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2017-2018 Undergraduate College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Web Site Develop and Management
  

  • WEB 370 - Usability and Design

    Students will consider usability issues faced by web and application designers and will apply available research methods, tools and techniques to assess and build user interfaces. Major topics include cognitive models, needs analysis, user analysis, heuristic evaluation, prototyping and practical evaluation tools and techniques. While developing a real-world application, students will collect and evaluate many kinds of data about users and their activities and translate them into design decisions.
    Prerequisites: Complete CSI-240 or WEB-225 or consent of the instructor.
    Credits: 3
    ITS
  

  • WEB 420 - Server-Side Alternatives

    Each of the alternative languages available for Server-Side Scripting has a loyal following of devotees. Find out about a number of the alterna- tive languages and their strengths and weaknesses for building practical web applications. Students will study Python and PHP as well as be introduced to Ruby.
    Prerequisites: WEB-350
    Credits: 3
    ITS
  

  • WEB 425 - Web Services

    In this course, students willieam about web services and the Application Programming Interfaces used to access them. In addition students will learn the languages and protocols used for back-end communications between web servers. Students will gain experienre in developing effective, reliable, and secure web services. They will also develop sufficient background to select appropriate technologies languages, protocols, and APIs.
    Prerequisites: WEB-320, WEB-340
    Credits: 3
    ITS
  

  • WEB 440 - Applying XSL/XSLT

    In order to display documents written with,Extensible Markup Language (XML), it is necessary,to have a mechanism to describe how the document,should be displayed. The preferred style sheet,language of XML is XSL. XSL and XSLT provide a far,more sophisticated system than CSS for formatting,and displaying web pages. This course covers XSL,and XSLT and provides students with an,understanding of how to transform XML documents,using XSL and how to format those documents using,XSLT.
    Prerequisites: WEB-340
    Credits: 3
    ITS
  

  • WEB 450 - Senior Thesis Project

    A senior research project to be completed in ,collaboration with an ACS faculty member. Students,will design a project that will include a,research component and an application component. ,The project will address a contemporary computer,information system industry challenge. Students,will be required to demonstrate their,understanding of the subject by presenting and,demonstrating the applied elements of their,research. Presentations and demonstrations will be,made to faculty, students,and invited guests.
    Prerequisites: Must complete 90 credits before taking this course.
    Credits: 3
    ITS
  

  • WEB 455 - Animation & Interactivity II

    Teaches the creative use of multimedia,interactivity to build advanced animated,vector-based Flash websites with built-in,functionality, interactivity, and accessibility.,Flash has become the most popular application for,creating high-impact, fully interactive web sites,and students will learn advanced Flash animation,techniques and intermediate action scripting to,connect text, images, animation, sound, and video.,Students will build interactive web sites,utilizing multi-media formats saved in Flash.,Students will create dynamic text, animated,graphics, vector-based navigation and interactive,interfaces as well as logos and active buttons to,design a coordinated and exciting web presence.
    Prerequisites: WEB-355
    Credits: 3
    ITS

Writing
  

  • WRT 100 - Writing Profession, Introduction to

    Introduces students to writing as a profession. Students learn about the different career paths available to writers though meeting interviewing, and writing about a range of working writers. They are introduced to, and practice, various forms of writing, and begin to develop a sense of their own interests and preferences. They learn to collaborate with each other, and to practice skillful revisions that lead to a portfolio. The course also addresses some of the basics of written English.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 110 - Literary Magazine I

    Literary Magazine is a one credit course that provides a setting where students can experience the practical elements of assembling a magazine devoted to publishing poetry, fiction, creative essays, plays, photography, and visual art. Projects will be assigned in soliciting work, the selection of material, editorial correspondence copy editing, and distribution. Students may take this one credit elective twice.
    Credits: 1
    CCM
  

  • WRT 120 - Creative Writing, Introduction to

    Introduction to Creative Writing explores techniques used by poets and fiction writers in their crafts. Students will analyze examples of published works and will produce portfolios of original works. Workshop activity is required; students must share their work with the entire class.
    Prerequisites: ENG-111 OR COR-115
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 180 - Introduction to Songwriting

