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• WRI 330: WRITING THE NOVEL

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course teaches the craft of writing the novel. Students will create original fiction with the intent of completing a book-length story. A capstone project of the course will be to submit a final portfolio of work containing complete, polished drafts of the chapters written and workshopped throughout the semester. The course will also require students to read, analyze, discuss, and write about novels by celebrated writers.
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• WRI 333: DIGITAL RHETORIC AND WRITING

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course focuses on honing the analysis and production of contemporary digital texts by extending longstanding academic conceptions rooted in the printed word alone. Specifically, the course examines how emerging areas within Rhetoric and Composition such as visual rhetoric, digital writing, and multimodal style are vital in cultivating sophisticated, responsive methods of analysis and production in a variety of online texts. Students will familiarize themselves with issues surrounding the creation, revision, and deployment of digital texts to better understand the complex rhetorics involved when arranging words, images, sounds, coding languages, available designs, fonts, colors, and spaces to make new kinds of 21st century texts and arguments.
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• WRI 339: NEW MEDIA, STORY, CHANGE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course investigates the crucial role that story plays in creating impactful campaigns within new and emerging media environments. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which story continues to be one of the most important rhetorical tools in community and social movements seeking change. Readings will draw from a wide range of disciplines including rhetoric, literacy studies, marketing, public relations, communication studies, social media theory, cognitive psychology, and social movement studies.
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• WRI 340: SCREENWRITING I

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will offer an introduction to the art and craft of screenwriting and will prepare students to write screenplays for motion pictures or television that meet industry standards. The class will include intensive writing, readings, script analyses, and critiques. Students will complete assignments in story, structure, character, and script development. In addition, students will be introduced to the business of being a screenwriter and a motion picture industry professional today. For the term project, students will complete a short narrative screenplay.
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• WRI 342: SCRNWRITING: NARR WEB SERIES

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will offer an introduction to creating and writing the short-form episodic Internet TV series and will give students pragmatic tools used by screenwriters working in this burgeoning field of the digital media industry today. Class topics will include the series concept, character and story development, collaborative writing skills, and production design. Lectures and screenings will provide a background in the history and aesthetics of serial media projects, short-form video, and episodic drama. Upon completion of the course, students will have created a web series, written a pilot script and two subsequent scripts, and employed a screenwriter's considerations in devising a pre-production strategy. In addition, they will be introduced to the business of promoting a narrative web series designed for distribution over the Internet.
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• WRI 345: RHETORIC DEMOCRACY ADVOC.

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  The connection between rhetoric and democracy is an old one dating back to the origins of both concepts in Western traditions. Simply put rhetoric the skilled use of argument and persuasive discourse and democracy were seen as ways to replace violence as the primary means of governing and maintaining social order. However, the connections between democracy and rhetoric may not be immediately apparent indeed the two may appear to be in opposition in contemporary society. This course argues that the intimate connections between rhetoric and democracy are critical to retain and reclaim for the health of democratic society and culture. In the era of globalization and digital media these connections are even more important. A healthy democracy requires citizen advocates who are skilled in the analysis of public discourse as well as in the production of persuasive texts.
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• WRI 347: ACT WRITING MEDIA: DEM FUTURES

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion in the development, repurposing, and critical use of new media by political activists. Unlike theoretical debates regarding the relative merits of new media compared to more traditional media or the vigorous business interest in 'web 2.0' for its marketing possibilities, activists have approached new media in a rhetorical fashion. For activists, new media are part of the 'available means' with which political organizing and campaigning take place. This course explores the multiple and complex ways in which activists have made use of and rewritten what counts as media, who counts as an authorized writer, and even what counts as writing. The course will investigate examples of activist campaigns, emergent theories of literacy, and the role of literacy training for the development of activists and how this is often at odds with the literacy instruction students receive in secondary and post-secondary schooling.
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• WRI 350: BREAKING NEWS

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides undergraduate students with a more detailed study in the reporting and writing about breaking news, planned and unplanned events that happen and develop quickly in our communities every day. Students will engage with, analyze and respond to breaking stories that develop around them - locally, nationally and internationally monitoring social media, websites, radio, TV outlets and print news sources. Students will also work in their communities, reporting on and writing about breaking news (small and large, planned and unplanned) as it happens around them. They will report and write short news stories using social media, online and print platforms. There will also be the opportunity to post photographs, sound clips and short video of the news they cover.
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• WRI 370: SEM: SEL TPCS PROF WRITNG

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  A course offering students the opportunity to study in depth a topic in the practice, theory, or history of the print media not covered in the regular curriculum. Students may register for this course more than once - up to a maximum of six semester hours of credit - so long as they do not repeat the same topic. However, they may take no more than three hours of credit under this rubric in any one semester.
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• WRI 371: INDEP STDY IN PROF WRITNG

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  A course offering the individual student an opportunity to study in depth a topic in the practice, theory, or history of written communications not covered in the regular curriculum. A student may register for this course more than once - up to a maximum of six semester hours of credit - so long as he or she does not repeat the same topic. However, a student may take no more than three hours of credit under this rubric in any one semester.
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