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AL 242 - Introduction to Experience Architecture

Basic principles of user-centered design as applied to user experience. Usability, information architecture, interaction design, and service design practices, tools, conventions, and professional community.

Average Grade - 3.586
Median Grade - 4.0
58 total students

Latest grades from Fall 2019

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AL 333 - Researching Experience Architecture (W)

Researching for product, services, and processes as applied to user experience. Contextual inquiry, field studies, card sorting, participatory design, interviewing, focus groups, and usability testing. Field trip required.

Average Grade - 3.421
Median Grade - 4.0
39 total students

Latest grades from Summer 2019

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AL 366 - Managing Experience Architecture Projects

Managing user experience projects. Project management, staffing projects, scheduling projects, managing process, writing specifications, sales, budgeting.

Average Grade - 3.560
Median Grade - 4.0
58 total students

Latest grades from Spring 2018

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WRA 110 - Writing: Science and Technology

The study and practice of varieties of invention, arrangement, revision, style and delivery to help students make successful transitions to writing, reading, and researching in higher education.

Average Grade - 3.211
Median Grade - 3.5
19 total students

Latest grades from Summer 2015

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WRA 360 - Design of Print and Digital Documents

Rhetorical and cultural dimensions of composing and designing print and digital documents. Analysis and composing of documents with attention to rhetorical affordances including typography, and color theory.

Average Grade - 3.676
Median Grade - 4.0
91 total students

Latest grades from Fall 2015

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WRA 401 - Rhetoric, Leadership, and Innovation

Exploration of rhetorical theories applied to managing and leading communication in civic and professional organizations. Emphasis on team dynamics and on managing and leading teams and projects. Discussion of entrepreneurial thinking in professional and public writing.

Average Grade - 3.449
Median Grade - 4.0
39 total students

Latest grades from Spring 2020

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WRA 420 - Content Strategy

Exploration of theory, practice, and ethics of content strategy in professional and public writing settings. Understanding the content management life cycle, aligning content strategy to various goals, assessing communication needs for audiences and participants. Issues in project leadership, management, intellectual property, and organizational communication for creating flexible, dynamic content and content structures.

Average Grade - 3.929
Median Grade - 4.0
21 total students

Latest grades from Spring 2016

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WRA 841 - Professional Writing Theory and Research

Theory and research informing technical and professional writing practices. Workplace studies, usability research, information design theory, rhetoric of science and technology, research on computer-mediated writing.

Average Grade - 4.000
Median Grade - 4.0
11 total students

Latest grades from Spring 2021

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WRA 891 - Special Topics in Rhetoric and Writing

Special topics supplementing regular course offerings, proposed by faculty on a group study basis.

Average Grade - 3.346
Median Grade - 4.0
13 total students

Latest grades from Fall 2017

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XA 242 - Introduction to Experience Architecture

Basic principles of user-centered design as applied to user experience. Usability, information architecture, interaction design, and service design practices, tools, conventions, and professional community.

Average Grade - 3.714
Median Grade - 4.0
63 total students

Latest grades from Spring 2022

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