COM 110 Modern Media and Communications

3 Credit(s) W-I

This course introduces students to a number of writing strategies through the examination of modern media. It also introduces techniques for responding effectively to the writing of others and ways to identify genres and rhetorical strategies appropriate to various audiences, platforms and expected outcomes. Students will produce a variety of texts that explore the role of media in shaping communal discourses and individual identity using self-reflections and critical examination of how they engage with modern media on a daily basis. Cannot be used to satisfy courses required in the Communications major and minor except university-wide W-I requirements. Three lecture hours per week.