B.A. in English > Discourse & Technology
DISCOURSE & TECHNOLOGY [27 credits]
New technologies are changing our values and shaping our culture. In turn, the culture demands new technologies designed to respond to these changes. English majors specializing in discourse and technology gain a solid foundation in the background and ideas that inform culture and literary tradition while they learn to solve practical communication problems using technical skills. They come to understand how technologies refashion our cultural values and how those values become the metaphors for new machines. The discourse & technology specialization balances theory and application. Students acquire a well-defined set of marketable skills at the same time that they receive a strong liberal arts education based in the study of literature. To achieve this, each student selects at least one area of practical application (media production, hypermedia, graphic design, or writing) in which to develop skills. To learn how to think about a technology and the culture that surrounds it, students also take courses in language theory and narrative discourse so that they can understand how technology affects society and culture, how it shapes forms of expression, and how it changes the literary discourse. English majors specializing in discourse & technology take the following English courses.
UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS [9 Credits]
- IDIS 300 Ideas in Writing [3]
- IDIS 302 Ethical Issues in Business and Society [3]
- Choose One [3]
ENGLISH REQUIREMENTS [36 credits total]
English Core requirements [9 credits]
- Choose One: [3]
- Period & Context Course–Choose one [3]
- ENGL 311 Wells of the Past
- ENGL 342 Melville, Poe, & Whitman
- ENGL 361 The Hero & the Quest
- ENGL 362 Dante, Chaucer, & Cervantes
- ENGL 366 Milton, Blake, & Yeats
- ENGL 374 Austen, The Brontes, & Woolf
- ENGL 400 Literature in Society
- ENGL 421 The Elizabethan Renaissance
- ENGL 431 The Metaphysical Moment
- ENGL 432 The Age of Reason
- ENGL 441 The Romantic Imagination
- ENGL 442 The Victorian Paradox
- ENGL 450 The Great Moderns
Discourse and Technology Specialization [12 credits]
Application Areas [15 credits]
Directed Project [3 credits]
- With the advice and consent of your advisor, choose five courses from one or more of these application areas.
- Media Production
- CMAT 367 Multi-Image Production
- CMAT 367 Multi-Image Production
- CMAT 369 Digital Video
- CMAT 455 Hypermedia
- CMAT 456 Multimedia Design and Production
- CMAT 469 Advanced Audio/Video Production
- [Other undergraduate and graduate courses
as appropriate]
- Graphic Design
- CMAT 350 Computer Graphics
- CMAT 357 Print Design
- CMAT 358 Electronic Design
- WRIT 374 The Magazine
- WRIT 375 Graphic Design and Production
- [Other undergraduate and graduate courses
as appropriate]
- Writing
- WRIT 313 Writing for Information Systems
- WRIT 316 Creative Journalism
- WRIT 317 Techniques of Popularization
- WRIT 320 Writing for Managers and Executives
- WRIT 330 Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- WRIT 331 Public Relations Writing
- WRIT 361 Writing for the Media
- WRIT 371 Advertising: Writing and Layout
- WRIT 430 Copy Editing and Document Design
- WRIT 475 Media Criticism
- [Other undergraduate and graduate courses
as appropriate]
General Electives
- Students need a minimum of 120 total credits to graduate. Students transferring to UB with 60 credits will need 15 credits of general electives from anywhere in the university. Students transferring fewer or more credits will adjust this number accordingly.
For more information, contact:
- Dr. Virginia Carruthers
410-837-6027
vcarruthers@ubalt.edu
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