2003-2005 - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

PROS 605 Public and Private Languages
(3) An examination of me "private" or specialized
languages ofvarious professions
(e.g., science, medicine, education, government,
and politics) and the means by which
these languages may be translated for the
public. Each student investigates through
intensive reading, study, and imitation of at
least one specialized language and attempts
to become expert in adapting and/or
decoding that language for public consumption.
PROS 606 Creating Technical
Documents (3) Writing and design of
manuscripts directed to professional and lay
audiences, including technical proposals,
manuals, and software documentation.
Emphasis on integration of text with graphics
such as charts, graphs, drawings, and
photographs.
PROS 611 The Craft of Popularization
(3) Writing for a lay audience about subjects
that are technically or scientifically
challenging, or normally fall within the
province of the scholar and specialist, or
otherwise resist instant understanding.
Emphasis on clarity, precision, and grace
of expression.
PROS 620 Creativity: Integration of
Forms (6) Exploration of the creative
process, relationships between written and
visual expression, sources of inspiration,
and forms of publishing. Through a series
of weekly projects, design experiments, and
innovative models, students will develop
new ways ofseeing and deepen their understanding
of creative expression. Team
taught by a creative writer and a book artist
or graphic designer, the course offers a collaborative
setting that acknowledges important
connections between form and
function, materials and subject, tradition
and innovation. Lab fee required.
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PROS 622 The Art of Narrative (3) An
exploration of the uses and values of narrative.
Combines practice in writing narratives
wim analysis of me nature and
methods of narrative art.
PROS 623 The Lyric Spirit (3) How
poetic language achieves its powerful
effects. Students read and analyze various
examples of me lyric, from the traditional
poetic forms to images in advertising and
media, and experiment with a range of lyrical
forms and styles.
PROS 624 Workshop in Novel Writing
(3) The composition of the novel. Each
student has an opportunity to make significant
progress on a novel already begun or
on one that originates in class. Emphasis on
the distinctive features of me novel as a
prose form and the special aesthetic problems
confronting the novelist.
PBOS 625 Script Writing (3) Extensive
practice in writing media scripts: dramatic,
informational, and persuasive. Emphasizes
differences between writing for print and
writing for aural and visual media.
PBOS 626 Literary Nonfiction (3)
Experimentation in writing various kinds
of nonfiction, such as personal essays, travel
essays, profiles, culrure criticism, memoirs,
and essay reviews. Focus is on me use of
literary techniques wimin me context of
me form's traditions and contemporary
innovations.
PBOS 627 The Art of Memoir (3) An
opportunity to write memoir. Students read
and study memoirs by contemporary
authors to become more familiar with the
many possibiJities available to writers working
in this form . They focus on issues relevant
to me writing of memoir, including
craft and techniques, memory and truth
telling, interior and exterior significance.