Syllabus - Course Description, Goal and Outcomes

This course is designed for majors in the New Media track to develop essential social media production skills. Curriculum focuses on practicum in acquiring, digitizing, editing and distributing digital information, and theory relevant to structuring content for converged access.

The goal of this course competency in fundamental digital media production in graduates preparing to be content specialists producing and distributing content via social media.

To this end, if you show up regularly, listen and contribute to discussion, and do the activities involved in this course’s curriculum, you will be able to:

1.  Create and maintain a blog,

2.  Produce digital audio content for a pod cast posted to your blog,

3.  Shoot and enhance photos and upload them to your blog,

4.  Tell a good story with images and sound,

5.  Produce and publish your video to your blog,

6.  Evaluate the efficacy of your blog.