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• COMM 110: Effective Speaking

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course helps students build confidence in preparing and delivering informative and persuasive speeches. Topics include subject selection, audience analysis, research, organization, and use of voice and body in speech delivery. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 6 or better or COMP107 (C or better)
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• COMM 110H: Effective Speaking (Honors section)

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course helps students build confidence in preparing and delivering informative and persuasive speeches. Topics include subject selection, audience analysis, research, organization, and use of voice and body in speech delivery. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 6 or better or COMP107 (C or better); admission to the Honors at Bucks program
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• COMM 111: Media and Society

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  Students examine the relationships between technology, industries, content, and users active in modern media. All students, particularly those who specialize in communication, multimedia, and journalism, build skills in media analysis, research, and writing through this college-level course.
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• COMM 215: Intercultural Communication

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  Students develop cross-cultural competency by examining how different cultural backgrounds communicate based on the value systems, worldviews, and narratives that ground them. The course emphasizes major demographic and societal shifts occurring in the 21st century resulting in growing diversity and interconnectedness throughout the world. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 6 or better or COMP107 (C or better)
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• COMM 240: Persuasive Communication

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  This course helps students build skill in analysis, writing, and communication of persuasive messages. Topics include: the theoretical premises currently operating in the field of persuasion, research and analysis of persuasive messages, preparing and delivering persuasive messages through a variety of channels. Prerequisite:    Completion of COMM111 with at least a C or better
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• COMP 085: Composition Support Seminar

  1.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  The Composition Support Seminar directly supports the learning objectives of the linked composition course in which the student is concurrently enrolled, by providing additional support and instruction to enhance student success. Prerequisite:    Permission of the Department of Language & Literature
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• COMP 090: Basic Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  By writing short compositions, through a process of pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing, students improve both grammar and usage and composition development and organization. Course readings serve as sources and models for writing. This course prepares students for subsequent composition courses. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 2 or AESL101 (C or better) or permission of the Department of Language and Literature
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• COMP 107: Introduction to Academic Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  To prepare students for COMP110, this course emphasizes paragraph development in academic, text-based essay assignments. Instructors guide students through the writing process, which requires critical thinking and decision-making in the use of evidence, sources, and rhetorical modes for effective paragraphs and essays. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 4 or better or COMP090 (C or better)
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• COMP 108: Introduction to Academic Reading & Writing

  4.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  To prepare students for COMP110, this course emphasizes academic, text-based, themed reading and writing assignments. Instructors guide students through the reading and writing process, which requires critical thinking and decision-making in the use of evidence, sources, and rhetorical modes for effective paragraphs and essays. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 4 or better or COMP090 (C or better); and Initial Reading Placement Test score of 2 or better
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• COMP 110: English Composition I

  3.00 Credits

  Bucks County Community College

  
  English Composition I emphasizes the systematic study of writing effective expository prose and argumentation, stressing development and support of a clear thesis. The focus of the course is to lay the foundation for future academic writing requirements, including the ability to analyze, synthesize, evaluate, summarize, paraphrase, and cite textual sources from required course readings. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test score of 6 or COMP107 (C or better) or COMP108 (C or better)
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