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Internet, Science and Society Minor

Writing Studies

College of Liberal Arts

Students will no longer be accepted into this program after Fall 2007. Program requirements below are for current students only.

Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2013
Required credits in this minor: 18

This minor introduces students to the field of Internet studies and allows them to select from elective courses that focus on an area of interest. Areas of study might include legal or social issues, such as intellectual property on the Internet or ways in which gender stereotypes are both reinforced and modified online; how scientific and technical information is conveyed on the Internet and how the Internet is playing an important role in our ability to share cutting-edge information; or how controversies, such as current debates over genetically modified foods, are played out in cyberspace. Students should work with the adviser in the Department of Writing Studies. Students must complete at least 18 credits for the minor.

Program Delivery

This program is available:

via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)

Minor Requirements

Minor Courses

WRIT 3401 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

WRIT 3577W - Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet [TS, WI] (3.0 cr)

WRIT 3371W - Technology, Self, and Society [TS, WI] (3.0 cr)

Electives

Take 3 or more credit(s) from the following:

· WRIT 3108 {Inactive} [DSJ] (3.0 cr)

· WRIT 4662W - Writing With Digital Technologies [WI] (3.0 cr)

· WRIT 3896 - Internship in Technical Writing and Communication (3.0 cr)

Electives

Take 6 credits of approved coursework approved by the Department of Writing Studies.

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WRIT 3577W - Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet (TS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

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.

WRIT 4662W - Writing With Digital Technologies (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Writ 4662W/Writ 5662
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

WRIT 4662W is an advanced level Writing Studies course that explores various digital writing technologies and provides multiple opportunities to assess writing situations and make appropriate decisions about digital form and production. Students will learn the basic building blocks of writing in Internet environments (text, sound, images, video) as well as the vocabularies, functionalities, and organizing structures of Web 2.0 environments, how these impact understanding and use of information, and how to produce these environments (i.e., multimedia internet documents) for interactivity and use. This course includes design projects and practice with apps, markup language, content management systems, video, and social media. prereq: Jr or sr or instr consent

WRIT 3896 - Internship in Technical Writing and Communication

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This is an online course for students who are working in an approved internship in the field of technical communication. Students have the opportunity to apply the skills they have learned in the TWC major in a real-world situation. In the course, students are required to read materials, to submit bi-weekly progress reports on their position to an online forum, and respond to other students. Students are also asked to post examples of their projects and to rate their skills using the CLA Competencies and Rate Tool. The final project in the course is a 10-12 page final report that involves submitting a draft and meeting with the instructor. prereq: Writ 3562W and 24 credits completed in the Technical Writing & Communication major