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MANE 2960 - Topics in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or Engineering Physics
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 4960 - Topics in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or Engineering Physics
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6960 - Topics in Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or Engineering Physics
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATP 6960 - Topics in Optimization
Advanced methods and/or applications in optimization. Possible topics include stochastic programming, learning theory, cone programming, optimization of medical treatment, and network flows.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: vary with topics and/or instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MATH 6490 - Topics in Ordinary Differential Equations
Mathematical foundations and/or applications of ordinary differential equations. Possible topics include: stability and chaos in dynamics, mathematical methods of classical mechanics, stochastic differential equations, and soliton equations. Listing of topics offered to date.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Vary with topic.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 4
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MATH 6590 - Topics in Partial Differential Equations
Mathematical foundation and/or applications of partial differential equations. Possible topics include soliton theory and applications, wavelets and PDEs, scattering theory, hyperbolic conservation laws.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: vary with topic.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 4
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PHIL 2960 - Topics in Philosophy
Experimental courses on subjects to be announced in advance.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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PHIL 4940 - Topics in Philosophy
Experimental courses on subjects to be announced in advance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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PHYS 1960 - Topics in Physics
Credit Hours: 1
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PHYS 2960 - Topics in Physics
Credit Hours: 4
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PHYS 4960 - Topics in Physics
Credit Hours: 4
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PHYS 6960 - Topics in Physics
Credit Hours: Variable
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PSYC 4960 - Topics in Psychology
An advanced course concerned with selected topics in psychology.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PSYC 1200 or permission of instructor.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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STSH 2960 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Credit Hours: 4
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STSH 4960 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Credit Hours: 4
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STSH 6960 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 2960 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 4960 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Credit Hours: 4
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STSS 6960 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Selected topics.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 1960 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology/ Archaeology, History, Political Science, or Sociology
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2960 - Topics in the Arts
Experimental courses offered for one or two terms as the general program requires.
Credit Hours: 2 to 4
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ARTS 4960 - Topics in the Arts
Credit Hours: 3 to 4
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WRIT 1960 - Topics in Writing
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 2960 - Topics in Writing
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 4960 - Topics in Writing
Credit Hours: 4
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ASTR 1530 - Tour of the Solar System
A survey of the solar system based on recent results from ground-based observations and space probes. Topics to be covered include: the sun, moon, Venus, Mars, the giant planets, comets, and the search for life in the solar system. If ASTR 1530 is taken as a 1-credit course, it will be graded satisfactory/unsatisfactory, and it cannot be counted towards the Institute’s baccalaureate requirement of 24 credits in the sciences. If ASTR 1530 is taken as o two credit course, it will be graded in the conventional manner. If ASTR 1510 and ASTR 1530 are both taken as graded two-credit courses, they may be counted together as one four-credit elective for nonscience majors.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 1 or 2
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CIVL 6270 - Traffic Control and Simulation
Topics on traffic control systems such as signals and ramp metering; sensor-aided and data-oriented traffic modeling; fundamentals and applications of microscopic traffic simulation. State of the art signal design and traffic simulation tools will be used throughout the class.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030, CIVL 4660 or their equivalents.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 4660 - Traffic Engineering
Basic characteristics of traffic flow, including driver, vehicle, volume, speed, delay, capacity, and accidents; traffic regulation and control, signs, markings, signals, and signal systems; basic traffic flow theory; study methods and analysis procedures to solve traffic engineering and control problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 4850 - Transatmospheric Vehicle Design
Introduces all elements of the Transatmospheric Vehicle (TAV) design process from proposal preparation through detailed specification and prototyping. Students are organized into design teams to develop a solution to a TAV system’s problem of practical interest by drawing on their background in aerospace engineering science, machine design, and manufacturing methods. Topics include problem definition and requirement analysis, design specifications, concept development, reliability, consideration of alternative solutions, materials considerations, engineering prototyping, and presentation skills. Writing-intensive assignments help develop communication skills.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6610 - Transonic Aerodynamics
