Brandee Easter | Digital rhetoric

3.0 credits, Fall 2023
Prereqs: None

Featured Image: from Lynda Barry, Making Comics

This course develops students’ critical writing, analysis, design, and implementation abilities in the digital world. Students will analyze the impact of digital products through current theory and global issues, then design, write, and implement their own digital product. Areas of study include questions such as power, gender, audience, identity, language, accessibility, and knowledge construction. 

This course is formatted as a studio course, not a lecture course. This means that we will be spending significant amounts of our time not only in discussions, but also in active reading, writing, and making together.

Required Texts

• Abstract: The Art of Design, available through Netflix and YouTube
• Barry, Lynda. Making Comics. Drawn & Quarterly, 2019.
• Shipka, Jody. Toward a Composition Made Whole. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. 
• Vaughan, Brian K., Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente. The Private Eye. Panel Syndicate, 2015.