Overview
Description
This course teaches how to use modern digital communication platforms and prepares students to meet the unique constraints of the digital world and take advantage of the opportunities it provides. Students will learn to carefully construct and deliver messages to tell stories, raise awareness, report on local issues, and actively engage their communities. Students will develop and adapt messages to the context formed by the technologies they use and the situations they address.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- research topics to obtain quality evidence to construct public messages.
- organize evidence and images to develop a narrative.
- focus the purpose of a presentation by articulating a thesis.
- craft an effective presentation that contains an introduction, body, and conclusion.
- deliver extemporaneously.
- use audience analysis to adapt a message.
- construct sound arguments through applying persuasion theory.
- demonstrate a favorable ethos when presenting in public.
- present messages across a variety of digital platforms.