Minor in Digital Writing, Literature, and Design
The new minor in Digital Writing, Literature, and Design—prounouced "D World" for short—will replace the Information Design minor in Fall 2017. Current students in the Information Design minor can choose whether to follow the old or new requirements.
Description
The Digital Writing, Literature and Design minor offers students contemporary, online skills in writing, design, and visual analysis, combined with an informed understanding of the cultural, historical and critical significance of digital texts such as video games, podcasts, web sites, and social media.
This synthesis of the humanities with information technologies helps prepare students for a wide variety of professional pursuits in the networked, creative economy, as well as graduate study in the Digital Humanities and New Media Studies.
Courses
Below is a comparison of the required courses for the Digital Writing, Literature, and Design Miinor and the Information Design Minor that it replaces.
Digital Writing, Literature & Design MinorBeginning Fall 2017 Required Core Courses (13 Credits) WRIT 1506 - Literacy, Technology and Society [Liberal Education Category 7, Humanities] (3 credits) WRIT 4250 - New Media Writing (3 credits) WRIT 4230 - Web Design and Digital Culture (3 credits) or WRIT 4260 – Visual Rhetoric and Culture (3 credits) ENGL 5270 - Digital Literature, Video Games, and Online Culture (4 credits) Electives (6-8 Credits) |
Information Design MiinorNo longer available to new students after Spring 2017 Required Core Courses (15-16 Credits) WRIT 1506 - Literacy, Technology and Society [Liberal Education Category 7, Humanities] (3 credits) WRIT 4250 - New Media Writing (3 credits) WRIT 4230 - Web Design and Digital Culture (3 credits) WRIT 4260 – Visual Rhetoric and Culture (3 credits) PHIL 3242 Values and Technology, or CS 3111 Computer Ehtics (3 or 4 credits) Electiives (3 Credits) |
