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THE 404 - Directing for Theatre Semester Hours: 4
The course explores the elements comprising an approach to directing for the theatre. Elements include script analysis, stage composition, picturization, and techniques in working with actors. The course is hands-on. Students work from a study script as well as other scripts of their choice.
Prerequisite: THE 102 .
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THE 410 - Advanced Topics Semester Hours: 1-4
Advanced Topics
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THE 499 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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THE 590 - Field Experience/Internship Semester Hours: 1-4
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THE 620 - Independent Study Semester Hours: 1-4
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THE 660 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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THE 670 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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THE 680 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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THE 690 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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WST 101 - Westminster 101 Semester Hours: 1
Westminster 101 is a one-credit course that serves to introduce students to life at Westminster College and assist them in making a successful transition to higher education. Students will learn how to take advantage of opportunities for personal and academic growth while on campus and to develop strategies for personal and academic success.
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WST 199 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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WST 299 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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WST 399 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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WST 499 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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Writing |
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WRI 111 - Writing Semester Hours: 4
This foundational course-required of all first-year students-aims to develop and refine their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills, and prepares them to write successful college-level essays. Together, the instructor and the class will consider the functions of writer and audience, and will come to understand writing as an ongoing process: a creative mix of reading, re-reading, thinking, re-thinking, drafting, and revising. Assignments will include different types of papers and essays (descriptive, summary, analytical, and argumentative). Students are expected to invest themselves in research, organize a paper topic, compose a lucid thesis statement, and build substantial body paragraphs leading to a pointed conclusion. Along the way, the instructor will lead the class in a review of English grammar and style, as well as present MLA citation rules for print and electronic sources. These and a variety of activities and exercises will help students gain confidence, independence, and sophistication as writers. Students will take 111 either in the fall or the spring semester of their first year. A minimum passing grade of C- is required for graduation.
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WRI 199 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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WRI 210 - Introduction to Creative and Professional Writing Semester Hours: 4
In this course, students will give their attention to the craft of writing by advancing their understanding of creative nonfiction and professional feature writing. Students will learn to critique their peers’ work in order to advance the class’s understanding of the editing process and the genres in which we are working. Having gained knowledge and confidence through these processes, students will begin to write convincingly about the art of writing. Over the course of the term, each student will write 2 or 3 creative nonfiction essays and 2 or 3 professional feature stories. These essays and stories will be modeled by the examples in the textbooks that we read and discuss. Regularly, students will submit drafts of their work to the class for discussion in a workshop format. For each draft submitted to the workshop, 3 students will be assigned the task of writing a thoughtful critique.
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WRI 299 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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WRI 301 - Journalism I Semester Hours: 4
News reporting and writing, focusing on developing journalistic style and news judgment. Students will learn techniques of researching, interviewing, quoting, editing, beginning makeup and design, and rewriting the “handout,” or news release. This course also includes an introduction to press law, ethics and broadcast news. All students are expected to submit stories for print consideration.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 302 - Journalism II Semester Hours: 4
Advanced news, feature, and editorial writing course designed to take students beyond the inverted pyramid. The focus is on polishing print and broadcast news writing style, developing techniques of writing various feature stories, and understanding opinion writing. Students will practice copy editing, photo editing, headline writing, caption writing, layout, and design. This course includes a closer study of press law and responsibilities. As lab requirement, students will work with the Holcad staff and submit stories for print consideration.
Prerequisite: successful completion of WRI 201.
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WRI 351 - Creative Non-Fiction Semester Hours: 4
Creative Non-Fiction takes as its premise the core of all writing-narrative structure and imagery. In non-fiction, structure becomes plastic and changeable according to a writer’s goals. Students will explore ways to create imagery-rich text. Students will read a wide selection in this genre and analyze what individual writers have done and how they’ve done it.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 352 - Career Writing Semester Hours: 4
A course in the various types of practical writing required in the workplace.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 353 - Poetry Workshop Semester Hours: 4
A beginning workshop in which students develop skills in reading, evaluating, writing and revising poetry.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 354 - Fiction Workshop Semester Hours: 4
A beginning workshop in which students develop skills in reading, evaluating, writing and revising fiction.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 355 - Playwriting Workshop Semester Hours: 4
A beginning workshop in which students develop skills in reading, evaluating, writing and revising theater plays.
