Students will gain a fundamental understanding of how digital data is collected, analyzed, and visualized/represented on various platforms. They will learn to locate and assess sources of data, and effectively and ethically represent those data, using relevant communication tools. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Winter 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
Increasingly, literary production and consumption are occurring in digital spaces using digital tools. This course will foster students' abilities to critically interpret literary texts using digital tools. Students will study literary authorship, readership, and analysis from the inception of the printing press to the present. Part of the Information, Innovation, or Technology Issue. Course is cross-listed with ENG 314. Offered winter and spring/summer semesters. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Hybrid
Examination of digital communication and media in relation to crime and victimization as it intersects with the United States and international criminal justice systems. Investigation of the use of digital spaces and media in relation to cultures of privacy, fraud, trafficking, emancipation, terror, and perceptions of expanding and retracting democracy. Part of the Globalization Issue. Cross-listed with CJ 335. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
An examination of social media's role in shaping individuals and communities. Students evaluate how social media platforms express political, social, and cultural power. Students analyze how social media expands and limits conversations on issues concerning race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora. Part of the Information, Innovation, or Technology Issue. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Fall 2024 - Online
This course will investigate the ethical concepts emerging alongside digital innovation. Students will explore topics including social media, issues of privacy and security, cyber warfare, virtual representation, and Internet access, plagiarism, and sustainability. Part of the Information, Innovation, or Technology Issue. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Winter 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
A culminating course in which students demonstrate their conceptual understanding and creative abilities as they relate to digital studies (DS). Each student completes digital project(s) for peer critique. Students critically reflect on their trajectory through the DS curriculum and explain how it relates to their future goals. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisites: DS 201, DS 202, at least one course from the digital tools/production module, and one course from the digital culture module.
Winter 2025 - Hybrid
