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ENGL 419: Multimedia Writing

Professional Writing majors may use ENGL 419 as a suitable course in the category that presently asks them to take ENGL 420 or ENGL 421. Students in other majors who presently take ENGL 420 or 421 may, with approval of their academic advisor or area, use this course to satisfy a similar requirement.

Catalog Description

Catalog: Multimedia writing for networked contexts. Emphasizes principles, and practices of multimedia design, implementation, and publishing. Typical genres include Web sites, interactive media, digital video, visual presentations, visual argument, and user documentation. Credits: 3.00

Official Course Description

This course helps students practice and understand the principles of multimedia design and implementation, with emphasis on writing in multimedia contexts. Students closely examine various multimedia products, doing oral and/or written analyses of a number of such pieces. Course readings focus on how different media communicate meaning, shape our reactions, and interact with one another. Students propose, plan, and develop a number of individual and/or group multimedia projects, including those for the Web, using a variety of technologies that support and enhance the presentation of content in multimedia forms.

Sample syllabus: ENGL 419, Fall 2023

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Use theories and approaches from digital writing, visual rhetoric, and multimedia writing to think critically, analyze, and solve problems individually and in teams
  • Communicate complex information effectively via a variety of digital and print media, genres, technologies, and presentations to a range of audiences and stakeholders
  • Innovate genre conventions and expectations across a variety of media to both expert and non-expert audiences with changing organizational and community needs
  • Apply primary and secondary research methods and strategies to produce multimedia documents and other digital artifacts
  • Design multimedia documents and digital artifacts that take into account both the informational and human needs of users, paying special attention to accessibility, cultural diversity, and global sensitivity
  • Interpret, contextualize, explain, and visualize data sets in specific rhetorical contexts or problems