🌐 Information Literacy & Digital Composing

Upper-level undergraduate course

This course introduces students to key issues and conversations that impact our information- and platform-driven world. Over the course of the semester, students unpack what a platform is, how tech companies occlude or hide their intentions amid user policies and hidden agendas, how mis/disinformation circulate online via everyday people and bad actors, and how we can better facilitate informed decisions among internet users. By looking at how the very real issues of the world circulate as information online, students learn how to better attune themselves to helping combat these issues and resolve them using their own compositional skills.