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.

Objectives

• Perform humanistic inquiry with computational methods.
• Assess information and cite resources.
• Engage in collaborative and project-based learning.
• Practice creative design and analysis of digital media.

This course serves as a foundation course in the DTC major. As such, it introduces students to developing competencies in the following areas.

• Demonstrate and articulate an understanding of the way digital media and information function and circulate in multiple cultural contexts. (DTC 3)
• Demonstrate an understanding of the history of technological development, from local to global perspectives, and its implications for a variety of mediums. (DTC 4)
• Effectively communicate through writing and speech why and how digital media texts make meaning. (DTC 6)
• Demonstrate competency with technology for designing and distributing digital works in various mediums. (DTC 1)