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Imagine using your research and writing skills to explore real-world topics while collaborating with professionals from a variety of fields. Or picture crafting compelling narratives based on interviews and firsthand experiences. If you’re excited about applying your understanding of rhetoric, analysis, and storytelling to real-world careers, our VLACS Projects are the perfect fit for you!
This engaging learning pathway allows students to explore various career fields while mastering key concepts and skills. For each competency, you can choose to complete a pre-designed project that simulates real-life career tasks or create your own unique learning experience. Regardless of your choice, you’ll engage in thorough research and apply what you learn to authentic career scenarios.
With the pre-designed projects, you’ll tackle real-world tasks that align with each competency. If you decide to design your own experience, you’ll collaborate with your instructor and a mentor to design and complete meaningful career tasks that demonstrate your understanding. We have partnered with hundreds of mentors you can work with if you choose to design your own experience. Check out our Career Mentor Catalog here.
Take a look at the competency statements and pre-designed options below. We’re excited to support you on this exciting and open-ended learning adventure!
Note: This is a project-based course. If you’re looking for a traditional format, please return to the learning catalog and select the course.
Projects
Literary Essentials
Competency: Literary Essentials
You are a public relations specialist who is responsible for crafting compelling narratives, writing press materials, and developing engaging content for media and public audiences. Your role requires strong communication skills and a deep understanding of storytelling techniques, which will require an understanding of literary essentials. You will create a press release that will explain elements in fiction, create a synopsis of a literary text, and describe sentence variety to ensure clear, captivating, and well-structured messaging.
Writing Styles
Competency: Writing Styles
You are an elected official, responsible for communicating policies, advocating for constituents, and drafting speeches, proposals, and public statements. Your role requires clear, persuasive, and well-structured communication, which will require an understanding of writing styles.
You will create a policy speech that will describe text structures, explain rhetorical appeals, and summarize the development of opposing arguments to effectively present your position while addressing diverse perspectives.
Art of Argument
Competency: Art of Argument
You are a historian who is dedicated to researching and analyzing past events to provide insight into their causes, effects, and significance. Your role involves constructing well-supported interpretations and engaging in scholarly discourse, which will require an understanding of the art of the argument. You will create a historical analysis essay that will explain argumentative elements, create an argumentative essay, and describe satire as a rhetorical tool used to critique historical and social events.
Writing with Research
Competency: Writing with Research
You are an environmental scientist who is dedicated to studying and addressing environmental challenges through research and data analysis. Your role involves communicating scientific findings to inform policies and solutions, which will require an understanding of writing with research. You will create a research-based environmental report that will explain the synthesis of information, create an expository essay, and create an expository presentation.
Epic Literature
Competency: Epic Literature
You are a folklorist who is dedicated to studying and preserving traditional stories, myths, and legends from various cultures. Your role involves analyzing the recurring themes and archetypes in epic narratives, which will require an understanding of epic literature. You will create a comparative mythology research report that will describe literary archetypes, explain universal themes, and analyze adaptations of dramatic literature.
Epic Narratives
Competency: Epic Narratives
You are a narrative designer who is dedicated to crafting immersive and engaging stories for interactive media, such as video games and role-playing experiences. Your role involves designing rich, epic narratives that draw from classic storytelling structures and mythological archetypes, which will require an understanding of epic narratives. You will create a world-building guide that will explain the history of words, summarize elements of a narrative, and create a narrative epic.
Competencies
Art of the Argument
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the art of the argument by explaining argumentative elements, creating an argumentative essay, and describing satire.
Epic Literature
Students will demonstrate an understanding of epic literature by describing literary archetypes, explaining universal themes, and analyzing adaptations of dramatic literature.
Epic Narratives
Students will demonstrate an understanding of epic narratives by explaining the history of words, summarizing elements of a narrative, and creating a narrative epic.
Literary Essentials
Students will demonstrate an understanding of literary essentials by explaining elements in fiction, creating a synopsis of a literary text, and describing sentence variety.
Writing Styles
Students will demonstrate an understanding of writing styles by describing text structures, explaining rhetorical appeals, and summarizing the development of opposing arguments.
Writing with Research
Students will demonstrate an understanding of writing with research by explaining the synthesis of information, creating an expository essay, and creating an expository presentation.
