ENGRC 3025 - Creating and Communicating Your Digital Professionalism

Fall, Spring. 1 credit. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: completed internship, professional experience, or significant undergraduate research; familiarity with HTML, CSS, and/or website development. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

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Senior-level course focused on creating and communicating an online professional identity. The key learning outcome is to enable students to develop digital professionalism, defined as a multimodal communicative competence honed through the practice of creating, critiquing, and reflecting upon digital artifacts they use to build and present their professional and public identities. The course will focus students’ attention on (i) Production: What are the implications of using a particular platform to create a professional self? (ii) Representation: What tools do they need to analyze their own multimodal presentation of their professional selves? (iii) Circulation: What are the effects of having online representations of themselves as professionals? and (iv) Audience: What are their expectations about who will be viewing/interpreting those professional selves and for what purpose?