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Writing with Digital and Social Media

Credits: 3 | May be elected 3 times for credit | May be elected more than once in the same term

In WRITING 200, students analyze and apply rhetorical principles in their writing with “new media.” As members of a media-saturated culture, we know that print text is only one form of writing, and sometimes it is not the most effective choice. Because all of us make sense of texts and issues in a variety of ways, these courses ask students to utilize multimodal (visual, aural, etc.) forms of communication and become more informed, critical consumers of new media writing themselves.

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Writing 200.001 - Activism, Organizing, and Community Building in Online Spaces

The revolution may not be televised, but it may end up on TikTok. This three credit hour class will introduce students to the tools of online advocacy and provide opportunities to experiment with designing their own advocacy campaigns through content creation in a highly production-oriented environment.

This class invites students of all experience levels with digital media and content creation to make and experiment alongside each other as we encounter how writing mediates capacities for change and connection online. Students in this class will explore online communities and their impacts, develop research skills to help generate knowledge about online advocacy and interpret analytics of impacts of advocacy-related content, and develop advocacy and community-building projects of their own throughout the semester.

Together, we will understand how platforms structure the kinds of engagement and content we can more readily produce, engage questions of online safety and surveillance, and explore tactics for adapting to ever-shifting social landscapes online with rhetorical awareness.

Writing 200.002 - Writing the Wild: A Workshop for Content Creators

Calling all hikers, paddlers, rock-climbers, and surfers—not to mention foragers, botanists, trail riders and anglers. Writing the Wild is a multi-modal creative composition course designed to help students interrogate their passion for the outdoors among like-minded peers. Over the course of the semester, students will hone their respective crafts of writing, photography, and podcasting by analyzing published work, conversing with preeminent members of the outdoor media, and workshopping their own evolving projects. The paths students follow in their individual endeavors will by the end of the semester converge to help unpack our big, collective driving question: “Why do wild experiences matter?” 

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