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Fall 2023  |  WRIT 3577W Section 001: Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet (19333)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Enrollment Requirements:
soph or jr or sr
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Enrollment Status:
Closed (23 of 23 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course examines the rich and complex ways people are seeking to inform and persuade others via the internet. Western rhetorical theories have adapted to address spoken, written, visual, and digital communication. The internet incorporates aspects of all of these modes of communication, but it also requires us to revisit how we have understood them. Students in Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet will reinforce their understandings of rhetorical theories and the internet as a technology. The class will also ask students to read current scholarly work about the internet, and develop the critical tools needed to complement, extend, or challenge that work.
Class Description:
This course examines the rich and complex ways people are seeking to inform and persuade others via the internet. Western rhetorical theories have adapted to address spoken, written, visual, and digital communication. The internet incorporates aspects of all of these modes of communication, but it also requires us to revisit how we have understood them. Students in Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet will reinforce their understandings of rhetorical theories and the internet as a technology. The class will also ask students to read current scholarly work about the internet, and develop the critical tools needed to complement, extend, or challenge that work.
Class Format:
20% Lecture
60% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19333/1239
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 April 2020

Fall 2023  |  WRIT 3577W Section 002: Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet (21591)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Enrollment Requirements:
soph or jr or sr
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Enrollment Status:
Closed (24 of 24 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course examines the rich and complex ways people are seeking to inform and persuade others via the internet. Western rhetorical theories have adapted to address spoken, written, visual, and digital communication. The internet incorporates aspects of all of these modes of communication, but it also requires us to revisit how we have understood them. Students in Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet will reinforce their understandings of rhetorical theories and the internet as a technology. The class will also ask students to read current scholarly work about the internet, and develop the critical tools needed to complement, extend, or challenge that work.
Class Notes:
Digital technologies are woven so tightly into our personal and professional activities that we might not always be aware of their far-reaching influence. The interfaces we use daily exist within social, political, economic, and cultural systems. This means that we need to think critically about how these technologies are woven into our lives. The goal of this course is to provide you with tools to do so. We'll use rhetoric as a framework for interrogating how people communicate with and about digital, internet technologies. Rhetoric is useful because it calls our attention to the contexts surrounding communication. It positions us to ask questions about how communication is constructed and enacted across our digital lives. Currently, artificial Intelligence (AI) presents global and local implications that have never been faced. When communication is no longer designed, authored, delivered or even edited by humans, where does that leave us? What do these changes mean for communication now and in the future? Students in this online section of WRIT 3577 will examine and/or experience writing/working with autonomous AI agents such as digital assistants, social robots, or virtual humans. We will draw on rhetorical theory and an international set of AI ethical principles to guide discussion toward achieving ethical communication practices. Specifically, in this section of the course you will: Increase understanding of how AI technologies impact learning as well as professions that involve design, writing, communication, and knowledge and culture industries; Understand how digital and AI literacy becomes a means to avoid reckless or unintended outcomes, algorithmic bias, racial discrimination, digital divides, unethical AI practices, misinformation, and other socio-ethical harms to humans; Employ a rhetorical vocabulary and methodologies needed for the interpretation of communication futures in light of a changing technology landscape; and Examine, use and analyze
Class Description:
This course examines the rich and complex ways people are seeking to inform and persuade others via the internet. Western rhetorical theories have adapted to address spoken, written, visual, and digital communication. The internet incorporates aspects of all of these modes of communication, but it also requires us to revisit how we have understood them. Students in Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet will reinforce their understandings of rhetorical theories and the internet as a technology. The class will also ask students to read current scholarly work about the internet, and develop the critical tools needed to complement, extend, or challenge that work.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21591/1239
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 April 2020

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