ENC 5421 Fall 2021 Neal
This course will explore digital technologies in relationship to composing processes, practices, texts, and interactions. We will also consider pedagogical, research, and scholarship implications of digital composition. The course will be divided into three units: 1) Media Theories (e.g., new media, multimedia, multimodality, hypermedia, remediation, networks, circulation), 2) Interactive Communities (e.g., fan, activist, gaming, social media, blogs), and 3) Digital Composition (e.g., hypertext, curation, assemblages, remix, wikis, podcasts, digital video). Students will produce a number of small digital compositions throughout the semester that they will curate and assemble into a final portfolio. Weekly reflections will include applications to pedagogy, research, and publishing practices.
Requirements: This course satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Area of Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition. This course fulfills 3 credit hours of the academic requirement for the Certificate in Editing and Publishing. If a student has already met the academic requirement, the course can count for additional credits toward the 12-hour Certificate.