Academic Catalog 2024-25

HONO 2222 Advanced Writing and Research: Effective Communication II

Instruction in advanced principles of expository writing, critical thinking, contextual communications and in-depth mastery of reflective, critical, and academic modes of writing, research and discourse across the disciplines and within and beyond the University. Designed to enhance student awareness of and ability to navigate as effective communicators in today’s poly-modal world. Course builds upon the skills developed in Effective Communication 1 with additional emphasis on histories of visual communication in global contexts (including but not limited to the lives of texts, images, people, civilizations, artifacts, and built environments) and advanced research methods. Students explore and analyze how visual practices have shaped values, experience, identity, and social action in the past and present, while consolidating advanced skills in effective academic writing. Students must complete this course with a 'C' (2.0) or higher to fulfill the second CORE requirement in Effective Communication.

Credits

4.00 units