Humanities and Sciences

This course emphasizes critical skills in writing, reading, and thinking. The student will develop skills in writing unified, coherent, well-developed essays using correct grammar and effective sentence structure. Non-fiction, fiction, research, and poetry are explored as uses of the writing process.

This course stresses oral communication skills. It demonstrates how the use of reasoning, research, evidence, and self-confidence leads to effective speaking. Students learn to give, listen to, analyze, and critique oral communication.

Students develop their communications skills in the area of unique and alternative solutions, creative ideas and brainstorming techniques. Creativity is a process of combining and recombining ideas and this course gives the student the tools to deliberately “turn on” their creativity, to produce and connect ideas for meaningful and useful purposes. Creative processes and the various stages of the processes are reviewed, experienced and further developed.

An educated person needs to know how to communicate in the language of business. This general education course will introduce students to such subjects as cover letters, memos, reports, grant proposals, proof reading, memo writing and billing communications.

This seminar course focuses on different theoretical, conceptual or thematic approaches to examine specific communication issues. Course work includes readings, lectures, discussions, and papers.