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• COM 151: Fundamentals of Speech

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  The course emphasizes the strategies necessary for planning, developing and delivering oral presentations, which range from individual informative and persuasive speeches to group panels and workshops. Class discussions focus on adapting information, organization, and delivery styles to meet the needs of listeners. Classroom activities are performance-based, with students delivering speeches, responding to classmates, and leading class discussions. Videos made of student performances provide opportunities for selfevaluation. Prerequisite:    Take 1 group (Take COM-098; Minimum grade D /Take EAP-050 EAP-060; Minimum grade D /Take COM-121; Minimum grade D). (Required, Previous).
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• COM 152: Fundamentals of Speech (Honors)

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  The Honors section of Fundamentals of Speech moves beyond emphasizing strategies for and practice in delivering basic informative and persuasive speeches of the non-Honors section. In this course students also examine styles of oral argumentation and gain experience in supporting an issue through research and logic as well as in answering and counter-arguing opposing evidence to a position. Students practice their skills in individual speeches as well as in team presentations. Moreover, students lead class discussions as well as give feedback to classmates. Videos of students? performances provide opportunities for self-evaluation. Prerequisite:    Take COM-051 COM-098 or COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 161: Mass Media

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course surveys the major forms of the mass media - newspapers, radio, magazines, television, and electronic media - and their impact politically, socially, and economically. The student will explore the origins, development, and potentiality of print, broadcast, and electronic media as well as analyze the evolution of standards, policies, methods, and controls. The course is designed to be equally useful for students planning to enter a communications field or other professions and businesses. As consumers, we all must use the media, either to inform ourselves or to help inform and persuade others. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 163: Writing for the Media

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course will introduce students to the wide variety of writing and publishing opportunities in the media. Students will learn to identify and practice writing for traditional media such as newspapers as well as engage in the study of and writing for other kinds of publishing genres such as magazines, public relations material, and on-line communication. Students will develop skills in writing copy for a variety of purposes including news reporting, feature writing, and creating press releases. Additionally, students will be introduced to the roles of the editor including writing editorials, editing copy, and writing headlines. In short, this course will help students to understand the qualifications needed to write for the media. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 201: Introduction to Editing

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course, designed for native writers of English, helps students develop editing strategies for making prose writing more effective. Using personal, peer, and professional texts, students will focus on issues of correctness and style. Specifically, they will learn to create prose that is correct in syntax, usage, and punctuation and to adapt prose style to fit a variety of audiences and situations. Editing will be viewed within the context of the composing process as a whole and concepts will be examined within a social, historical, and political perspective. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 211: Poetry Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  In this course students will study the elements and craft of writing poetry. Within a workshop setting, students will practice stanza, lineation, rhyme, word placement, and other elements of traditional verse as well as explore imagery, tone, style and composition of both traditional and free verse. As students read and respond to the poems of professionals and peers, they will explore strategies for revising their own poems as well as reflect on their personal writing processes. Students will also investigate markets for publishing their poetry. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121 or COM-122. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 215: Creative Nonfiction

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Creative nonfiction, popularly referred to as "the fourth genre," is narrative rooted in truth - in "real" life. While poetry, fiction and drama are forms that allow their writers to control plot and create characters, creative nonfiction writers must invent only form and style, not circumstance. This course is an introduction to reading and writing cretaive nonfiction. Studnets will examine the elements of effective nonfiction prose by reading contemporary models: personal essays, biographical sketches, short pieces of literary journalism and memoir. Students will develop their own nonfiction prose by consistently writing and revising, receiving ongoing written feedback from the instructor, and participating in class discussions, weekly writing workshops, and conferences. Students will enhance research skills by creatively integrating primary and secondary sources into their narratives. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 216: Creative Nonfiction II

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Creative Nonfiction II, a course intended to follow RACC's first level of Creative Nonfiction. Students will examine the elements of effective nonfiction prose by reading contemporary models, which are complex in construction and theme. Students will develop and refine one large body of prose by writing and revising several smaller scenes, receiving ongoing written feedback from the instructor, and participating in class discussions, weekly writing workshops, and conferences. Students will also by introduced to the world of publishing. Prerequisite:    Take COM-215; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 218: Fiction Writing I

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course is designed to teach the beginning writer the foundations of fictional writing through a concentration on the short story genre. Critical analysis of contemporary and classic fiction will foster students ability to read like writers and in turn, critically fashion their own prose. Students will begin to develop their art by writing creative scenes focusing on a limited number of literary devices and then, will write complete and original short stories. Guided by continual oral and written critiques from both the instructor and peers, students will learn to refine their work throgh the revision process. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• COM 219: Fiction Writing II

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Fiction Writing II continues the development of the art and craft of fiction writing, concentrating on the language and form of contemporary short fiction. Students will read and critique established short story writers, and imitate various contemporary forms in both creative exercises and original short stories. Guided by continual oral and written critiques from both the instructor and peers, students will put their works through various stages of the rewriting process. The course will culminate with the opportunity for the student to submit his/her most polished work for publication. Prerequisite:    Take COM-218; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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