ENG 302: Digital Culture

Goal: Students will analyze works of art, literature, film, video games, websites, and other modes of cultural production, in order to better understand their experience of the contemporary digital media landscape.
Content: Students will consider the significant social changes that have taken place since the rise of digital communications, including areas as diverse as copyright and ownership, artistic and literary production, privacy rights, corporate media control, fandom, and grassroots social movements. A history of writing technologies will help students to see the computer as one of many such historical shifts in human consciousness and social institutions.
Gen. Ed. Category: Diverse & Interdependent World (HUM)
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 and one Exploring general education course.
Credit: 3
Degree Level: Undergraduate