Introduction to the equations of inviscid compressible flow; expansion procedure for airfoils in transonic flow and the Karman-Guderley equation; transonic-shock jump relations; the hodograph equations for transonic flow, with elementary applications; lift and drag integrals; transonic far fields; axially symmetric flow.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 6550 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CHME 4010 - Transport Phenomena I
An introductory course in transport phenomena covering fluid statics, and one-dimensional diffusive processes including laminar flow, heat conduction and mass diffusion. Course focuses on developing the equations of change, introducing sum-of-resistance concepts and couple fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer problems. The concept of extended surfaces as a means of enhancing transport process is included. The course introduces numerical simulation concepts for solving simple, one-dimensional transport problems. Credit not allowed for both this course and ENGR 2250.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 2400.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CHME 4020 - Transport Phenomena II
A continuation of CHME-4010. Course includes topics on multi-dimensional transport processes, potential, boundary layer and turbulent fluid flows, convective heat and mass transfer processes, friction factors and drag in and around solid objects, heat and mass exchangers, and radiation heat transfer. The course extends the use of numerical methods to apply to multidimensional problems, convective heat and mass transfer problems and the simulation of more complicated fluid flows including turbulence approximations. Credit not allowed for both this course and ENGR-2250.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH-2400 and CHME 4010.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CIVL 6260 - Transportation Algorithms
Quantitative tools for transportation systems analysis. Review of basic optimization techniques, including: Frank-Wolfe, projection algorithms, among others. Topics include: shortest path algorithms, equilibrium traffic assignment formulation and solution approaches, demand elasticity, and stochastic user equilibrium. Computer applications will be stressed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 4570 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 6230 - Transportation Economics
Review of economic concepts and their application to transportation. Economic basis of transportation demand. Estimation of aggregate and disaggregate demand functions. Value of time. Supply functions. Cost functions, production functions. Transportation externalities. Valuation techniques. Cost/benefit analysis and multi-criteria approaches.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CIVL 2030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 4640 - Transportation System Planning
Introduction to the analysis and planning of transportation systems. Study of the basic interaction between transportation supply and demand. Role of transportation systems analysis in the social, environmental, and policy making. Trip generation. Trip distribution. Mode split. Traffic Assignment. Computer applications. (Meets with CIVL 6250 Transportation System Planning.) Students cannot obtain credit for this course and CIVL 6250.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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CIVL 6250 - Transportation Systems Planning
The analysis and planning of transportation systems. Study of the basic interaction between transportation supply and demand. Role of transportation systems analysis in social, environmental, and policy making. Trip generation. Trip distribution. Mode split. Traffic Assignment. Computer applications. Students cannot obtain credit for this course and CIVL 4640.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CIVL 2030 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6730 - Tribology
A basic course in tribology that covers both the fundamental and applied aspects of the subject. Content includes viscometry, the Reynolds equation, thrust and journal bearings (including design), thermal effects, dynamic loading and instability of bearings, rolling contact bearings, dry bearings, and theories of wear. This course includes design principles and data and is basic to other courses offered in tribology.
When Offered: Fall term odd-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 5080 - Turbomachinery
Representation of performance of turbomachines; mechanism of energy transfer; factors limiting design and performance including surge, choking, and cavitation; two-and three-dimensional flow phenomena; performance analysis including multistage effects and off-design performance.
When Offered: Offered biannually.
Credit Hours: 3
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MANE 6530 - Turbulence
Navier-Stokes equations, linear stability, vorticity and its origin, transition in wall-bounded and free-shear flows, statistics and Reynolds averaging, homogeneous turbulence, coherent structures, laboratory methods for study of turbulence, including turbulence measurements and turbulence modeling.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MANE 4800 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4570 - Typography
This course teaches the principles of typesetting text effectively for hypothetical and real-worl communication. Students practice selecting typefaces, point-sizes, leading, line-length, color, justification, layouts, kerning and tracking for printed and digitized type. An RPI-sponsored, entrepreneurial component allows student teams to conduct typographic makeovers for real-world clients and individual students to explore typographics innovation for real-world audiences.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 2610.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6570. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6570 - Typography
This course teaches the principles of typesetting text effectively for hypothetical and real-world communication. Students practice selecting typefaces, point-sizes, leading, line-length, color, justification, layouts, kerning and tracking for printed and digitized type. An RPI-sponsored, entrepreneurial component allows student teams to conduct typographic makeovers for real-world clients and individual students to explore typographic innovation for real-world audiences.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4570.
