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Course description
Introduction to Digital Literacies teaches students ways of reading, analyzing, researching, and composing in emerging media.


 * ENG 213 . . . asks students to begin with their experiences with digital texts, to learn theories of reading and analyzing digital texts, and to then demonstrate their knowledge of digital texts and genres by composing their own creative and rhetorically effective texts for specific contexts and purposes. Students will thus enact the cognitive transformations always present in liberal studies, yet actualized today in the context of digital communications.  (from the Core Curriculum Master Syllabus)

This course presents a rhetorical approach to digital literacies. It aims to help students identify and practice the roles of user, critic, and designer in the emerging world of digital communications. The course will also study larger issues of cultural change that affect how and why we communicate.

As an Introduction, the course will highlight important parts of the total subject but not deal comprehensively with it (the subject is too large and diverse). With varied subject matter and sources (from different historical periods and genres), there may be less of a clear progression of themes than might be expected in some courses. Part of the student's task is to pull threads together and make meaning for her or his own learning.

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