Week 1 — What Is a Digital Story?
January 13 & 15
What changes when stories move into digital space? Affordances of screens, interaction, networks, and computation.
Weekly Modules
Week 2 — Narrative Traditions I
January 20 & 22
Greek tragedy, Aristotle, structure, catharsis, plot, character.
Week 3 — Narrative Traditions II
January 27 & 29
Non-Western storytelling, anime, episodic and modular narrative forms.
Week 4 — Diagrammatic Storytelling
February 3 & 5
Expressing ideas through structure, layout, systems, and visual logic.
Week 5 — Visual Narrative I
February 10 & 12
Images, framing, sequencing, and visual storytelling fundamentals.
Week 6 — Visual Narrative II
February 17 & 19
Sequential storytelling, comics logic, cinematic thinking.
Week 7 — Cinema Language
February 24 & 26
Shot grammar, editing, continuity, montage.
Week 8 — Video Stories
March 3 & 5
Short-form video, narrative pacing, production workflows.
Week 9 — Audio Stories
March 10 & 12
Sound, voice, atmosphere, and narrative meaning.
Week 10 — Hypertext & Hypermedia
March 24 & 26
Links, nonlinear narrative, web-based storytelling.
Week 11 — Symbol, Index, Icon
March 31 & April 2
Semiotics, meaning, representation in digital media.
Week 12 — Playable Stories
April 7 & 9
Games, interaction, procedural narrative.
Week 13 — Network Stories
April 14 & 16
Distributed narratives, social media, networked culture.
Week 14 — Final Project Workshops
April 21 & 23
Drafting, feedback, and refinement.
Week 15 — Final Presentations
April 28 & 30
Screening, reflection, next steps.