    Explore and develop various songwriting techniques and also learn the history of songwriting and develop a deeper understanding of the role songwriting plays in society and culture. The course leads up to a short public performance. No previous performance experience necessary; only basic instrument and/or singing skills required.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 200 - Fundamentals of Journalism

    This course introduces students to the basic skills of reporting with hands-on experience in gathering news interviewing, researching, and investigating. Students draft, edit and finalize news stories, profiles, features news-features reviews, and commentaries. Peer reviews and writing workshops will improve students’ abilities to self-edit. Analytical discussion of current news is a central element of the course. Students also examine the contemporary news/media environment, corporate ownership of news organizations, and the central function that a free press plays in American democracy.
    Prerequisites: ENG-111 OR COR-115
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 201 - Professional Writing Portfolio I

    This one-credit course teaches students to select from the work they have done over the previous year, revise and edit it as necessary, polish it to the highest standards and present it as part of an electronic portfolio, blog and/or website. Students will also reflect on, discuss and write about their continuing development as writers, and their progress toward their chosen writing fields.
    Prerequisites: WRT-100 Must complete 30 credits before taking this course.
    Credits: 1
    CCM
  

  • WRT 205 - Online Journalism

    Students will investigate the sphere of online journalism. They will learn to write and illustrate stories tailor-made for a web audience. Drawing upon in-class discussions and homework assignments, they will develop an understanding of sources, approach and voice and learn how to command attention by writing stories that stand out. Students will create their own online pieces with interactive elements, and strategize a revamping of, or help boost a local company’s web efforts with their expertise.
    Prerequisites: WRT-200
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 210 - Literary Magazine II

    Literary Magazine is a one credit course that provides a setting where students can experience the practical elements of assembling a magazine devoted to publishing poetry, fiction, creative essays, plays, photography, and visual art. Projects will be assigned in soliciting work, the selection of material, editorial correspondence copy editing, and distribution. Students may take this one credit elective twice.
    Prerequisites: WRT-110
    Credits: 1
    CCM
  

  • WRT 215 - Magazine Publishing

    This course is an introduction to the basic principles of magazine writing and publishing for consumer and nonprofit publications. Students will learn and use appropriate industry terminology to explore the editorial missions and demographic strategies of several well-known national magazines; plan, write and edit magazine feature, profile and departmental stories; and work in teams to execute a unique magazine project that will be conceived, written, edited, designed and published in class.
    Note: This course does not cover literary or academic publishing.
    Prerequisites: WRT 200 Fundamentals of Journalism
    Credits: 3
    CCM (Communication and Creative Media)
  

  • WRT 220 - Creative Writing, Intermediate

    This course will further explore techniques used by poets and fiction writers. Students will not only continue to analyze published works, produce portfolios of original work, and participate in the workshop process, but they will also be expected to submit their own writing for regional and national publication, as well as perform original poems/stories at a public reading.
    Prerequisites: WRT-120
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 221 - Intermediate Poetry Workshop

    Intermediate Poetry Workshop will emphasize a close reading of text and discussions on matters of craft in a workshop setting. Additionally this course will promote an understanding of form and language by providing a broad range of models, use prompts to develop students’ skills and present students with various problems inherent to writing so that they can articulate their own voices and concerns orally and in writing. This course will culminate in an original, revised poetry manuscript and public reading.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 225 - Life Stories: Ethnographic Writing

    Students will learn how to research a subject’s personal, cultural, historical and social past and how to conduct an in-depth interview. Working with a community partner from a very different walk of life to their own, they will conduct a recorded interview that explores some significant aspect of their partner?s past, and create an extended story suitable for publication and/or archiving. The importance and meaning of story both to the individual and society, will be explored in detail.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112 or COR-125
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 226 - Intermediate Fiction Workshop

    An exploration of fiction writing for students who have already made some inroads into the genre. Presented as a writing workshop, the class reads and discusses short stories, novels, and essays on the art and craft of fiction writing. Students experiment in short fiction, while becoming discerning readers of canonical and contemporary published fiction, as well as the work of their peers. Coursework will lead up to a final portfolio of at least 40 pages of polished work and a final public reading.
    Prerequisites: WRT-120
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 231 - Technical Writing

