Designing Networked Communications

Catalog description

A course in the layout, design, and composition of digitally-networked communication. Students will learn to analyze audiences and themselves for their uses of information in order to plan, compose, and critically evaluate digitally networked ecologies including web pages, mobile applications, and social media platforms. Students will acquire theories and skills with HTML/CSS coding, rhetorically-centered design, accessibility, and user experience and will apply those skills to the composition of a variety of digital texts. Course work will require students to become proficient with commercially-available and open source content platforms.