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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: gain confidence in their ability to be creative; develop convictions to generate and refine highly original, non-obvious solutions to a wide variety of needs and problems; explore resources, tools, and techniques to use in helping creative efforts; experience many different approaches to being creative, bringing into the effort viewpoints from the sciences, the arts, and all forms of human endeavor; understand idea generation and development; and develop skills in the management of creative individuals, including themselves, and projects in business, the community, and personal development.
Instruction: This course explores the subject of creativity from the standpoint of making the student more aware of a world of potentials and the limitless surrounding possibilities for making and doing the new and useful in a wide variety of settings. Major topics covered in the course are: enhancing personal creativity; explore the deep intellectual background of creativity with noted physicist David Bohm; generate and refine ideas with others, using a wide variety of group and team creative processes; explore the creative process in business and other realms.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:demonstrate the power of the written word; demonstrate that writing successfully is a process that starts with thinking and ends with revising; apply the components of rhetoric and uphold the writer's challenge to control them; equate the connection between logical thinking and effective persuasive writing; analyze logical fallacies in their own thinking and the thinking of others; and identify the use, misuse and abuse of secondary source material.
Instruction: Major topics include: expository writing, the writing process, components of rhetoric, and critiquing student and published papers.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: develop an individual style of writing, identify a researchable topic, use a library and the Internet to gather material, evaluate the material, and synthesize findings in a well-written, well-argued paper; apply the APA guidelines for proper documentation of source materials; and define plagiarism and develop strategies on how to avoid plagiarism.
Instruction: Major topics include: conducting research; using the writing process; writing in all disciplines; using evidence; making an argument; developing an individual style of writing; reading, interpreting, and writing about literature.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: model the process involved in creating a speech; assess the factors surrounding a speech: presentation, audience, and environment; gain experience in live speaking situations with diverse topics and audiences; develop and apply skills to other situations where speech-making is required; evaluate historical and contemporary presentations, made by others; develop confidence and ease in speaking; and communicate ethically.
Instruction: Major topics include: public speaking and the communication process; managing communication apprehension; listening effectively; analyzing one's audience; adapting to diverse audiences; enhancing one's credibility and selecting a topic; speaking with a purpose; discovering and outlining a speech; supporting one's ideas with evidence; organizing and outlining a speech; delivering a speech effectively; and using language effectively.
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