Why go to college? What does it mean to be educated? In this course you'll begin to answer these questions. We'll explore the academic expectations of higher education, college as a diverse community, and the significance of education around the world. By examining how these issues are negotiated and implemented at Champlain and elsewhere, you'll gain perspective on your own education and a deeper understanding of the ways that the college experience can be both liberating and transformative.

Prerequisites	Take Cor-102 concurrently.
Credits	3

Inquiry is about learning how to ask the right kinds of questions, and figuring out how to answer those questions through discussion and reflection. This course introduces you to the types of inquiry necessary to succeed at Champlain and beyond. You will explore the intersections of reading, writing, and thinking by focusing on a specific topic or theme. You will approach that focus through the interrogation of relevant texts and analysis that draws upon multiple analytical frameworks. For detailed descriptions of the individual sections of this course, cut and paste the following link into your browser: bit.ly/core-year-one

Prerequisites	Take COR-101 concurrently.
Credits	3

Introduces students to different aspects of writing and publishing. Students learn about the different career paths available to writers through meeting, interviewing, and writing about a range of working writers. They are introduced to, and practice, multiple 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 workshop and revision skills.

Prerequisites	Course is open to Writing & Publishing majors or Undeclared CCM majors.
Credits	3

Pub Hub (Publishing Hub) is a one-credit course designed for students to participate in assembling a Champlain student-run publication of their choice (The Crossover, Willard & Maple, or Chivomengro) devoted to any combination of: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, journalism, creative essays, plays, photography, and visual art. Students will be required to submit a minimum number of pieces to their publication of choice, as well as participate in weekly staff meetings and the needs of that publication for this 10-week course. Students may take this course twice.

Prerequisites
Credits	1

Students will learn to prepare and deliver informative and persuasive speeches, with an emphasis on researching topics, determining purposes and goals, and organizing content. They will also learn to construct well reasoned persuasive arguments, and how to improve aspects of delivery such as controlling nervousness and developing use of vocal variety.

Prerequisites
Credits	3

What makes an argument good or bad? What counts as evidence in our post-truth world? How can you understand and assess the truth value of a claim when you're not an expert? In this course you'll learn rhetorical strategies about how to examine arguments and types of evidence in different disciplines and fields of study. To help learn these strategies, you will do close readings of texts from a variety of disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences, popular culture, and social media.

Prerequisites	Take COR-104 concurrently.
Credits	3

This course introduces you to interdisciplinary inquiry using applied, project-based, and/or experiential methods. Regardless of the specific course focus, you'll have opportunities for making and doing interdisciplinary knowledge creation through a variety of approaches and activities. You will collaborate with other students, iterate on ideas, and work to develop a project. For detailed descriptions of the individual sections of this course, cut and paste the following link into your browser: bit.ly/core-year-one

Prerequisites	Take Cor-103 concurrently.
Credits	3

This course introduces students to the work of writing creatively, encouraging them to become more attentive readers, as preparation for their own growth as writers. We'll survey a range of literary texts, developing a deeper understanding of how creative genres work, what parameters structure them, and how they might be deployed in our own writing. Students will experiment within their own fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writing. The bedrock of our class will be peer review, so students can read and learn from each others' work.

Prerequisites
Credits	3

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
Credits	3

This course introduces students to the fundamental elements of professional writing (clear, concise, and targeted) that are common among seven forms of workplace?communication: email correspondence, cover letters, resumes, proposals, long formal reports, oral communication, and team projects. 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
Credits	3

Science holds an elevated place in society. The knowledge and meaning that science makes are seen as having a particular and special value. This course explores knowledge and meaning making in order to allow a thoughtful analysis of, and then engagement with, science as a way of knowing, and then engages with the methods and theories of the sciences themselves, to understand the analytical, creative, and generative possibilities of science.

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104.
Credits	3

While each section of COR 202 addresses a different problem, issue, or topic, they all focus on interdisciplinary research. You will collect, analyze, and assess information from different disciplines in order to recognize patterns, contextualize arguments and synthesize ideas while collaborating on a project. Emphasis will be placed on helping you translate and apply what you learn about interdisciplinary research to other professional contexts. For detailed descriptions of the individual sections of this course, cut and paste the following link into your browser: bit.ly/core-year-two

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104.
Credits	3

This one-credit course helps students develop and manage an online presence and understand the basics of marketing, publishing, and promoting their own work on current social media platforms. Students will address how social media can help foster and influence a writing career. The course will look at private vs. public web presence and examine the editing, revising, and marketing steps that create an author's brand. Students will also explore the skills and materials needed to begin searching for internships.

