Overview
Description
This course teaches web design and Drupal, as well as best practices in the digital humanities and journalism, in order to relate historical content to current events and engage a wide audience.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Related Courses
Cross Listed With JOUR 308
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- create collaboratively an interactive, multimedia-rich, responsive web project that combine journalistic reporting on a present day issue with historical investigation of that issue.
- explain the basic infrastructure that runs the web, namely the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), as well as key design principles and technologies (HTML, CSS, Image manipulation, etc.).
- prepare a plan that describes how the course’s web project can reach audiences through social engagement, public engagement, and pedagogy.