Modern Literacy courses are
designed to introduce students from all disciplines to forms of analysis and
moder of thinking that represent, process, and convey information. These
aproaches to information inreasingly mediate our experience of the world, and
might include coding, statistical analysis, visual data analysis, and the
analysis of geographic or spatial information.
91715 |
BLC 220
Digital
Literacies/Scholarship |
Jeremiah Hall
|
F 10:10 am-11:30 am |
RKC
200 |
(2 credits) This
inquiry-based course asks questions about how knowledge is formed and transmitted
in the 21st century and how we act upon information by developing literacies.
It will examine the skills necessary to produce scholarship and engage the
public sphere by focusing on students’ proficiencies in conducting and
presenting research using digital sources. Literacies under consideration range
from databases and metadata to infometrics and social
media; from coding languages to digital images and sound with an emphasis on
how these relate to the process of research and writing. Through participation
in collaborative workshops, students will gain experience with digital tools to
analyze and interpret information sources as well as the ethical issues
fundamental to information use and access. The goal is to encourage students to
investigate digital literacies to create new voices for participating in the
digital world. Class size: 12
92245 |
ML
104 SCIENCE
LITERACY FOR ACTIVISTS |
Felicia Keesing |
T 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (first 6 weeks of semester) |
RKC
115 |
1 credit Students
in this course, which meets weekly for the first six weeks of the semester,
will learn tools and concepts that empower them to find, interpret, challenge,
and defend scientific information. We will take a hands-on approach to
understanding how science is funded, why studies can report results that are
wrong, how politicians can question whether human activities are causing global
climate change, and how data can be faked. Most
importantly, we will explore why all of this matters to all of us, and what
roles we can play in science whether we are scientists or not. The course
focuses on the conduct of science rather than its content and is appropriate
for all students. This course meets no distribution requirements. Class size: 20