    This course introduces students to the fundamental elements of technical writing (clear, concise, and targeted)that are common among seven forms of technical communication: email correspondence editing employment communication, proposals, long formal reports oral communication, and inventions. Through peer reviews and writing workshops students develop the ability to write and edit text that precisely targets its audience. This course emphasizes deepening and broadening students’ writing, speaking, and thinking abilities in a non-lecture-based, hands-on discussion-centered classroom.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112 or COR-125
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 235 - Writing Children’s Literature

    Students read and discuss a large number of children’s picture books and study the history psychology and business of writing for children. They examine such devices as rhythm, repetition theme, character and the relationship between image and word, and write three picture book manuscripts, plus one book review and two essays exploring their own thoughts about picture books and children’s stories.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112 OR COR-125 OR PERMISSION OF PROGRAM DIRECTOR
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 236 - Writing About Food

    Food is central to our economy, our family lives our rituals of love and death, our beliefs about health and the world around us. In addition to helping students learn about food, food history food makers and food processes, this course helps students develop interview skills, description and narrative, analysis, research and sensory self-awareness.
    Prerequisites: 60 Completed Credits
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 237 - Intermediate Creative Non-Fiction

    A workshop in creative non-fiction for students who have initial exposure to the genre. Students read and discuss various exemplary texts, as well as one another’s work, with emphasis on the articulation and development of imaginative disciplined craft. Coursework will conclude with a final portfolio of revised, polished work and a public presentation.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 280 - Reading & Writing in the Wilderness

    Combines the study of nature literature with an intensive, journal-based writing practice. The course includes two Saturday/Sunday excursions into local wilderness areas. We will read writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Leopold Dillard, Halpern, Lord, Elder, and Carson. A continued emphasis is placed on improving writing skills. Note: students are responsible for providing their own equipment and food for the outings.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112 OR COR-125
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 301 - Professional Writing Portfolio II

    This one-credit course teaches students to develop their written and electronic portfolios, to expand the reach and interactivity of their online presence, and develop their ideas for the Capstone project they will undertake in their senior year. Students will also reflect on, discuss and write about their continuing development as writers, and their progress toward their chosen writing fields.
    Prerequisites: WRT-201
    Credits: 1
    CCM
  

  • WRT 310 - Grant Writing

    This course introduces students to research methods, project management principles, and document production processes needed for effective practice in professional writing contexts. Grant writing, annual reports, strategic plans proposals and e-writing are some of the genres students learn to master.
    Prerequisites: Complete WRT-231 or by permission of the Program Director.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 324 - Advanced Poetry Workshop

    This upper-level creative writing course allows and requires students to apply critical and creative thinking to the study, practice, and creation of poetry. Working closely within the workshop and with the faculty member, students will vigorously read, discuss, and analyze through writing, poetic craft and criticism from a global perspective. Students will also practice the poet’s regimen of writing, revising, and performing an extended poetry collection, as well as exploring avenues for the publication of single poems and a chapbook.
    Prerequisites: WRT-220
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 325 - Advanced Fiction Workshop

    This course is an intensive exploration of fiction writing. Presented as a seminar and writing workshop, the class reads and discusses short stories, novels, and essays on the art and craft of fiction writing. Writing three short stories (or the equivalent in chapters of a novel/novella) leads students to integrate theory and practice as they produce work informed by a detailed understanding of such common fictional elements as character, plot, setting, and conflict as well as more advanced concepts that foster finely wrought creative work. Students submit at least one original work for publication.
    Prerequisites: WRT-220 or permission of Program Director.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 326 - Reviewing

    Students learn the basics of reviewing, applying their skills primarily to film, TV and theater but with the opportunity for a broader final reviewing project in other areas approved by the instructor. Students will keep a Reviewer?s Notebook and make entries in it for every class. Some out-of-class attendance required.
    Prerequisites: WRT-120 or WRT-137 or permission of Program Director.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 327 - Seminar in Playwriting

    This course explores the fundamentals of playwriting. Students will read and discuss a variety of modem plays and performance texts respond orally and in writing to what they1ve seen and read, and write dramatic pieces: exercises, scenes, short plays. The class will focus on creating believable and natural dialogue, developing characters, and communicating dramatic tension. By the end of the class, students will have a polished, working draft of a one-act play suitable to be submitted for production.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112 and a Literature Elective or permission of Program Director
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 328 - Travel Writing

