2003-2005 - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

PBOS 504-6 Short Course in Writing (1)
Intensive course meeting three hours per
week for five weeks and focusing on a specialized
aspect of professional writing.
Content varies according to [he concurrent
interests of faculty and students. May be
repeated for credit when the topic changes.
Lab fee may be required. Grading:
Credit/No Credit (CRlNC) or letter grade.
PBOS 507-9 Short Course in Graphics
(1) Intensive course meeting three hours
per week for five weeks and focusing on a
specialized aspect ofgraphic design or
graphic production. Content varies according
to the concurrent interests of faculty
and students. May be repeatedfor credit
when the topic changes. Lab fee may be
required. Grading: Credit/No Credit
(CRlNC) or letter grade.
PBOS 510 Workshop in Digital Video
(3) Shooting, lighting, and miking. Adding
graphics, sounds, and special effects in the
editing process. Using digital production
and post-production equipment, students
learn basic video and audio production and
editing rechniques and also gain experience
in producing for rape, CD-ROM, DVD, the
Web, and other delivery sysrems. Lab fee
required.
PBOS 511 Paper and Printing (3) All
aspects of the paper and printing industries,
including the history of paper making,
paper characteristics, and the effecr of
ink on various types of paper; also, reproducrion
techniques rhrough the pressroom
and bindery.
PBOS 540 Creative Concepts (3)
Explorarion of crearive processes and strategies
for genera ring effective visual and verbal
ideas. Analysis of creative solutions in
various publications supplements pracrice
in applying problem-solving techniques.
PBOS 600 Media Design (3) An examination
oflight, space, motion, and sound:
their manipulation and use in designing
intentional communications and their
interrelationships with words and graphics.
Also examines the production process,
from needs assessment and proposal wriring
to storyboards and finished program.
PBOS 601 Writing and Graphics:
Integration of Forms (6) Theoretical and
practical approaches to the interrelationship
of writing and graphics. Analysis of
rhe role ofsubjecr, voice, and audience in
determining appropriate visual and verbal
forms. Each student works through a number
ofdesign problems in prepararion for a
culminating individual project. Lab fee
required.
PBOS 602 Language and Form (3) The
relationship of form and meaning in a variety
of rhetorical modes. Analysis ofdiction
and syntax appropriate to various language
situarions and genres. Close arrention to
the shapes ofsentences and rhe language of
meraphor. Lab fee may be required.
PBOS 603 Editorial Style (3) Editorial
style as a toral concept, including rhe historical
contexr of rhe written word; styles
and methods ofediting; and special skills
such as proofreading, line-by-line ediring,
reorganizing, rewriring, working with wrirers
and artisrs, and ediring as management.
Each student becomes rhe editor of his/her
own special project. Lab fee may be
required.
PBOS 604 Writing for the Marketplace
(3) Wriring for various free-lance markers:
fearures and reviews, poerry, fiction, public
relarions, and advertising. Analysis of rhe
audiences to which various publications
appeal, development of a proposed publicarion
aimed at a specific audience. Each student
conducts a thorough investigarion of a
self-selecred marker and prepares whar is
intended to be a publishable manuscript
for that readership.
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