Credit Hours: 3
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MATP 4980 - Undergraduate Project in Mathematical Programming, Probability, and Mathematical Statistics
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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MATH 4980 - Undergraduate Project in Mathematics
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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CHEM 2950 - Undergraduate Research
Hands-on research in a faculty research laboratory.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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PSYC 4990 - Undergraduate Thesis
Students conduct original scholarly projects: original research, theoretical or analytical reviews of the literature, or computer simulations. Working either alone or in groups, students prepare written reports relating to this project, under the supervision of a faculty member. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: permission of a supervising faculty member.
When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3 to 6
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COMM 4820 - Usability Testing
In this course, students will examine and practice several methods of formal usability testing. Classes will consist of classroom discussion of scenario-based testing methods and statistical analysis of data collected and of laboratory sessions in which students develop, conduct, record, and analyze usability tests.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 4420, COMM 4770, or ITEC 2210.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6820. For COMM 6820, additional statistical analysis and a literature-based paper on a usability topic are required.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6820 - Usability Testing
In this course, students will examine and practice several methods of formal usability testing. Classes will consist of classroom discussion of scenario-based testing methods and statistical analysis of data collected and of laboratory sessions in which students develop, conduct, record, and analyze usability tests.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4820. For COMM 6820, additional statistical analysis as part of each assignment and a literature-based paper on a usability topic are required.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4770 - User-Centered Design
Explore how users get involved in design: as specifiers of requirements, as evaluators, as sounding boards, and as collaborators. We will gather requirements, design to meet those requirements, and evaluate our success.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 4420 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6770; students taking COMM 6770 will be assigned an additional project. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6770 - User-Centered Design
Explore how users get involved in design: as specifiers of requirements, as evaluators, as sounding boards, and as collaborators. Students will gather requirements, design to meet those requirements, and evaluate their success.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: COMM 4420 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4770; students taking COMM 6770 will be assigned an additional project. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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LITR 2450 - Utopian Literature
An exploration of the use of fiction to propagate ideas about ideal or nightmarish societies. This course examines the artistic techniques employed in this distinct tradition and the unusual interplay between fiction and reality that this popular genre represents. Students work toward the design of their own utopian scheme in short story or other form. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall term alternate years.
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 6400 - Vacuum Techniques
Principles and practice of producing, measuring, and using pressures from atmospheric down to 10-15 atmospheres. Gas kinetics and flow of gases at low pressures. Basic vacuum system calculations. System design and leak detection. Physical and chemisorption of gases. Generation of clean surfaces and study of reactions on them.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSH 6020 - Values and Policy
This course examines the ways in which policy decisions are influenced by values and the ways in which values and value issues are affected by policy decisions. Normative concepts and theories including theories of social justice, the role of individual autonomy, democratic process, and paternalism are examined for their implications for social policies. Case studies of particular policy controversies are used.
When Offered: Spring term annually .
