Welcome to ENG 3080! As plans for the Spring semester develop, this page will expand to include information about each aspect of the course.
This class is designed to give you an opportunity to create online content beyond the usual confines of social media and profile-based pages. We’ll look to both theory and practice to enrich our understanding of—and appreciation for—web-based writing.
You’ll work on a semester-long website-creation project, creating a web presence of your own design. You will add your voice to the internet, learn technical skills along the way, and study how writing works when it’s designed for digital spaces.
Course Information
- ENG 3080*01
- Spring 2024 Meetings: Mon/Thu 2–3:15p in CAS 352
- Instructor Details:
- Chris Friend (he/him)
- CAS 325
- Office hours (appointments strongly recommended):
- Mondays & Thursdays 4–6p
- Tuesdays 11a-12:30p & 2:30–4p
Description
This course explores emerging theories and practices within the digital humanities and surveys the relationship between electronic writing products and their relationship with new media.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Characterize the material consequences for writing in digital versus material spaces
- Survey theories of digital technologies’ influence on writing
- Engage in rhetorical analysis of digital practices and products for writing in a range of digital environments
- Create original digital texts in a range of digital environments
- Develop critical practices for reading and writing multimodally
Details About the Course
Besides this site, the following resources will help you feel connected as you go about the semester: