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College of the Redwoods
CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE
DEPARTMENT AND COURSE NUMBER: ENGL 70
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered)
COURSE TITLE Student Magazine Production
LECTURE HOURS: 1.0 LAB HOURS: 3.0
DEGREE APPLICABLE
NON-DEGREE APPLICABLE
UNITS: 2.0
PREREQUISITE: none
CO-REQUISITE: none
Eligibility for: Engl 150 Math 105
Request for Exception Attached
GRADING STANDARD: Letter Grade Only CR/NC Only Grade/CR/NC Option
TRANSFERABILITY: CSUS UC NONE
Articulation with UC requested
Maximum Class Size 30
Repeatable yes no Max No. Units 4.0 Max No. Enrollments 2.0
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
This class will produce a student literary magazine, in conjunction with a graphic design class. Students will solicit, select, and edit material for publication, and will market the magazine.
NOTE:
COURSE OUTCOMES/OBJECTIVES: List the primary instructional objectives of the class. Formulate some of them in terms of specific measurable student accomplishments, e.g., specific knowledge and/or skills to be attained as a result of completing this course. For degree-applicable courses, include objectives in the area of “critical thinking.” Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Establish content and format guidelines for student magazine.
2. Apply principles and mechanics of editing.
3. Apply principles of good business communication.
4. Establish and apply criteria for selecting and rejecting literary submissions.
5. Proof read with a high degree of accuracy.
6. Collaborate with writers and editors in making difficult aesthetic judgments.
7. Market and distribute a small literary magazine.

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COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Research comparable student publications
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% of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
2. Design and distribute requests for submissions
3. Review style guidelines, grammar, puntuation; learn editing
5%
5%
10% conventions
4. Establish format and content guidelines 10%
5. Design accetance, rejection, and qualified acceptance
letters
6. Establish acceptance criteria
7. Evaluate submissions-in writing and orally
8. Collaborate on deciding which manuscripts to include
15%
10%
25%
10% in the publication
9. Edit accepted manuscripts for style correctness
10. Proof galleys
11. Distribute magazine
5%
2.5%
2.5%

OR
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APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND MATERIALS: (Indicate textbooks that may be required or recommended, including alternate texts that may be used.)
Text(s)
Title:
Edition:
Author:
Publisher:
Required
Alternate
Recommended
Date Published:
(Additional required, alternate, or recommended texts should be listed on a separate sheet and attached.)
For degree applicable courses the adopted texts have been certified to be college-level:
Yes. Basis for determination:
is used by two or more four-year colleges or universities (certified by the Division Chair, or
Branch Coordinator, or Center Dean)
has been certified by the LAC as being of college level using the Coleman and Dale —Chall
Readability Index Scale.
No. Request for Exception Attached.
If no text or a below college level text is used in a degree applicable course, a Request for Exception form must be completed and a rationale provided. This request for exception will be approved or denied by the
Curriculum Committee.
METHODS TO MEASURE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT:
Please check where appropriate; however, a degree applicable course must have a minimum of one response in category 1, 2, or 3. If category 1 is not checked, the department must explain why substantial writing assignments are an inappropriate basis for at least part of the grade.
1. Substantial writing assignments, including:
essay exam(s) term or other paper(s) laboratory report(s)
written homework reading report(s)
other (specify) evaluation editing and revising student work
If the course is degree applicable, substantial writing assignments in this course are inappropriate because:
The course is primarily computational in nature.
The course primarily involves skill demonstrations or problem solving.
Other rationale (explain)
2. Computational or Non-computational problem-solving demonstrations, including:
exam(s) quizzes homework problems
laboratory report(s) field work
other (specify) collaborative selection of accepted manuscripts will call for written and oral evaluation and persuasion
3. Skill demonstrations, including:
class performance(s)
other (specify)
field work performance exam(s)
4. Objective examinations, including:
multiple choice
completion
true/false
other (specify)
5. Other (specify) Quality of final product/magazine.
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.
matching items

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REQUIRED READING, WRITING, AND OTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:
Over an 18-week presentation of the course, 3 hours per week are required for each unit of credit. ALL
Degree Applicable Credit classes must treat subject matter with a scope and intensity which require the student to study outside of class. Two hours of independent work done out of class are required for each hour of lecture. Lab and activity classes must also require some outside of class work. Outside of the regular class time the students in this class will be doing the following:
Study
Answer questions
Skill practice
Required reading
Problem solving
Written work (essays/compositions/report/analysis/research)
Journal (reaction and evaluation of class, done on a continuing basis throughout the semester)
Observation of or participation in an activity related to course content (e.g., play, museum, concert, debate, meeting, etc.)
Field trips
COLLEGE LEVEL CRITICAL THINKING TASKS/ASSIGNMENTS:
Degree applicable courses must include critical thinking tasks/assignments. This section need not be completed for non-degree applicable courses. Describe how the course requires students to independently analyze, synthesize, explain, assess, anticipate and/or define problems, formulate and assess solutions, apply principles to new situations, etc.
The students will be responsible for establishing the criteria for accepting manuscripts for publication.
As they determine-first independently and then collaboratively-wheher submissions meet the criteria, they will also have the opportunity to ask for changes to be made by the authors as a condition of acceptance. Then they must determine whether changes made comply with editorial expectations.
The students will also have the responsibility of formulating appropriate and considerate rejection letters to accompany returned manuscripts and to determine how the publication will be distributed.

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REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION
The Curriculum Committee is authorized to determine the appropriateness of entrance skills and requisites for any given course; to determine whether or not language and/or computational skills at the associate degree level are essential to success in a given course; to determine what is “college level” in learning skills, vocabulary, and in the ability to think critically and apply concepts; and to determine on a case-by-case basis when any departure from the attached guidelines may be justified.
To request an exception, provide the following information:
English 70
Department and Course No.
Student Magazine Production
Course Title
Nature of the Exception Requested and Rationale: TEXT
Students will be provided with resource grammar, style, and editing materials, as well as sample copies of student literary magazines. The primary work of the course will be the reading, analysis, evaluation, editing, and disposition of the works submitted for publication.
To:
From;
Subject
Technical Review Committee
Marlis H. Broadhead
English 88 —— Student Magazine Production (justification of repeating for a total of tour credits and of listing course in the English department)
Dates December 12, 1990
Allowing a repeat of the course for a total of 4 credits
As with Journalism 2 (Newspaper Practice), English 88 should be repeated for credit. Although the general principles of writing and editing remain constant, the students would be applying the principles to different materials each semester, thus dealing with a broader range Of editorial problems and solutions.
Including the Student Magazine Production course in the English Department
The proposed course will complement an existing course in the Graphics Communication department. In that course, students study the art, graphics, and physical layout/production of the literary magazine. In the English course, however, students will be concerned with the editorial aspects of producing a literary magazine (e.g., conducting business through sound principles of written communication, examining and discussing literature from an editor’s perspectives and providing final proofing of the materials selected for the journal). The proposed course is thus an extension of English 33 (fiction writing) and English 32
(poetry writing), as well as English 206 (creative writing, seniors) and other English courses in which students are required to write essays and to review literature. Finally, the course requires an instructor who is trained primarily in creative writing, with strong experience in the editorial process.