HONO 1100 Effective Communication 1: Reading Popular Media
Reading Popular Media provides students with advanced polymodal training in analyzing and creating diverse forms of written, oral, digital, and visual communication. Students learn to effectively critique and evaluate popular media texts and objects, and to rigorously engage the process of drafting, feedback, and revision in order to produce their own well-designed, carefully researched written texts, oral presentations, and visual communications for different audiences and purposes. With an emphasis on present day, contextual communications and in-depth mastery of reflective, critical, and academic modes of writing and discourse, this course prepares students for communicative success in their college careers and beyond. Students must complete this course with a 'C' (2.0) or higher to fulfill the CORE requirement in Effective Communication.