1. Produce web pages and other digital interfaces and/or environments for effective and functional human-computer interactions
2. Apply Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to hand-code web pages

3. Employ web and other digital interfaces and/or environments that respond to specific audience needs, as well as usability and accessibility issues
4. Learn various methods of researching for online information, such as databases, wikis, and websites, and of evaluating its credibility

1. Organize multimedia for web pages and other digital interfaces and/or environments using various graphics, sound, and video authoring tools
2. Develop a multimedia project that incorporates various media objects, such as video, animation, sound, and still images.

FA 435

JOUR 305, BDCST 466

1. A.    Practice visual fundamentals such as composition, figure/ground relationships, rhythm, contrast, and color.
2. B.    Create and compare print and screen based media, understanding the affordances and constraints of each in the production of visual, sonic, haptic, kinetic, and kinesthetic elements
3. C.    Create and arrange images and other content in sequence and in non-linear form, demonstrating the conceptual underpinnings of the digital image and its application to time-based media
4. Utilize textual content as visual rhetoric in the process of designing interactive media interfaces that are both functional and usable.

FA 363,

FA 433

JOUR 305, BDCST 466

1. Understand basics of front end design as well as composition strategies for digital texts and environments
2. Demonstrate an overall understanding and utilization of appropriate textual content for various forms of interactive media
3. C.     Produce and evaluate effective textual content that promotes interaction, functionality, and usability by different readers and needs.

1. Examine the structure and culture of the disciplines, publishing cycles, and information flows control access to information.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how storage and retrieval systems control what information can be found.
3. Use a variety of advanced techniques, such as Boolean searching, subject/descriptor searching, truncation, and proximity, to retrieve information effectively from a variety of electronic information retrieval systems, like subscription databases and the Web.
4. Understand the use of language and vocabulary in information retrieval by exploring thesauri, indexes, concordances, and keyword-matching, as well as demonstrate comprehension of the differences, uses, and strengths of these various ways of using language to retrieve electronic information.

1. Examine the presentation of race, class, gender, and disabilities in digital media
2. Interpret images found on the web from a cultural context different from your own

1. Use digital media terminology and concepts, such as medium, media, multimedia, mass media, remediation, repurposing, translation, text, textuality, language, and code, appropriately in presentations and projects
2. Employ various types of texts, such as visual, auditory, kinetic, and kinesthetic texts, for appropriate mediums
3. Illustrate the way artificial systems acquire language
4. Demonstrate knowledge about the process by which is language is made via computers
5. Study, create, and critique digital text and its central role in human-computer interactions
6. Employ textual content in web pages and other digital interfaces or environments that respond to specific audience needs

1. Demonstrate understanding between digital and analog technologies
2. Compare and contrast technological development from a historical perspective
3. Explain contributions of pioneers working in the US and beyond in the area of digital technology
4. Discuss technologies of oral and written discourse, such as the importance of memory, the development of alphabets, invention of writing tools, and innovations for electronic devices

5. Examine the way in which metaphors from print culture influence electronic information retrieval systems.

1. Demonstrate knowledge of “digital divide” by explaining the various factors leading to it in the US and beyond
2. Sketch an activity, program, or event that aims to assist marginalized populations with gaining access and understanding of digital media
3. Write a cultural critique of media objects that looks at political economy, content, and audience reception of media objects

4. Discuss “authority,” and the way information is and has been validated;  interrogate the role of culture and technology in determining the validity and authority of information.
5. Note the way in which public policies impact access to information.
6. Create, and use information ethically.

1.  Create a digital text in a variety of mediums
2.  Construct and deliver an argument focusing on the way the medium affects the message, audience, and other rhetorical components
3. Evaluate the effective use of language in a digital text.