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An introduction to writing style, rhetorical strategy, research methods, and best practices for writing website content while learning the basics of user experience (UX), search engine optimization, and content management systems as they relate to writing.

Writing skills, practices, and genres for the workplace, such as resumes, job applications, memos, emails, and reports, that support business processes and communication for diverse audiences.

This course explores the tremendous diversity of world writing systems and shares the challenges and the thrill of deciphering ancient scripts. It reveals how every writing system was embedded in its linguistic, historical, and cultural setting. Students begin with trying to define writing and to distinguish it from its precursors and other ways of recording and transmitting information. The course will also discuss the emergence of writing and its many deaths.

Instruction and practice with the major genres and argumentative structures of writing from observation, interviews and artifacts as in some social sciences and creative writing. Special emphasis on how writing shapes disciplinary knowledge in methodologies for qualitative research and fieldwork, including ethnography.

Students learn the processes of developing proposals and grants from writing external requests for proposals.

This course is a seminar for undergraduate students in French that focuses on writings on immigration in the context of all movement of immigrants in the French-speaking world, not just the French metropole and its immigrant neighborhoods. Writings cover a range of experiences and social classes, from an elite class of immigrants to clandestine immigration. Interdisciplinary critical theory is an important tool in literary analysis for this course.

Students learn the writing skills needed for advanced courses in Sociology. American Sociological Association stylebook; how to conduct library and internet for quantitative research papers, qualitative research papers, book reviews, compare

Exploration of several methodological approaches to social research in the urban area. Group research projects utilizing these techniques to explore an urban problem in depth. Includes preparation of one or more papers totaling at least 15 pages. Students will receive comments and suggestions on the preparation of their paper and on their writing as it progresses. May not be repeated.

Students study current theory, research, and practice in specialized areas of documents relative to key industries of the field.