Prerequisites	Complete 15 credits.
Credits	1

This course introduces students to the fundamental elements of professional writing (clear, concise, and targeted) that are common among seven forms of workplace?communication: email correspondence, cover letters, resumes, proposals, long formal reports, oral communication, and team projects. 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
Credits	3

Culture impacts everything we do, experience, and learn, but what is culture? Where does it come from, how does it form, and why does it have such a wide and deep impact on people's lives? This course explores culture as a system of meaning and meaning-making in order to allow for a more thoughtful analysis of, and then engagement with, cultural texts and media using different methodological approaches.

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104.
Credits	3

In this course, you will go in depth about a theoretical perspective that asks you to interrogate systems of power and power relationships. You will learn about the history of that perspective, including how it too was shaped by multiple contexts and compares with other viewpoints. You will use that perspective to analyze a specific topic, collection of texts, or cultural phenomena. For detailed descriptions of the individual sections of this course, cut and paste the following link into your browser: bit.ly/core-year-two

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104.
Credits	3

This course introduces students to the fundamental elements of professional writing (clear, concise, and targeted) that are common among seven forms of workplace?communication: email correspondence, cover letters, resumes, proposals, long formal reports, oral communication, and team projects. 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
Credits	3

Where we are shapes how we understand ourselves and each other. In this course, we will dig into the relationship between place and identity. We will learn how to think spatially, recognizing how one's identity is situated within and constructed through movement through different spaces--be they natural and built environments, rural and urban, or actual and virtual. COR 301 will help us understand the complex meanings of identity in a world defined by movement and change.

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104, COR-201, COR-202, COR-203, COR-204
Credits	3

Field methods are a collection of practices used in the sciences, arts, and humanities to understand phenomena in situ or as it is happening in a specific time and place. In this course, we will apply one or more field methods to research a topic, theme, or question that varies by section. We will learn practices associated with research in the field including but not limited to participant observation, data collection, and experimentation in order to navigate an uncontrolled environment. We will also examine the power dynamics between the researcher, informant, and subject matter to help us understand how, if not practiced ethically, field methods can create or reinforce biases rather than helping us learn with and make sense of the world around us. For detailed descriptions of the individual sections of this course, cut and paste the following link into your browser: bit.ly/core-year-three

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104, COR-201, COR-202, COR-203, COR-204
Credits	3

This course, open to students from any major, will give students exposure to, and interaction with, a wide variety of potential career pathways in publishing, including writing, editing, screenwriting, copyediting, agenting, digital media, illustration, layout/design, publicity, and marketing. Contemporary developments in publishing are studied and discussed. A publishing professional visits the classroom each week. Students form collaborative working teams to embark on a 10-week publishing project they create and implement together.

Prerequisites	Look for 45 completed credits
Credits	3

Reading & Writing: Special Topics 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 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 AND either WRT 220 OR WRT 226 OR WRT 237. Course may be taken up to 3 times for credit.
Credits	3

This course, open to students from any major, will give students exposure to, and interaction with, a wide variety of potential career pathways in publishing, including writing, editing, screenwriting, copyediting, agenting, digital media, illustration, layout/design, publicity, and marketing. Contemporary developments in publishing are studied and discussed. A publishing professional visits the classroom each week. Students form collaborative working teams to embark on a 10-week publishing project they create and implement together.

Prerequisites	Look for 45 completed credits
Credits	3

Reading & Writing: Special Topics 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 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 AND either WRT 220 OR WRT 226 OR WRT 237. Course may be taken up to 3 times for credit.
Credits	3

Students in the CCM Division who enroll in this course earn 3 academic credits for successfully completing 175-214 hours of an internship position at a designated pre-approved internship site. Students will apply skills and aptitudes developed in the classroom and engage in hands-on work in professional settings alongside and under the direction of a worksite supervisor. The student's internship performance is assessed by the site supervisor and a CCM designated internship coordinator.

