24 courses with the subject ENCM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENCM 1100Introduction to Communication Studies4
Goals: To introduce students to the field of communication studies by providing an overview of approaches to studying communication in a variety of contexts. Content: An examination of the research and theory related to the dynamics of human communication. The process of attributing and sharing meaning, the effects of nonverbal behavior on interpretation and meaning attribution, the factors influencing interpersonal, small group, organizational, intercultural, and media in the digital age. Taught: Every semester
Goals: To interpret texts in relation to historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts and value systems; to identify broader historical, cultural, and intellectual movements that shape and are shaped by texts; and to recognize textual production and consumption as ethical, organizational, and cultural practices. Content: This is a topics course. Each of the distinct topic offerings engages in a survey of literary, cultural, and rhetorical texts that will provide students with core knowledge and skills for the discipline and more broadly vital for success at and beyond Hamline. Course topics may include studies of periods and movements; studies of texts comparatively and thematically, situated in their respective historical and cultural contexts; studies of genres and modes of academic, professional, and public communications; and studies of literary, cultural, and rhetorical movements. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Every semester
Goals: To introduce students to conceptual frameworks of critical media studies; to create savvy media consumers by teaching them to understand forces behind media institutions that influence the ways they create messages; to learn to construct and express oral arguments pertaining to media issues more effectively and more academically. Content: New media and old media, media theory, communications infrastructure, media ownership, media impact, media policy and law, media ethics. Taught: Every semester
ENCM 1400Introduction to Literature and Criticism4
Goals: To introduce readers to a critical relationship with literary form that is the foundation of the discipline of English. The course investigates literature and writing as a site of cultural production and consumption, leading to a self-reflexive development of critical thinking through the close reading of texts in different genres. Students acquire critical terminology and practice interpretive strategies. Content: Close reading of and writing about selected works from various cultures, genres, and periods. Taught: Every other year
FYW 1120 or its equivalent, or concurrent enrollment Credits: 4
ENCM 1500Introduction to Professional Communication4
Goals: To survey common genres and audiences of professional writing in their organizational, cultural, and ethical contexts. To introduce fundamental principles of rhetorical theory and how they can be applied to the analysis and production of professional communication. Content: Genres and emphasis may vary from semester to semester. Possible genres include: proposals, reports, infographics, memos, apologies, user and feasibility testing, and job application materials. Students will focus on the rhetorical, ethical, technological, legal, and pragmatic elements of producing professional writing for diverse audiences and purposes. Taught: Every semester
Goals: To help students gain real-life skills in speaking in public, gain confidence, and enhance their ability to deliver oral presentations; to help students achieve the ability to undertake the research process, reason, and effectively identify what needs to be said in a given situation as well as the best way to say it; to practice the skills of critical listening, critical analysis of arguments, and effective advocacy that can enable students to become more engaged in effective and ethical public discourse. Content: Theories of communication in public settings; factors influencing message creation, construction, and interpretation; utilizing research and evidence in creating effective arguments; adaptation to the communication situation and audience; addressing the diversity of values and viewpoints held by audience members; ethical issues in public communication; factors influencing effective delivery; stagefright. Taught: Every semester
Goals: To study argumentation theories, including historical perspectives and current approaches; to understand arguments as a method of inquiry and advocacy, and as a problem-solving tool; to consider the ethical implications of formal and informal argument; to increase skills in critical thinking, in evaluation of evidence and reasoning, in developing strategies for the invention of persuasive argument, in evaluating formal and informal argument, and in justifying argumentation choices. To learn to construct and express oral arguments effectively in a public setting. Content: Analysis of theories and strategies of argumentation; application of principles and theories of argumentation; emphasis on critical assessment of argumentation in a variety of contexts and media. Taught: Every semester
Goals: To develop skills in writing for mass media. Content: Techniques and practice of news, feature, and interpretive reporting combined with reading and discussion of principles and ethics of journalism. Taught: Annually
Goals: To introduce students to theoretical approaches to texts and to the practical applications of literary theory. Students should take this gateway course in the sophomore year in conjunction with declaring a major/minor. This course builds on the learning experiences introduced in FYW 1120 and across the 1000-level foundations in English and Communication Studies, and prepares students for success in 3000-level writing and literature courses and the senior seminar. Required for some 3000-level courses. Content: Reading and discussing representative 20th and 21st-century critical approaches to the study and understanding of written texts and producing analytical essays that apply critical methods to selected texts. Taught: Every semester
ENCM 3010Theories & Methods for Professional Communication4
Goals: To introduce a range of research methods used in studying communication and rhetorical studies; to develop an understanding of the purposes of communication research; to learn how to design a research project; to identify strengths and limitations of various research methods; to develop an appreciation of ethical issues in research. Content: Various types of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, such as experimental research, survey research, ethnographic research, textual analysis, content analysis, historical/critical research. Taught: Annually
Goals: To critically analyze and engage with various kinds of literary and multimodal texts through an intensive study of the cultural systems which shape (and constrain) meaning in global and local contexts. Content: A critical study of a specific topic in and across different cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: African-American Studies; Writing Masculinity and Femininity in Asian-American Literatures; Media in Global Perspective; 20th-century Irish literature. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
Goals: To critically analyze and evaluate the systems shaping (and constraining) global and local media. To have students intervene in current scholarly debates on how digital and other media have transformed, or should transform, our conceptions of politics, communication, art, law, and life. Content: A critical study of a specific topic about and through different media. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: Media in Global Perspective; Irish Film and Culture; Spike Lee in conversation with other filmmakers; Critical Digital Media Theory. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