Cross-Listed: THE 255
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WRI 356 - Screenwriting Workshop Semester Hours: 4
A beginning workshop in which students develop skills in reading, evaluating, writing and revising screenplays.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
Cross-Listed: FS 356
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WRI 357 - Writing the Natural World Semester Hours: 4
Trees, puddles, cancer cells, earthquakes, climate change, grizzly bears, etc. Nature offers a bounty of subjects for a writer’s consideration. To give form to that consideration, this course provides students the opportunity to read and write poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction about the natural world. Students should expect to write and revise works in all three genres.
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WRI 358 - Technical Writing Semester Hours: 4
Throughout the ages, writing has always been mediated by the medium in which the words appear. With the advent of computers, in particular the Internet, the medium has shifted from paper-based to computer-based. We are in danger of losing the subtlety of language in the speed of technology and globalism. Instant messaging, e-mail, Web pages and other forms of computer-mediated communication are changing how we communicate with one another. It is important to emphasize that words must still be carefully crafted and writers must consider both the connotation and denotation of the words they choose. Because these documents will be technical in nature, they’ll contain graphs, charts, and a wide variety of visual elements as well as text.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 399 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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WRI 401 - Advanced Writing Workshop Semester Hours: 2
A workshop that will meet once a week for two credit hours, in which students will develop their skills in writing and criticism through peer review and interchange with the instructor. Students will work in the genre of their choice.
Prerequisite: successful completion of at least one of the following courses: WRI 351 , WRI 353 , WRI 354 , WRI 355 and WRI 356 .
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WRI 402 - Advanced Writing Workshop Semester Hours: 2
A workshop that will meet once a week for two credit hours, in which students will develop their skills in writing and criticism through peer review and interchange with the instructor. Students will work in the genre of their choice.
Prerequisite: successful completion of at least one of the following courses: WRI 251, 253, 254, 255 and 256.
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WRI 451 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop Semester Hours: 4
Creative Non-Fiction takes as its premise the core of all writing-narrative structure and imagery. In non-fiction, structure becomes plastic and changeable according to a writer’s goals. Students will explore ways to create imagery-rich text. Students will read a wide selection in this genre and analyze what individual writers have done and how they’ve done it.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 453 - Advanced Poetry Workshop Semester Hours: 4
A beginning workshop in which students develop skills in reading, evaluating, writing and revising poetry.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 454 - Advanced Fiction Workshop Semester Hours: 4
The advanced fiction writing workshop is designed to give students an intensive study and practice in the art of advanced fiction. The course will primarily focus on the production, reading, and constructive critique of student fiction. Students will refine the use of craft elements they started to develop in introductory writing courses and refine their implementation of story structure by writing, reading, and exploring the fundamentals of craft through stimulating exercises and course readings. Much of the course will be spent in various types of workshop formats (smaller and larger groups) where the class produces responses and suggestions to student work. Each student will compile a final portfolio of rigorously revised work by the end of the semester.
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WRI 455 - Advanced Playwriting Workshop Semester Hours: 4
A beginning workshop in which students develop skills in reading, evaluating, writing and revising theater plays.
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WRI 456 - Advanced Screenwriting Workshoip Semester Hours: 4
A beginning workshop in which students develop skills in reading, evaluating, writing and revising screenplays.
Prerequisite: WRI 210 .
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WRI 499 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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WRI 590 - Field Experience/Internship Semester Hours: 1-4
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WRI 601 - Capstone I Semester Hours: 2
Writing 601 is the first half of the two-course Writing Concentration capstone. The capstone project should demonstrate a Writing major’s ability to develop a creative and/or professional writing project that is assisted and complemented by literary analysis. By the end of Writing 601, each student will have submitted a comprehensive proposal for a viable, appropriate writing project, and completed a significant segment of the project for evaluation.
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WRI 602 - Capstone II Semester Hours: 2
Writing 602 is the second half of the two-course Writing capstone. The capstone project should demonstrate a Writing major’s ability to develop a creative and/or professional writing project that is assisted and complemented by literary analysis. By the end of Writing 602, each student will have completed a significant writing project.
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WRI 620 - Independent Study Semester Hours: 1-4
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WRI 660 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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WRI 670 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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WRI 680 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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WRI 690 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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