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  • 3.00 Credits

    The course is designed to prepare students for the ever-changing roles journalists now fill. Most reporters are asked to write, take photos, shoot video, and post items to the Internet on a daily basis. With a focus on good journalistic reporting and storytelling, students will learn how to prepare news, feature, profile and editorial stories for a variety of multimedia formats, including: print and online editions of LCCC's student newspaper "The Paw Print", online blogs, photojournalism, videos, and audio sound bites.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Through narratology, an interdisciplinary study of the structures of stories and of the relationships between stories and human beings, this course introduces students to the complex relationships between two related but unique storytelling forms: literature and film. The course emphasizes study of the theoretical nature of literature and film; of relationships between literature and film; of debates about which form more satisfyingly presents or reflects human experiences and human conditions; and of the creative processes people use to produce literature and film. Students will acquire and employ the technical vocabulary necessary for discussing and writing critically about literature and film.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to readings published since the end of World War II, with an emphasis on short stories, novels, and plays written by prominent American and international authors during the 1970's, 80's, and 90's. In particular, the course explores the relationship between art and parallel social, cultural, religious and political events shaping contemporary life. In readings, discussions, and lectures students will discover writers who experiment with literary forms to challenge depictions of the human condition.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on the rich and varied tradition of writing by women. Explores the traditional genres as well as non-traditional genres (journals, memoirs, letters, speeches) in which women have written over the centuries. Readings emphasize the historical roots from which women's writing grew and explore the thematic range of women's literary heritage.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An opportunity for students to express their ideas in various creative modes. To stimulate creativity in thinking and writing, the course allows for close student-instructor examination and evaluation of student creations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on science fiction and imaginative literature. Significant eras in the history of the genre will be studied using representative key novels and short stories. Assigned readings will be supplemented with films, music, and other relevant media.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines manifestations of the Gothic in literature, film, video, drawings and paintings, photographs, and other visual documents since the Middle Ages, concentrating on works by writers such as Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice. Subjects studied include Medieval folk ballads, the Frankenstein myth, vampirism, Gothic architecture, pre-Raphaelite painting, eschatology, horror in modern novels and film, and Goth rock.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students will focus on the history, context and significance of the literary magazine in American culture, as well as manage the production of the college's literary magazine. Concurrent with a study of literary magazine volumes past and present, students will promote the college's magazine, solicit student submissions, oversee editorial review, guide the selection of works for publication, edit manuscripts, layout and design the magazine, work with other student groups and college staff to release and publicize the issue, and plan the event of its reading. The students will serve as managing editors of the magazine and be responsible for its publication under the guidance of the instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is a survey of Latin American literature from its inception to present. All work will be read in English translation. Students will engage with poetry, prose, and plays through readings, discussions, and writing activities to improve their understanding of Latin American Literature and related literary trends and concepts such as Colonialism, Romanticism, Modernism, Magic Realism, and the Latin American Boom, as well as the works' relationships to politics, history, culture, and identity.
  • 6.00 Credits

    This course provides non-native speaking English students with the foundational language skills necessary for further academic and professional pursuits. Skill areas include English writing composition and rhetoric, grammar and sentence structure, reading and vocabulary.
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