WRIT 8550 is also offered in Spring 2025
WRIT 8550 is also offered in Spring 2023
Fall 2020 | WRIT 8550 Section 001: Seminar in Technology, Culture, and Communication -- Writing Futures: Collaborative, Analytic, Robotic (33618)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics may include computer-mediated communication, democracy/technology, controversies over digital communication, privacy/ethical issues, feminist theory and interactions of gender with science and technology, communication in legal or medical settings. Topics vary. See the Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- Designed for future scholar-professors, this seminar provides a framework to prepare for the social, literacy, and civic implications of collaborative, analytic, and robotic writing futures. Themes include the socio-technical construction of knowledge through human-human and human-device collaboration; analytics, including exploration of learning management systems and artificial intelligence; and robotics, including understanding and deployment of pedagogical assistants. COVID-19 will also be discussed regarding technological deployments that have been discussed as solutions; students will review a COVID-19 collection in the Fabric of Digital Life that was created to document technologies related to the COVID crisis. Resources for the seminar will include selected readings from the Technical Communication and Culture and Writing Studies and Pedagogy RSTC PhD exam reading lists. National and international experts will join us to provide guidance on building and applying critical and ethical expertise when designing and encountering future writing landscapes. Students will be invited to join in collaborative study and critique of technological emergence. Synchronous meetings are planned for five Tuesdays via Zoom on Sept. 15, 29, Oct. 20, Nov. 10, Dec. 1, 2020 between 2:30-5:00 p.m. CST. The remainder of the instruction will be asynchronous via Canvas.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33618/1209
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Writing Studies Classes