Credit Hours: 3
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MGMT 4540 - Venture Capital Finance
This course covers the theory and practice of venture capital financing of entrepreneurial firms. Topics to be discussed include the structure and governance of venture capital funds, venture capital financial contracting, valuation of entrepreneurial firms, staging, syndication, capital structure, and exits (IPOs, acquisitions, secondary sales, buybacks and liquidations). International differences in venture capital markets will also be studied.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MGMT 2320.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MANE 4610 - Vibrations
Free and forced linear vibrations of damped and undamped mechanical and electrical systems of n degrees of freedom. Continuous system vibration. Manual and computer methods of finding natural frequencies. Self-and nonself-adjoint problems. Eigenfunction expansion. Integral transforms. Methods of approximating natural frequencies: Rayleigh, Rayleigh-Ritz, Ritz-Galerkin, Stodola, Holzer, Myklestad, matrix iteration. Perturbation techniques. Stability criteria.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 2090 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4460 - Visual Design: Theory and Application
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical use of graphics as a form of visual communication. Discussions include topics such as the psychology of visual perception, design theory, creative process, formatted text, and graphics. Students have an opportunity to put theory into practice using computer graphics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 2610 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6560. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6560 - Visual Design: Theory and Application
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical use of graphics as a form of visual communication. Discussions include such topics as visual perception, design theory, formatted text, and graphics. Students have an opportunity to put theory into practice using computer graphics software.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4460. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses. For graduate students, one additional assignment will be required and their work will be evaluated at a higher level.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 4660 - Visual Literacy
This course examines the notion of visual literacy—the ability to create effective visual layouts and analyze visual language for meaning. Through readings, discussions, and praxis exercises, students learn the lexicon of visual communication, how to critically evaluate a visual argument, and how to apply visual literacy theory to practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: COMM 2610.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6660. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6660 - Visual Literacy
This course examines the notion of visual literacy—the ability to create effective visual layouts and analyze visual language for meaning. Through readings, discussions, and praxis exercises, students learn the lexicon of visual communication, how to critically evaluate a visual argument, and how to apply visual literacy theory to practice.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4660. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6690 - VLSI Design Automation
Software design aids for specifying IC design. Covers a spectrum of logic entry, simulation, placement, routing, network extraction, verification, PG tape generation, and testing. Use of a tool set for 2 micron CMOS gate array design using an industrial foundry. Designs are actually fabricated.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 4770, ECSE 6700.
When Offered: Offered on sufficient demand.
Credit Hours: 3
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ECSE 6240 - VLSI Fabrication Technology
Fabrication technology for silicon and gallium arsenide integrated circuits with emphasis on sub-micron structures. Topics include epitaxy, diffusion, binary and ternary phase diagrams, grown and deposited oxides and nitrides, polysilicon and silicide technology, single-and multi-metal systems, plasma and chemical etching, ion milling photo, e-beam and X-ray lithography.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECSE 4250 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Credit Hours: 3
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COMM 2210 - Web and Database Programming
This course introduces the fundamentals for creating dynamic web page content generated using relational databases. This course is structured around Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and modern object-oriented programming languages like C#. Fundamental technologies like ADO.NET database connectivity, ASP.NET active page technology, XML, SOAP, and Web Services are examined. Students will construct actual non-trivial working web sites that employ databases from which dynamic content is generated.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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CISH 6510 - Web Application Design and Development
Students will learn approaches to the design, development, and maintenance of Web sites. Students will study software and information architectures for the Web, design techniques for distributed Web-based applications, and methods and tools for the creation and maintenance of Web sites. Study will encompass the major components of a Web site, including browsers and client applications, Internet protocols that link the client to the server, and server applications. Issues of performance, security, and usability will be examined.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CISH 4020 or CSCI 2300, prior experience with HTML and Java, ECSE 4670 and CSCI 4380 recommended.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ITEC 2110 - Web Systems Development
This course involves a study of the methods used to extract and deliver dynamic information on the World Wide Web. The course uses a hands-on approach in which students actively develop Web-based software systems. Additional topics include installation, configuration, and management of Web servers. Students are required to have access to a PC on which they can install software such as a Web server and various programming environments.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: CSCI 1200 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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MTLE 4410 - Welding Processes and Metallurgy
Fundamental principles, primary variables, and metallurgical changes associated with both fusion and nonfusion welding processes. Energy sources, rates and modes of energy transfer to the work, and distribution of energy in the work as these affect plastic softening or melting, plastic flow or solidification, post-solidification transformations, heat-affected zone microstructures, residual stresses and distortion, defect formation, and resultant properties; attention to the effects of weldment material, joint design, process, and procedural variables. Physical metallurgy is emphasized throughout. Practical examples highlight theory. Hands-on laboratory exercises complement lectures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGR 1600.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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STSS 6610 - Western Science and Technology Since the Industrial Revolution
A graduate, seminar-style review of the extant interpretations of the history of science and technology in Western Civilization since the mid-1700s. Emphasis on historiographic mastery. Preparation of a bibliographic essay tailored to the student’s concentration.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: graduate standing in STS or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered alternate years.
