ENG 454 - Digital Age Writing, Reading and Living

A brief introduction to “Digital Humanities” that familiarizes students with the tools, concepts, and debates concerning arts and letters in an increasingly networked age. Part literary studies, part cultural studies, and part composition studies, this triangulated exploration probes how the “digital turn” has impacted the way we think, read, and write. Students will engage network fiction, acquire digital writing skills, and theorize about how to create value and meaning in a critical internet culture. Finally, students will explore what digital approaches have in common with older forms of rhetoric and aged technologies and will discover how digital practices have ushered in new forms and motivated new aesthetics.
Lecture
Credits: 3
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204, ENG 212, ENG 213 or ENG 214
ICT Core Theme Centerpiece: Revolutions
Offered in Fall & Spring