Prerequisites	CCM Division students only, with 75 credits or more OR students who have taken 1 credit prep course: COM 355, CRE 240, EGD 240, WRT 301, OR VCD 250. CCM 491 through 496 internship courses may be taken multiple times for a maximum of 12 credits total. Internship site and hours must be pre-approved by CCM Dean's office/Internship Coordinator prior to student enrolling in the class for credit
Credits	3

By learning from the past, we can make sense of the present and prepare for the future. In this course, we will learn how the 21st century has been and continues to be shaped by past social practices, ethical frameworks, power relations, and discourses. COR 303 is a course about how we know what we know about the past, and the ways different narratives about the past shape the present. Making connections between past and present will help us better understand how to live and make decisions in a globalized world defined by constant change.

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104, COR-201, COR-202, COR-203, COR-204
Credits	3

Digital methods are widely used forms of inquiry that employ technological tools to interrogate research questions important to the humanities and sciences (including the social sciences). Some examples include digital archiving, data mining, and story mapping. In this course, we will use one or more digital methods or tools to research a topic, theme or question that varies by section, with the express purpose of critiquing and reflecting on its application. This includes an examination of the values, flaws, and impacts of the methods or tools we are using, paying particular attention to their ethical implications and power dynamics. For detailed descriptions of the individual sections of this course, cut and paste the following link into your browser: bit.ly/core-year-three

Prerequisites	Take COR-101, COR-102, COR-103, COR-104, COR-201, COR-202, COR-203, COR-204
Credits	3

This course, open to students from any major, will give students exposure to, and interaction with, a wide variety of potential career pathways in publishing, including writing, editing, screenwriting, copyediting, agenting, digital media, illustration, layout/design, publicity, and marketing. Contemporary developments in publishing are studied and discussed. A publishing professional visits the classroom each week. Students form collaborative working teams to embark on a 10-week publishing project they create and implement together.

Prerequisites	Look for 45 completed credits
Credits	3

Reading & Writing: Special Topics 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 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 AND either WRT 220 OR WRT 226 OR WRT 237. Course may be taken up to 3 times for credit.
Credits	3

Students in the CCM Division who enroll in this course earn 3 academic credits for successfully completing 175-214 hours of an internship position at a designated pre-approved internship site. Students will apply skills and aptitudes developed in the classroom and engage in hands-on work in professional settings alongside and under the direction of a worksite supervisor. The student's internship performance is assessed by the site supervisor and a CCM designated internship coordinator.

Prerequisites	CCM Division students only, with 75 credits or more OR students who have taken 1 credit prep course: COM 355, CRE 240, EGD 240, WRT 301, OR VCD 250. CCM 491 through 496 internship courses may be taken multiple times for a maximum of 12 credits total. Internship site and hours must be pre-approved by CCM Dean's office/Internship Coordinator prior to student enrolling in the class for credit
Credits	3

This one-credit course is designed to support post-graduate plans by serving as a job application laboratory including applying for jobs/internships, sitting for interviews, refining cover letters and resume and learning networking strategies. Students will create and revise a portfolio of their best work.

Prerequisites	WRT-201
Credits	1

This course, open to students from any major, will give students exposure to, and interaction with, a wide variety of potential career pathways in publishing, including writing, editing, screenwriting, copyediting, agenting, digital media, illustration, layout/design, publicity, and marketing. Contemporary developments in publishing are studied and discussed. A publishing professional visits the classroom each week. Students form collaborative working teams to embark on a 10-week publishing project they create and implement together.

Prerequisites	Look for 45 completed credits
Credits	3

Reading & Writing: Special Topics 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 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 AND either WRT 220 OR WRT 226 OR WRT 237. Course may be taken up to 3 times for credit.
Credits	3

The college capstone is an opportunity for students to pursue a self-directed experience in their professional program that intentionally integrates their liberal learning in the Core curriculum with their program learning. In addition to the substantive professional-based hands-on project in this class, the capstone will include a professional ethics component and a self-evaluation/self-reflection component.

Prerequisites	Must complete COR-310, COR-320, and two sections of COR-330 All Game majors (EGPR.BS, GDES.BS, GART.BS must also complete EGD-320 with a minimum grade of C.
Credits	5

Curriculum for Writing & Publishing Major

Writing & Publishing Curriculum

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