80 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 are studied by emphasizing the use of these through reading, listening, speaking, and writng. Techniques for writing effective description and narration 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. Three 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. (Signpost) Three 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. Three quarter hours. Winter. Evans 81 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. (Signpost) Three 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. Staff 10. Rapid Reading. A course designed to assist the average reader to increase speed and comprehension so that college level reading may be accomplished in a minimum time with minimum effort. Two quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Rowley, Ward 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, Nilsson, Woodfield 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 51. Rapid Reading. A basic course in reading techniques for the student who finds himself handicapped in reading speed and comprehension. Required of all students who do not satisfactorily pass the reading section of Weber College entrance examinations. Two quarter hours. Autumn, Winter, Spring. Rowley, Ward