26 courses with the subject COM, 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.
This course is designed to provide students with essential skills in reading/writing. Students will complete computerized modules as well as participate in direct instruction.
This course is designed to prepare students for academic reading in college level courses. Foundational reading skills and strategies are emphasized to promote vocabulary acquisition, comprehension, recall and retention of print material. Students will have the opportunity to enhance their skills through frequent readings and discussions.
This course is designed to begin to prepare students for academic writing in college level courses. Emphasis is placed on grammar, writing processes, and sentence and paragraph construction. Students will have the opportunity to refine their skills through frequent excercises in edited academic assignments.
The course introduces the development of basic reading and writing skills. Students will begin to develop a sense of themselves as readers and writers and a sense of the elements that constitute effective academic success. Students will compose paragraphs and begin essay construction in response to expository texts.
The course continues the development of reading and writing skills. Students develop a sense of themselves as readers and writers and a sense of the elements that constitute effective academic success. Students will compose essays in response to expository texts.
Introduction to Creative Writing is designed to teach the beginning creative writer the basic skills of writing fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. Students will read and critique contemporary authors, and will imitate various forms through creative writing exercises in all three genres. Guided by continual oral and written critiques from both the instructor and peers, students will choose two genres in which they will compose and revise complete works.
English Composition I (COM 121) is a 3-credit introductory course in general academic writing. The course helps students develop effective strategies for writing by emphasizing a deliberate process-approach to writing . During the semester, the course’s curriculum guides students through the careful development of a five-paragraph essay into a refined written analysis of a topic. Students will use advanced rhetorical modes and library research to revise an original text into a composition appropriate for college-level courses.
This course helps students develop an understanding of the elements of exposition and formal argument and the processes and strategies involved in writing essays for various audiences. Students also learn to identify and locate credible sources, integrate researched information within essays, and use Modern Language Association (MLA) and American Psychological Association (APA) documentation. *This Honors section of English Composition assumes a strong foundation in writing skills, including developing and organizing a focused piece of writing and using current conventions of academic discourse. Therefore, the major emphasis will be an in-depth exploration of a socially relevant theme chosen by instructor and/or students using those skills and producing a collaborative, unified body of work rather than isolated individual essays. In a workshop format, the class will work as a community of writers to define and to solve a writing problem. Discussions, readings, interviews, primary research, and extensive writing will result in a culminating final product and presentation that would incorporate the work of the entire semester.
Publishing Practicum: Editorial Process is a project-based course designed to take students through the editorial process involved in preparing a publication. As students work as a team to produce RACC’s annual journal, Legacy , they gain practical experience in soliciting submissions and evaluating work for publication as well as in publicizing and promoting the journal. Through analysis of contemporary literary magazines for content, audience and style, students engage with theoretical aspects of literary publishing as well and create their own editorial philosophy. Students also contribute to a collaborative reflective log to build a positive interdependence that moves the group forward. The course thus gives students a unique opportunity to become managers of the semester-long project and learn through experience and reflective inquiry.
In this project-based course, students will be involved in the production of Legacy , RACC’s annual journal. The course will take students through the steps of publishing from submission selection to final text design and publication. As they go through the intellectual and practical issues of content creation, students will gain experience in evaluating, revising, and editing submissions. As the course progresses, students will participate in the process of page design and layout, establishing an aesthetic relationship between text and image, and create the look of the journal. The course will also offer students an opportunity to work with a printing company and engage in publicizing and promoting the finished product.
An introduction to short story, drama and poetry, the course builds on and develops writing and research skills begun in COM 121 . Students engage in class discussions as well as compose essays which respond to and analyze literary works.
Composition and Literature: Texts and Contexts (Honors) involves students in a guided exploration of literature through the understanding and application of various critical theories. Invited to read, discuss, analyze, interpret, research, and write about fiction, poetry, and drama from the perspectives of a number of theoretical approaches, students will develop the ability to recognize assumptions underlying certain literary theories, understand their aims and implications, and apply their methods of analysis to literature. Students will also practice a variety of researching and writing strategies that evolve from the various theoretical perspectives.
Students learn research techniques in their specialized fields and standard formats used in business and industry, such as technical correspondence, formal reports, and oral presentations. Emphasis is on accommodating the needs of technical audiences, from lay to expert, specifically through document design, logical presentation, and concise, readable prose.
This course emphasizes the strategies necessary for planning, developing, and delivering oral presentations, which include individual informative and persuasive speeches along with group presentations. 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 performance provide opportunities for self-evaluation.
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 and team presentations. Students also lead class discussions as well as give feedback to classmates. Videos of students’ performances provide opportunities for self-evaluation.
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.
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.
This course, designed for proficient 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.
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 creative nonfiction. Students 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.
In 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 that 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 be introduced to the world of publishing.
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 through the revision process.
The course offers students practice in and preparation for writing in upper-level classes with a focus on the rhetoric of scholarly inquiry. Students will read and discuss nonfiction texts about topics of interest to academic readers, particularly for the way they appeal to audiences and use evidence from research. Students will then apply their understanding of rhetorical strategies to create an extended inquiry-based project
The course offers students practice in and preparation for writing in upper-level classes with a focus on the rhetoric of scholarly inquiry. Students will read and discuss nonfiction texts about topics of interest to academic readers, particularly for the way they appeal to audiences and use evidence from research. Students will then apply their understanding of rhetorical strategies to create an extended inquiry-based project. *The Honors section of English Composition II, in addition, provides an introduction to classic rhetoric in order to understand its connection to current academic writing. The class will select a focus theme for the semester to allow an in-depth investigation. The Honors section will require students to work collaboratively, in groups or as a whole class, to design and develop a culminating project.
This course introduces the student to the discipline of rhetoric as the theory of human persuasive action. Students study the origins of rhetoric as a discipline in the West, approaches to the design of arguments, and modern theories of human communication that frame persuasion as the foundation of human social action. Coursework will include readings in the philosophy of language and examination of written and spoken texts as specimens of persuasion. In this course, students acquire the theoretical understanding and vocabulary that (i) facilitate their analysis of human communication (ii) heighten awareness of their own subjection to persuasion and (iii) improve their ability to communicate persuasively.
This course will introduce students to interpretive theories and their use in analyzing how humans create meaningful identities, both individually and collectively. Students will (i) study and critique various theoretical accounts of human experience and (ii) use these theories to examine diverse forms of human meaning making, including art, politics, and education. Upon completion of the course, students will be able not only to examine how cultures and individuals use symbolic structures to promote particular meanings and values but also to analyze contemporary social challenges and to use theory to explore solutions.
Varies Credit Hours This course allows faculty to provide students with additional, timely learning experiences in their area of study. Each course of one to four credits is scheduled when needed with a unique topic, a specific syllabus, appropriate enrollment requirements and prerequisite courses. Up to 12 credits of special studies courses may be applied to a student’s program, insofar as they fit into the program requirements. (A special studies course may be repeated if a different specific topic is offered.) Special studies courses that are later approved as on-going courses in substantially the same form will not be counted toward the 12- credit limit.
Source: Reading Area Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
