Writing in/with New Media
This advanced writing course will consider how communication is mediated and remediated in the digital age, and draw connections between historical moments of print culture with that of contemporary technological advancement. Writing will engage emerging digital genres (websites, blogs, memes), digital storytelling, multimodal composition, and social media.
Prerequisite: UCWR 110 or equivalent, grade of C- or higher.
Outcomes: Learn terms/theories/concepts of new media historically and in the present; identify interactions between new media, writing, and other disciplines; effectively move a piece of writing from concept to revision.
This advanced writing course will consider how communication is mediated and remediated in the digital age, and draw connections between historical moments of print culture with that of contemporary technological advancement. Writing will engage emerging digital genres (websites, blogs, memes), digital storytelling, multimodal composition, and social media.
Prerequisite: UCWR 110 or equivalent, grade of C- or higher.
Outcomes: Learn terms/theories/concepts of new media historically and in the present; identify interactions between new media, writing, and other disciplines; effectively move a piece of writing from concept to revision.
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110, C- or higher
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110, C- or higher
This is a writing intensive class. A grade of C- or better in UCWR 110 is required to enroll.
The focus of this course is writing in and with ¿New Media.¿ We will practice writing in and across modalities and technologies that are both ¿old¿ and ¿new,¿ familiar and unfamiliar. We will consider how communication is mediated and remediated in the digital age, and we will draw connections between historical moments of print culture with that of contemporary technological advancement. Some topics we will explore include the history of writing and writing technologies, digital genres (websites, podcasts,), digital storytelling, multimodal discourse, and visual analysis and rhetoric.
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