A class in Multimedia Writing, offered by CLC Director Sandy Baldwin

The class blog and syllabus are here: http://engl303f09.blogspot.com/

Course Description: Study of communication and design issues in multimedia composition. Focuses on communication, creative expression, persuasion, interactivity, and rhetorical principles. Practice in composing multimedia documents such as online publications, interactive literary works and tutorials. ENGL 303 is part of the English Department’s Technical Writing and Editing sequence. Multimedia is broadly defined, including but not limited to text, image, audio, and animation. The course will focus on web-based multimedia.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: author and design web sites; write for the web with awareness of genres and audiences;
understand the complexity of representation and expression using multimedia; analyze the social and material transformation of writing in multimedia environments.