Credit Hours: 3
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LITR 2770 - Women Writers
A study of works of literature written by women, featuring such writers as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, and including the work of selected contemporary writers. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 4760 - Workshop
This course seeks to cultivate a more explicit understanding of –“what is material?”– through hands-on experiences with several standard building materials: concrete, steel, wood, etc. The basic characteristics of each material and a few basic techniques for working with each will be presented in discussion and demonstration. Students will work in groups with the given materials on several projects. The ambition of the course is for each student to attain an intuitive understanding of materials through direct experiences with them.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2520 - World Music
From “raves” to symphony hall, Indian film music to Tibetan chant, monster truck rallies to a mother’s lullaby, musical soundscapes surround us through all aspects of our daily lives. This course focuses on the study of music in or as culture. The exploration of music in human life will be comparative, using case studies from diverse world traditions and examining topics such as: ritual, media and technology, ethnicity/identity, music and dance, and musical transmission.
When Offered: Offered once annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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STSH 2530 - World War II
A topical survey of the origins, course of events, and results of World War II (1935-1945). The course covers the international economic crisis of the 1930s; the rise of totalitarianism in Europe; the wars in Ethiopia, China, and Spain; German military expansion; the war on the Eastern front and in the Pacific; the Mediterranean campaigns; naval operations; the Grand Alliance of the Allied powers; and the spread of communism in Europe and Asia.
When Offered: Offered annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 4160 - Writing about Science
This course introduces students to a set of principles that can guide their print and multimedia communication with readers who are not specialists in a particular scientific or technical field but who are affected by developments in those fields. Students will learn to use these principles in analyzing exemplary texts as well as in creating their own work.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: successful completion of any 1000- or 2000-level WRIT course or junior or senior status.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with WRIT 6160. Students cannot received credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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WRIT 6160 - Writing about Science
This course introduces students to a set of principles that can guide their print and multimedia communication with readers who are not specialists in a particular scientific or technical field but who are affected by developments in those fields. Students will learn to use these principles in analyzing exemplary texts as well as in creating their own work.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with WRIT 4160. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 4630 - Writing and Directing for Video
The course introduces students to the art of writing and directing short videos, with an emphasis on generating ideas, and realizing them in a well developed final project. Major theories and principles are studied through a comparative analysis of scripts and films. Students learn to work with actors, write their own scripts, and direct videos. Two final projects – a script and a video – will integrate all of the elements covered in class. Lecture/Practicum.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: one 2000-level video and one 2000-level writing course, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Offered on availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 4380 - Writing and Response
This course explores effective strategies for talking with others about oral presentations and written texts. Practice in consulting is grounded in theory and research in composition studies, reader-response, and tutoring. Students also study their own writing and reading processes through reflection and discussion. Those who complete the course with a grade of A- or A may apply to work as writing consultants in the Center for Communication Practices.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 6380. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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COMM 6380 - Writing and Response
This course explores effective strategies for talking with others about oral presentations and written texts. Practice in consulting is grounded in theory and research in composition studies, reader-response, and tutoring. Students also study their own writing and reading processes through reflection and discussion. Those who complete the course with a grade of A- or A may apply to work as writing consultants in the Center for Communication Practices.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross-listed with COMM 4380. Students cannot take both courses for credit.
Credit Hours: 3
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WRIT 1110 - Writing for Classroom and Career
This course emphasizes written, visual, and oral communication strategies that will help students succeed in both academic and professional contexts. Principal assignments are based on types of writing required in school and on the job: reporting, evaluating, taking a position, and making a proposal (orally and in writing). Written assignments will include visual elements such as headings, charts/graphs, and page or screen design. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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