WRTG 444 - Writing for the World Wide Web

What are the contemporary practices for creating content available on the web and mobile devices? This course teaches students 1) an introduction to HTML, CSS, and related coding/simple programming 2) the evolving role of social media and user-generated media 3) best practices for managing and publishing web-based content

Projects include exercises in HTML, CSS, and other coding/scripting tools for publishing content on the web and for mobile devices; an introduction to content management software (such as WordPress); research and ethnographic study of a variety of social media; an introduction to web-based usability testing; and authoring web-based content. Relevant theory includes a study of rhetoric (in terms of style, design, visual rhetoric, etc.), usability, social media, privacy/security, copyright.

Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation

Prerequisite(s) WRTG 121 and (WRTG 225 , ENGL 300W , or any 300-level “ENGL” course)
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing

Notes -
Equivalent Courses WRTG 544, ENGL 444
Previously listed as ENGL 444
Updates Change to description 10/2017, effective Winter 2018; Graduate Credit rescinded and equivalent course added 7/2014, effective Winter 2015; Change to prefix 10/2013, effective Summer 2014; Graduate Credit added 7/2011

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