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English 1101 – Psychology + Writing: Discovering Your Best Self invites you to join us on a journey of discovering your best self through psychology and writing. Learn how we are all shaped by biological, social, and cultural forces. Practice shaping your identity as a consumer and producer of knowledge and make your mark as a member of the City Tech community. Connect, coexist, and learn what it means to be a global citizen from each other in our language- and communication-based world.

English 1101 – Psychology + Writing: Discovering Your Best Self invites you to join us on a journey of discovering your best self through psychology and writing. Learn how we are all shaped by biological, social, and cultural forces. Practice shaping your identity as a consumer and producer of knowledge and make your mark as a member of the City Tech community. Connect, coexist, and learn what it means to be a global citizen from each other in our language- and communication-based world.

This course will allow students to examine the relationship between film and their literary sources. Through classroom discussions and out-of-class assignments, students will analyze classic and contemporary literary texts and their cinematic versions. Students will examine the relationship between film and literature, with specific focus on the techniques used in fiction, drama and film and the influences of censorship and society. Students will focus on the similarities and differences of literary works adapted into films.

This course will allow students to examine the relationship between film and their literary sources. Through classroom discussions and out-of-class assignments, students will analyze classic and contemporary literary texts and their cinematic versions. Students will examine the relationship between film and literature, with specific focus on the techniques used in fiction, drama and film and the influences of censorship and society. Students will focus on the similarities and differences of literary works adapted into films.

We invite you to join us on a journey of discovering your dopest self through psychology and writing. In this course, you will learn how to examine, articulate, and shape your identity as a consumer and producer of knowledge by exercising psychological and rhetorical principles. You will develop a framework for understanding thoughts, feelings, actions, and communication as they are shaped by biological, social, and cultural forces. By the end of this learning community, you will understand how and why it is essential to connect, coexist, and learn from bold other selves who are different than you in our language-using, communication-based world. Oh, and you will learn to slay as you do it.

We invite you to join us on a journey of discovering your dopest self through psychology and writing. In this course, you will learn how to examine, articulate, and shape your identity as a consumer and producer of knowledge by exercising psychological and rhetorical principles. You will develop a framework for understanding thoughts, feelings, actions, and communication as they are shaped by biological, social, and cultural forces. By the end of this learning community, you will understand how and why it is essential to connect, coexist, and learn from bold other selves who are different than you in our language-using, communication-based world. Oh, and you will learn to slay as you do it.

This is a course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques, including use of the library. Demanding readings are assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing.

This is a course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques, including use of the library. Demanding readings are assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing.

English 2575, Technical Writing, will provide you with the opportunity to improve your ability to compose documents based on technical information through applied study and critique. You will develop the knowledge, skills, and processes necessary to compose these documents under constraints typically found in the workplace. You will be evaluated throughout the process of researching, organizing, writing, revising, and presenting your documents. In this course, you will begin to develop the concepts and language necessary to approach document design problems from a technical writing perspective. The use of visual aids and graphic illustrations is introduced, along with audience analysis, problem-solving, and an awareness of the role that technical writing plays in project development. Types of technical genres that you will analyze or compose may include, but will not limited to: summarizations, definitions, processes, visualizations, researched texts, oral presentations, and informal documents.

English 2575, Technical Writing, will provide you with the opportunity to improve your ability to compose documents based on technical information through applied study and critique. You will develop the knowledge, skills, and processes necessary to compose these documents under constraints typically found in the workplace. You will be evaluated throughout the process of researching, organizing, writing, revising, and presenting your documents. In this course, you will begin to develop the concepts and language necessary to approach document design problems from a technical writing perspective. The use of visual aids and graphic illustrations is introduced, along with audience analysis, problem-solving, and an awareness of the role that technical writing plays in project development. Types of technical genres that you will analyze or compose may include, but will not limited to: summarizations, definitions, processes, visualizations, researched texts, oral presentations, and informal documents.