    For students wishing to study abroad or write about their regional, national, or overseas travels, the course encourages the development of travel writing skills, translating what students experience into publishable articles. Students, in all majors, learn to take in, digest and make sense of their new experiences, to share them with others in the class and potentially in the campus community, and to learn writing skills in the process. Through online lectures discussions, and writing exercises, students learn how to research ideas, craft compelling pieces and tailor the work for the marketplace.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112 and 60 completed credits
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 330 - Independent Writing Project

    An individual writing project, supervised by a faculty member with expertise in the chosen area. This course is only offered under exceptional circumstances and by specific permission of the Program Director.
    Credits: 1
    CCM
  

  • WRT 335 - Writing the City

    “Writing the City”, which is offered only on Champlain’s campuses in Montreal and Dublin presents a series of guided explorations, some of them leading to specific writing assignments and others open to a variety of writing responses that take the student out into the city to meet people from a variety of backgrounds and have a diverse range of experiences. The outcome is a weekly seminar-style class at which writing is presented discussed and developed for possible publication.
    Prerequisites: 60 completed credits
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 337 - Creative Non-Fiction, Advanced

    This course will explore various forms of creative non-fiction, especially the memoir, with the aim of combining personal narrative with elements of reflection, research, exposition and description. Students will work through a variety of creative exercises toward a final extended piece of writing that combines personal investment with the choice of a substantial subject.
    Prerequisites: WRT-137 and 57 completed credits or permission of Program Director
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 340 - Advanced Journalism Practicum: Writing

    This course builds on journalism skills and approaches learned in WRT 200 Print Journalism to teach the student to write more complex stories that require gathering and assimilating a greater range of information asking more penetrating questions comprehending and explaining more sophisticated and multi-faceted subjects, and/or first-person participation. Skills learned in WRT 205 Writing and Producing Online Journalism may also be used. The course follows the rigorous framework and demands of a regular newspaper publication schedule, and it is expected that stories written in this class will be submitted for publication.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112 Must complete 60 credits before taking this course and have permission of Program Director.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 345 - Professional Copy Editing

    Introduction to Professional Copy Editing introduces students to the editing of materials from a number of sources, both literary and scientific, in order to strengthen writing skills by sharpening the students eye for detail and thus, the ability to recognize and correct errors and awkward grammatical constructions. Students will learn the specifics of editorial notation the rigors of following the points of specific style manuals, and the requirements for creating a clean and correct final document. In learning these skills, students will be acquiring not only the marketable ability to copy edit manuscripts but also the knowledge and awareness needed to become better writers of their own material.
    Prerequisites: ENG-112; Must complete 60 credits before taking this course or have permission of the Program Director.
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 346 - Publishing in the 21st Century

    This course, which is open to students from all majors, takes advantage of the unique Champlain College Publishing Initiative to give students a hands-on working experience in all aspects of publication: writing, editing, copy-editing research, illustration, layout/design, cover art promotion, publicity, event management, marketing web design and usage, business and legal issues. Contemporary developments in publication are also studied and discussed, and when possible incorporated into publishing strategies.
    Prerequisites: 60 completed credits
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 347 - Transmedia Storytelling

    Students will learn to conceive and create stories-fictional and non-fictional-for distribution through a network of media platforms, an approach known as transmedia storytelling. Drawing on the theoretical work of influential media scholars and on the applied work of leading transmedia storytellers, students will gain an understanding of transmedia storytelling as an emergent phenomenon that illuminates profound shifts in how contemporary audiences gather, consume, and even co-create content-and the implications for content producers working in myriad communications disciplines.
    Prerequisites: COM 120 Media and Society; WRT 200 Fundamentals of Journalism OR WRT 220 Intermediate Creative Writing
    Credits: 3
    CCM (Communication and Creative Media)
  

