Digital Media Futures. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 with a grade of C or higher and one History and Humanities GER 200 level course with a grade of C or higher. This course provides students with opportunities to explore past, current, and possible future directions pertaining to information theories and practices as they continue to advance in both print and digital media formats. Beginning with early approaches in this area like cybernetics, the course then focuses on how digital technology is continuing to transform the fields of communication and media, especially in terms of user interactivity, game design, storytelling, web-application development, marketing, and many social and cultural political movements. Course assignments cover a wide array of formats and skills, ranging from research papers to digital narrative production as well as new and creative approaches to video and audio production. This course satisfies the three credit 300 GER in History and Humanities.