Goals: To critically analyze and engage with various kinds of literary and multimodal texts. Content: An intensive study of a specific genre, period, writer, or issue, through extensive engagement with primary and secondary texts and an evaluation of contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: Speculative Fiction and Now; Weird Climate Fictions; Shakespeare; Gender and Sexuality in Road Narratives. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
Goals: To develop tools for understanding, and experiences to demonstrate/practice, rhetorical efficacy: choosing media and genre, engaging effectively with context and audience, and achieving a clear purpose. To develop and practice capacity (as communicators) in specific vocational and civic/community contexts. Content: Specific engagement with particular forms of communication and specific professional and organizational contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: Organizational Writing; Small-group Communication; Podcasting. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
ENCM 3405Studies in Professional Communication: Grantwriting4
Goals: This course will serve as a general grant writing course, open to all students, to develop the resources and skills to locate and write grant proposals and grant calls. Content: Students will learn and interact with grant databases; develop the research methods to research grant proposals and execution; write sample grant proposals; get experiences writing specific grant sections, such as budgets letters of intent, which directly extends to professional writing in all contexts; and learn research processes to meet the requirements of grant proposals. Taught: Annually
Goals: To develop tools for understanding, and experiences to demonstrate/practice, rhetorical efficacy: choosing media and genre, engaging effectively with context and audience, and achieving a clear purpose. To develop and practice capacity (as communicators) in specific vocational and civic/community contexts. Content: Specific engagement with particular forms of communication and specific professional and organizational contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: Organizational Writing; Small-group Communication; Podcasting. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
Goals: To develop tools for understanding, and experiences to demonstrate/practice, culturally-responsive rhetorical efficacy. To develop and practice capacity (as communicators) in specific vocational and civic/community contexts – with a particular focus on developing skills in advocacy/leadership. Content: An intensive examination of the role difference and cultural contexts inform effective rhetorical choices and practice. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: Intercultural Communication; Usability and User Advocacy; Cultural Rhetorics of Land and Place. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
ENCM 3500Studies in Technical & Disciplinary Writing4
Goals: To develop tools for understanding, and experiences to demonstrate/practice, rhetorical efficacy in specific discourse or disciplinary contexts. Content: An intensive examination of the role difference and cultural contexts inform effective rhetorical choices and practice. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: Science Communication; Usability and User Advocacy. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
ENCM 3501Studies in Technical & Disciplinary Writing: Teaching Writing4
Goals: To develop tools for understanding, and experiences to demonstrate/practice, rhetorical efficacy in specific discourse or disciplinary contexts. Content: Students will learn 1) theories of composition and writing pedagogy, 2) to apply these theories to develop informed writing processes and teaching practices, and 3) to hone advanced skills in expository and argumentative writing and research. Taught: Annually
ENCM 3505Studies in Technical & Disciplinary Writing: Environmental and Science Writing4
Goals: To develop tools for understanding, and experiences to demonstrate/practice, rhetorical efficacy in specific discourse or disciplinary contexts. How can we write about science in a way that people will want to read? How can we write about the fate of species and ecosystems in a way that will engage and entertain and maybe even inspire? How can we turn scientific information into stories that cause readers to wonder at this mysterious, fascinating, imperiled world we call home? While engaging with subjects such as the food we eat, the water we drink, the energy we mine and burn, and the health of our body, mind, and spirit, the main subject of the best environmental and science writing is the question of how shall we live? In an age when humans are straining the earth’s abilities to sustain life, this question has never been more important. We will begin by reading published environmental and science writing to understand the possibilities of the genre and to practice reading as writers—asking, ‘How can I learn from what they are doing, and what can I steal?’ We will learn the process of the workshop, of commenting constructively on the work of our peers. And we will write our own essays—trying our hand at weaving sensory detail, firsthand experience, research, and humor into our own stories of life on Earth. Expect interdisciplinary discussions, lively reading and writing, and a new appreciation for our beautiful, troubled world. Taught: Every other year
ENCM 3600Studies in Communication & Public Advocacy4
Goals: To develop a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of specific critical approaches to collaboration with and service to public organizations, while investigating and responding to community-centered issues. To shape stronger critical praxis for public work and collaboration. To develop, through these practical applications, a more robust understanding of effective communication and advocacy. Content: Practical engagement in specific contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Examples: Communication for Non-profits and Community Organizations; Writing in the Archives; Writing for Social Change. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
Goals: To explore special topics in news reporting and writing. Content: Build on basic writing techniques and formats with concentration on interviewing, fact gathering, editing, and design. Exposure to print, broadcast, or online media. Topics vary. Check section title and description. A student may register for this course more than once for different topics. Taught: Annually
ENCM 3800Disciplinary and Technical Writing Practicum4
Goals: To develop a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of and reflection about specific disciplinary and technical approaches to communication. To shape stronger critical praxis for field-specific communication. To develop, through these practical applications, a more robust understanding of effective communication in various professional communities. Content: The practicum will be a facilitated opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration and critical reflection, with specific scaffolded resources from the instructor to refine and strengthen what students might do in respective professional and disciplinary communities. Examples: Podcasting; Zines; Editing and Publishing; Environmental Communication. Taught: Annually
Goals: To develop a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of specific critical approaches to collaboration with and service to a particular public organization, while investigating and responding to an issue or need defined by that organization. To shape stronger critical praxis for public work and collaboration. To develop, through this practical partnership, a more robust understanding of effective communication and advocacy. Content: Students taking this practicum will be engaged in collaborative work to meet the needs (or shape a project) serving a community partner. The practicum will be a facilitated opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaboration and critical reflection, with specific scaffolded resources from the instructor to refine and strengthen what students are learning in and through this civic engagement. This course will integrate LEAP reflection and learning objectives. Taught: Every other year
