher in ENG 105/110. PWR 240 and PWR 251 or permission of the instructor. In addition, MKT 211 and/or MKT 316 are encouraged.

PWR 245: Writing for Advertising (3crs)

Study and practice in advertising as a critical element of an organization's total marketing plan. Emphasis on developing consumer profiles, positioning strategies and creative work plans for advertisers as well as conducting proper research and creating effective visual designs and ad copy. Students ducument and produce ads for print, broadcast, outdoor and other media and also complete an advertising campaign for their portfolio. Writing intensive. Prerequisites: 2.0 or higher in ENG 105/110 and PWR 240 or permission of the instructor. Students are stongly encouraged to either have taken or be currently enrolled in PWR 226. In addition, MKT 211 and/or MKT 316 and encouraged.

PWR 246 Technical and Scientific Writing (3crs)

Introduces rhetorical and visual design principles as well as invention and collaborative practices for transforming technical and scientific information into a variety of documents for non-specialist audiences. Emphasis on short- and long-term, as well as individual and collaborative project management, Students will complete several portfolio projects. Writitng intensive.

PWR 321  Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop (3crs)

A collegial, collaborative atmosphere for learning to read, write and talk about poetry. Extensive reading to develop a sense of technique, especially metaphor. Journal-keeping, drafting exercises and consistent peer-aided revision of student poetry in once-a-week workshops and individual tutorials. Prerequisites: LIT 323 recommended or permission of instructor. Formal entrance application required.

PWR 323 Creative Writing: Ficition Workshop (3crs)

A collegial, collaborative atmosphere for learning to read, write and talk about fiction. Extensive reading to develop a sense of technique, especially characterization. Journal-keeping, drafting exercises and consistent peer-aided revision of student fiction in once-a-week workshops and individual tutorials. Prerequisites: LIT 323 recommended or permission of instructor. Formal entrance application required.

PWR 325 Image Editing (3crs)

Fundamentals and techniques of scanning and computer-aided image editing using software such as Adobe Photoshop. Students will complete several portfolio projects useful for job applications in communications, graphics, marketing, management and training. Familiarity with computer, e-mail and the Internet required.

PWR 327 Illustration (3crs)

Fundamentals and techniques of computer-aided illustration using software such as Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand. Students will complete several porfolio projects useful for job applications in communications, graphics, marketing, management and training. Familiarity with computer, e-mail and the Internet required.

PWR 347 Introduction to Legal Writing (3crs)

Introduces the basic tools of legal research and writing - the case method, court structure within with precedent and stare decisis operate, some civil procedure terminology, practice at reading and dissecting cases and an introduction to analyzing a closed universe legal problem (one not requiring legal research). Introduces writing basic office memoranda. Empahasis on clear, objective and accurate use of language in the kinds of documents required of law students and those whose careers require frequent interpretation of legal language and formats. Students will produce several portfolio examples of legal documents. Writing intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in ENG 105/110. Students are encouraged either to have taken or be concurrently enrolled in POS 330 Constitutional Law.

PWR 444 Advanced Public Relations (3crs)

Intensive study of the planning and writing skills necessary to put together systematic and effective public relations campaigns. Students will prepare an extensive campaign project for teir portfolio. Writing intensive. Prerequisites: 2.0 or higher in PWR 226, PWR 244, PWR251 AND PWR 252.

PWR 447 Advanced Legal Writing (3crs)

Further development of rhetorical and visual design principles necessary for communicating legal concepts and information to various legal audiences. Focus on open universe litigation documents such as trial and appelate briefs. Emphasis on legal research methods and the clear, concise and effective presentation of the law. Students will produce several portfolio examples of legal documents. Writing intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or better in PWR 347; students are encouraged either to have taken or be concurrently enrolled in POS 331 Civil Rights an Liberties Law.

PWR 451 Advanced Reporting (3crs)

Intensive study and practice of advanced newsgathering, writing and specialized reporting techniques as well as on news judgment. Writing intensive. Prerequisites: 2.0 or higher in PWR 251 and PWR 252.

PWR 453 Advanced Web Authoring (3crs)

Further development of concepts and skills needed to design, author and manage the development of advanced data-driven websites. Further exploration of advanced web authoring resources. Students will form a web authoring team and produces a major project for student portfolios. This course is particularly helpful for those interested in learning how to design e-commerce websites. Writing and graphic design intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in PWR 253/254 or permission of the instructor.

PWR 454 Advanced Multimedia Authoring (3crs)

Further development of concepts and skills needed to design, autho and manage the the development of multimedia projects. Further exploration of advanced authoring resources. Students will form a multimedia development team which will produce a major project for student portfolios. Writing and graphic design intensive. Prerequisite: 2.0 or higher in PWR 253/254 or permission of the instructor.

PWR/RST 460 Theology of Social Communications (3crs)

Study of the theology of social communications and its application to communications concepts and skills and communications work-including a critical evaluation of current trends in the reporting of religion and other religious communications. Writing intensive. Prerequisites: 2.0 or better in the completed English and theology cores or permission of instructor.

Courses Offered Through the Center for Professional & Graduate Studies:

PWR 248 Writing Successful Grant Proposals (3crs)

Learn how to identify promising grant prospects, research and prepare effecitve grant proposals and properly evaluate responses. This class will take you through the process of learning how to present your vision and needs and calibrate the story of your institution to fit the criteria of grant prospects. Students will prepare grant proposals for real prospects and obtain critique and advice from a jury of philanthropic judges. No prerequisites although excellent command of grammar and usage and strong writing skills are necessary to write successful grant proposals.