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• WRIT 673: Professional Writing Workshop

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Focus upon the rhetoric(s) of professional communication within the contexts of students' own on-the-job writing: how to thoughtfully select language, visual and audial texts, and deliberately designed formats to accommodate writers' intentions as creative problem-solvers and to meet the needs of diverse audiences. This course is designed for both practicing professionals and working people aspiring to new professional positions. In a workshop format and, at times, working in teams, students will compose modes of discourse typical of professional writing, including but not limited to electronic and/or print ad copy, web content, brochures, non-profit pamphlets, letters, informal reports, formal reports, promotional campaigns, and/or recommendations; social media writing for websites, wikis and blogs; students' own websites, wikis, and blogs.
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• WRIT 674: New Media Rhetoric

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Gain a rhetorical and theoretical understanding of how texts operate in our increasingly sophisticated online media culture. Examine these new media texts as they appear on the Internet with a particular emphasis on social media as well as old media that is being transformed by/in/to the digital. Learn to follow these processes of text (re)mediation as they take place through perceptual and temporal processes, movement, and memory.
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• WRIT 675: Community Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Focuses on the theory and practice of community literacy and citizen engagement in the community. Emphasizes research on community literacy and action-oriented projects meeting community literacy needs.
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• WRIT 682: Genres in Nonfiction Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Exploration of theories and practices of creative non-fiction, including but not limited to memoirs, profiles, histories, biographies, travel literature, blogging, and nature writing in diverse modes (print, digital,& visual) for diverse audiences and purposes.
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• WSSD 103: Foundations for Success

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Obstacles dont have to stop you. If you run into a wall, dont turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. This mantra by Michael Jordan, Hall of Fame professional basketball player, serves as a foundation for success. This course explores the power of caring mentors to shape an individuals future. In this course we explore how education improves humanity. Amazing people dont just happen! Students will learn how to develop a growth mindset and through a process called critical inquiry, reflect on themselves and learn how to secure good mentors in their lives to partner in their future success. Using teaching and coaching as a framework, students will also recognize the pedagogical techniques used in their classes and how all students can best respond to those techniques to be successful in college. The course is open to all students and not intended as an introduction to a major course.
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• WSSD 110: Medical Terminology

  1.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  The study of medical terminology introduces students to the language of medicine. Students will gain an understanding of basic elements, rules of building and analyzing medical words, and medical terms associated with the body as a whole.
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• WSSD 279: Experimental

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Experimental
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• WSSD 300: Co-Op Ed Experience in Wssd

  3.00 - 12.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Co-Op Ed Experience in Wssd
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• WSSD 310: PE for Elementary Schools

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Methods, materials, facilities and equipment for programs of health and physical education in elementary schools. Opportunities for observation of children at play, making equipment, program planning and teaching.
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• WSSD 311: Resp to Emergen: First Aid CPR

  3.00 Credits

  Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  
  Preparation of students to develop skill and knowledge enabling them to administer first aid in the case of an accident or sudden illness. Certification in CPR and standard first aid according to American Red Cross standards.
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