WRTG 354W - Critical Digital Literacies [GEWI]

How has “technology” always shaped literacy practices, and how does technology continue to shape new and evolving literacy practices? In this course, students study 1) a selective history of the materiality of literacy practices 2) the ways in which genres are implicated and shaped by digital technologies 3) the implications of multimodality in the composing process

Projects include writing projects that explore past literacy practices; literacy narratives; genre analyses of digital texts; creating multimodal projects that include text, video, images, and audio; and introductions to writing and publishing with other digital tools. Relevant theory includes rhetoric (particularly, concerns about technology, the visual and aural), genre studies, multimodality.

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

Prerequisite(s) WRTG 121
Class-Level Restriction Sophomore standing

Notes -
Equivalent Courses WRTG 354, ENGL 354
Previously listed as WRTG 354 - Critical Digital Literacies, ENGL 354
Updates Change to description 10/2017, effective Winter 2018; Change to number and approved for GEWI 5/2017, effective Fall 2017; Change to prefix 10/2013, effective Summer 2014

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