Schedule
Week One: Jan 18 & Jan 20
Monday |
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No Classes: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday |
Wednesday | Topic: Introductions & Class Overview |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Readings | Katz, I.R., Haras, C., & Blaszczynski, C (2010). Does Business Writing Require Information Literacy? (pp.135-49). |
Week Two: Jan 25 & Jan 27
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Deliverables | Blog Post: Professional Bio: submit the post URL to Canvas by 11:59, EST |
Readings | Caradonna, J. (2014). Introduction. Sustainability: a history (pp. 1-20). |
Wednesday | Topic: Sustainability & Risk Communication |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | What is Sustainability? What is Risk Communication? Where do the discourses overlap? Do Grabill & Simmons have suggestions for how to communicate sustainability more effectively? |
Week Three: Feb 1 & Feb 3
Wednesday | Topic: Green IT & Big Data |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | According to the authors we read this week, do e-based tools enable the sort of participatory communication that Grabill & Simmons outline, why or why not? |
Week Four: Feb 8 & Feb 10
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Deliverables | Blog Post: Annotated Bibliography: submit the post URL to Canvas by 11:59 |
Readings | Nixon, R. (2011). Scenes from the seabed. (pp. 264-280).
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Wednesday | Topic: Environmental Justice & Renewable Energy |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | What is slow violence? Why/how are the effects of anthropocentric climate change unequally distributed? How can we redress (uneven) effects? What are the advantages to renewable energy? What are some drawbacks? How do we redress the drawbacks? |
Week Five: Feb 15 & 17
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Deliverables | Blog Post: Essay Draft: submit the post URL to assigned Canvas Group by 11:59 |
Readings | Read and Respond to the two paper drafts uploaded to your Canvas group folder by your group members |
Wednesday | Topic: Audience & Process |
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Sessions | NO REMOTE CLASS SESSION |
Workshop | What are most effective techniques for peer review and incorporating feedback during revision? |
Week Six: Feb 22 & Feb 24
Wednesday | Topic: Audience & Process |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | What features are key to a proposal? Who’s your audience & how does your audience determine choices you make in the proposal? |
Week Seven: March 1 & March 3
Wednesday | Topic: Project Description & Guide to Academic Sources |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | How to access and integrate academic source material? How to compost a Gantt chart? Project Descriptions Parts I & II. |
Week Eight: March 8 & March 10
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Deliverables | Proposal Draft Peer Response
Group: Attach a draft of your Group proposal (as a .docx or .pdf file) to the Canvas Discussions Reply window (just one file draft per group) by Wednesday, March 10 at noon. Individual: Each student needs to respond to one draft posted by another other group in their section by Friday, March 12 at 11:59 using the Canvas Discussions Reply function |
Wednesday | Topic: Peer Review |
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Sessions | No Class Sessions–meet with your peer response group |
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Week Nine: March 15 & March 17
Wednesday | Topic:Design Ethics |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | Is accessible design, good design? Official story & the other gesture? How can we anticipate and redress potential ethical failings in visual rhetoric? |
Week Ten: March 22 & March 24
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Resources | WordPress How-To (TBA), Omeka How-To (TBA), Weebly How-To (TBA) |
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Break from Instruction Day | |
Week Eleven: March 29 & March 31
Wednesday | Topic:Podcast Analysis & Production |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | What are your favorite podcasts? What genres do podcasts fall out into? What are key formal elements? What do audiences need to hear & understand your podcast? |
Week Twelve: April 5 & April 7
Wednesday | Topic:Infographic Basics |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | How/why are the samples successful (or not)? What design elements can you adopt from the models? What can graphics (2D visual design) do that written and oral rhetoric cannot? |
Week Thirteen: April 12 & April 14
Wednesday | Topic:Feature Story Elements |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | In Class Discussion Questions: What rhetorical gestures are key to the Feature Story? How do your writing choices depend on your audience? What does a Feature Story do that other genres cannot? How do the Features fit into your larger project? |
Week Fourteen: April 19 & April 21
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Deliverables | Progress Report 2, upload a .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EDT |
Reading | Sun, h. & Getto, G. (2017). Localizing user experience. (pp. 89-94)
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Wednesday | Topic:UX & Participatory E-Tools |
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Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Questions | How can you localize user experience? How do participatory tools engage users? |
Week 15: April 26
Monday | Topic:UX Reports |
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Deliverables | Website Due, upload the URL to Canvas by 11:59, EDT |
Sessions | LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45 LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45 |
Week 16: April 30
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Deliverable | UX Report Due, upload the .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EDT |