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Available Courses

• ENGL 300 : texts and contexts

  • Teacher: Helen J Burgess

  

  [SPRING 2009] [TTH] [2:30PM-3:45PM]
  This course exposes students to critical traditions and techniques in the analysis of a wide variety of texts, including those produced in professional, academic, and domestic settings. Central to this analysis will be consideration of the historical contexts in which these texts are created and experienced, and the people and tools involved in these processes. Students enrolled in the course will gain insights to the rhetorical dimension of communication by examining how texts composed in various media--oral, written, visual, blended--are produced, responded to, circulated, and adapted to new purposes.
• ENGL 324 : theories of communication and technology

  • Teacher: Helen J Burgess

  

  [SPRING 2009] [TTH] [4:00PM-5:15PM]
  We interact with technology every day -- our computers, cellphones, ipods; our televisions, radios and microwaves. But we don't think much about the technology that underlies all of human communication -- language. From our first vocalizations and gestures, to the supercomputers that process data today, language in some fashion underlies all of our communication practices.
  In this class we will think and talk consciously about the intersections between language, communication and the technologies with which we interact. We will look at the differences between oral and written forms of expression, between written and print culture, and between print and electronic communication.
• ENGL 387 : multimedia and web authoring

    

  [FALL 2008] [TTH] [1:00PM-2:15PM]
  In this class, we'll be learning how to build attractive, functional, usable websites. We'll learn the practical skills needed to create web pages and put them online. Over the course of the semester, in intensive lab classes, We'll learn how to code XHTML (eXtensible hypertext markup language) and how to implement CSS (cascading style sheets). We'll also learn how to think intelligently about web design. We'll learn how writing for the web differs from other forms of writing, how the web does (or doesn't) respond to the issue of audience, and how to make our websites more usable and more accessible.
• ENGL 442 : seminar in visual literacy

  • Teacher: Helen J Burgess

  

  [SPRING 2009] [W] [7:10PM-9:30PM]
  Just as texts can be read if we learn to speak the language (both literally and structurally), so too can we learn to "read" images, which have their own kind of language - a visual one. This class will focus on the reading, interpretation and creation of visual culture in the form of images, type and graphic novels. It will also investigate ways in which visual and textual languages often cross over - from cave paintings to the language of typography.
  
• ENGL 493 : the culture of the copy

  • Teacher: Helen J Burgess

  

  [FALL 2007]
  This seminar will cover issues of information ownership, copyright and exchange in digital cultures. We will start with a general overview of what it means to "own" objects and information within an economy of exchange, and move into information economies and their relationship to technological developments. We will learn about the current "copyright wars" and their relationship to developing movements in open source and open content.
• dtc 499 : summer skills modules [retired]

  • Teacher: Helen J Burgess

    

  dtc 499 : skills modules

  This is the home of the DTC skills summer modules covering UNIX basics, site hosting, dreamweaver, and dynamic site building using php and mySQL. These modules were created in 2006 for DTC seniors at WSU Vancouver.