Syllabus (Fall 2014)

ProfessorDr. Leeann Hunter
leeann.hunter@wsu.edu
Avery 202B
(509) 335-2627
Office HoursW 11:10-1:00, Avery 202B
http://hunter.youcanbook.me
Class MeetingsMWF 2:10-3:00, Avery 12
Course Websitewww.leeannhunter.com/digital

Catalog Description

101 [ARTS] Introduction to Digital Technology & Culture 3 Inquiry into digital media, including origins, theories, forms, applications, and impact with a focus on authoring and critiquing multimodal texts.

Course Description

This course is an introduction to digital technology and culture that integrates interdisciplinary knowledge from literary studies, rhetoric and composition, art and design, business, and sociology to prepare students for the technical and cultural challenges of the 21st century. While this class is committed to introducing students to the history and culture of digital technology, it will also provide students with hands-on experiences with digital tools and delve into questions about what makes something digital and how we conceptualize our lives beyond the digital.

Outcomes and Objectives

This course is categorized under [ARTS] Inquiry in Creative and Professional Arts, and therefore counts toward UCORE requirements for a degree at WSU. As a UCORE course, it engages students in meeting the Seven Learning Goals and Outcomes in WSU’s undergraduate curriculum. Below are the specific learning goals that will be emphasized.

Critical and Creative Thinking

    • Understand how one thinks, reasons, and makes value judgments, including ethical and aesthetical judgments.
    • Think, react, and work in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

Information Literacy

    • Access information effectively and efficiently from multiple sources. 
    • Access and use information ethically and legally.

Communication

    • Recognize how circumstances, background, values, interests and needs shape communication sent and received.
    • Choose appropriate communication medium and technology.

Diversity

    • Critically assess their own core values, cultural assumptions and biases in relation to those held by other individuals, cultures, and societies.
    • Recognize how events and patterns in the present and past structure and affect human societies and world ecologies.

Required Materials