  • WRT 350 - Reading and Writing in Genre

    Reading and Writing Genre is a rotating subject course that offers students the opportunity to read and write deeply across a broad spectrum of artistic, cultural and historic literature in specific genres - both English and translated - to be as representative as possible of the world literature canon. Genres covered in each course will vary based on the changing market and student interests.
    Prerequisites: WRT 120 Introduction to Creative Writing; WRT 220 Intermediate Creative Writing

    Course can be taken twice for credit.
    Credits: 3
    CCM (Communication and Creative Media)
  

  • WRT 401 - Professional Writing Portfolio III

    This one-credit course teaches students to select from the entire range of their written work polish and develop the best of their output and present it in a professional, interesting interactive and imaginative way, both online and in paper form. These portfolios will be submitted to Champlain faculty, Careers Office personnel and local professional practitioners who will offer their comments and advice for development.
    Prerequisites: WRT-301
    Credits: 1
    CCM
  

  • WRT 405 - Practical Freelancing

    Practical Freelancing involves the culmination of,the student’s growth from writing student to,practicing writer. The course introduces students,to a range of skills they will need to be,successful entrepreneurs, teaches students how to,apply those skills to their particular needs as,freelance writers, and then shows them how to,create a written action plan that combines the,strategies and resources they will need to begin,their career on graduation.,,
    Prerequisites: PWRT.BS seniors only
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 470 - Senior Seminar: Writing

    The Senior Seminar gives the most committed students an opportunity to explore their particular writing specialization to the highest undergraduate levels. (See description of individual seminar for course details.) Students read, discuss, and write about the most ambitious published writing in the genre, will prepare and lead seminars, take part in a public reading and create a portfolio of work that meets the standards for professional publication and/or admission to graduate school.
    Prerequisites: Permission of Dean
    Credits: 3
    CCM
  

  • WRT 490 - Professional Writing Internship

    This course is a supervised professional writing,placement that entails approximately 140 hours,working in a responsible position related to the,student’s career interests. This experience,provides the student with the opportunity to,explore and to grow in knowledge and experience in,a manner that will give focus to his or her,intended career interests as well as enable him or,her to gain valuable practical experience. The,student will be supervised overall by an assigned,faculty member and onsite by a qualified,professional who has agreed to serve as mentor and,supervisor.
    Prerequisites: Complete 30 credits of WRT courses
    Credits: 3
    CCM

Information Technology and Sciences
  

  • ITS 380 - Science, Technology & Fiction

    Students will conceptualize, discuss, debate examine, reverse engineer and revel in the technology and innovations depicted in fiction and popular culture media such as TV shows movies, games and comic books, past and present. This is an avenue for exploring technical devices and scientific concepts while considering the creative, mechanical, logical, historical ethical and social aspects of technology. Students will actively research technological possibilities and analyze innovative devices.
    Prerequisites: 60 COMPLETED CREDITS.
    Credits: 3
    ITS
  

  • ITS 420 - IT Management

    This course provides a comprehensive study of the common issues, processes, methods, and challenges oflnformation Technology Management. The content will cover management from a number of perspectives: staff, middle management executive. The capabilities, implementation issues, and management of enterprise information systems and IT resources will be integrated into the course content.
    Prerequisites: ITS Major with 90 or more credits.
    Credits: 3
    ITS

Information Security
  

  • SEC 350 - Enterprise and Perimeter Security

    Students will examine network-based attacks, whether originating from the Internet or the local LAN, and learn about ways to protect, detect, and defend the enterprise network from such attacks. The course will cover perimeter security (Firewalls, IDS, IPS, VPN, proxy servers) enterprise security policies, as well as securing devices on large-scale distributed networks. Students will participate in hands-on experiments and demonstrate their understanding of subject matter via writing and presentations.
    Prerequisites: NET-215 with grade of C or better; NET-255 with grade of C or better; SEC-250 with C or better
    Credits: 3
    ITS (Information Technology and Sciences)

Multimedia & Graphic Design
  

  • MMG 490 - MMG Field Experience

    An individually supervised experience in a selected profit or not-for-profit organization. Provides opportunity for career exploration and to observe and develop technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills. Specific experiences are developed for each workplace.
    Prerequisites: Multimedia & Graphic Design Program students only. Must complete 100 credits before taking this course.
    Credits: 4
    CCM
 

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