Course Description

Welcome to Dallasville Township, Michigan. Here you will find that your assignments will directly impact the residents at work, at play, and at school. During this semester, we will read, discuss, and critique various types of communication, including oral, written, visual, and electronic. Due to the nature of this course, your work will consist of reading, writing, and communicating in reasonable to more than reasonable amounts. As this course is also a lab-based course, students can expect to spend a greater amount of time in class or outside of class in computer labs or at home working on class assignments. Thus, if you are not reasonably comfortable with working in computer spaces, please discuss options with me. Your enrollment in this course signifies a basic knowledge and skill level with computers and computer systems.

This course will

• require reading texts which will provide a basis of strategies for producing similar texts and documents.
• encourage consideration of an audience's system of aesthetics, values, and ethics
• require responses to supplemental texts and provide strategies for producing responses through oral, written, and electronic responses
• provide students with strategies for developing and supporting various professional communication modes