66 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION English Composition and Rhetoric Students whose placement tests indicate that they are not prepared for English 1 are required to take English 81. 1. Basic Communication. A study of communication by means of reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Habits of critical and logical thinking are encouraged. Special emphasis is placed upon an extended expository paper in which students are taught a process of collecting, organizing and presenting materials effectively. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 2. Basic Communication. Designed to acquaint students with mass media and to give them practice in the critical analysis and the composition of exposition and argument. Clear thinking is stressed as a means of accomplishing the major purpose of effective communication. Prerequisite: English 1. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Staff 3. Basic Communication. The forms of description and narration, emphasizing the use of these types through reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Techniques of effective reading of fiction and poetry are stressed. Prerequisite: English 2. Three quarter hours. Autumn, Winter Spring. Staff 4. Argumentation and Debate. A study of the principles of argument. These principles are discussed in connection with the preparation of the national debating question. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Green, Monson 5. Argumentation and Debate. A continuation of English 4. Prerequisite: English 4. Three quarter hours. Winter. Green, Monson 6. Journalism. Designed to give the student a basic understanding of the problems involved in modern newspaper production. The simple news story is stressed. The course outlines opportunities in journalism as a vocation. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Evans 6a. Newspaper Workshop. Practical, first-hand experience in problems of newspaper production. Class members write, edit and make up the College paper, Signpost. The course offers opportunity to acquire basic skills required of professional newsmen. It stresses news writing. Prerequisites: Journalism 6, 7, or 8. Two quarter hours. Autumn. Evans 7. Journalism. A study of different basic types of news accounts: Features, policy stories, brevities, accidents, society items, obituaries, etc. Students write news stories in class and also receive limited experience writing for the College paper, Signpost. Two quarter hours. Winter. Evans 67 7a. Newspaper Workshop. Actual experience in newspaper production. Class performs all editorial functions connected with the College paper, Signpost. Editing and headline writing are stressed. Prerequisite: Newspaper Workshop 6a, or Journalism 6, 7, or 8. Two quarter hours. Winter. Evans 8. Journalism. Policy in the news, editorials, copyreading, editing, proofreading, heading, and makeup. It is aimed at acquainting the students with all editorial room functions. Two quarter hours. Spring. Evans 8a. Newspaper Workshop. Newspaper makeup, news policy and editorial writing on more advanced levels. Class members write and edit the College paper, Signpost. Prerequisite: Newspaper workshop 6a or 7a, or Journalism 6, 7, or 8. Two quarter hours. Spring. Evans 9. Technical Reports. Principles of composition which are applied to engineering, scientific and technical reports. Prerequisite: English 1, 2,. Three quarter hours. Winter. Mikkeisen 11. Vocabulary Building. Designed to aid a student in the correct pronunciation of words and to give him a working knowledge of the best methods of enlarging his vocabulary. Two quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Green, Mikkeisen, Nilsson 12. Magazine Writing. A study of vitality and style in the magazine article; also physical problems of format and content. Problems of editing and publishing Scribulus, the College magazine, are considered. Contributions are required. Three quarter hours. Autumn. Nilsson ■ 18. Magazine Writing. A study of imaginative writing involving description, generalized narrative, and language with a strong, imagistic appeal. Editing and publishing of Scribulus continued. Contributions required. Three quarter hours. Winter. Nilsson 14. Magazine Writing. A study of editorial requirements of the short story. Editing and publishing of Scribulus continued. Short stories required. Three quarter hours. Spring. Nilsson 16. College Grammar. An advanced course in college grammar. Three quarter hours. Spring. Green 18. Business English. A review of sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary, with emphasis on their application to effective business writing. Three quarter hours. Winter. Evans 19. Business Correspondence. A presentation and application of the psychology, principles, and problems underlying effective business correspondence. Three quarter hours. Spring. Evans