What is digital literacy? What does it look like? In Introduction to Digital Literacies, students will interrogate the "lived" technologies used in daily life and build upon them to become cognizant and competent in "learned" technologies. Students will analyze and produce multimodal texts to develop a deliberateness in composing digital texts for specific audiences, contexts, and purposes. Our exploration of digital literacy will be grounded in theories of rhetoric, writing, and technical and professional communication.
This course will introduce students to four crucial digital literacies: reading, analysis, and composition of digital texts, and research in digital environments.
By the end of this course, students will be able to
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