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Digital Project 3: Collaborative Counter-mapping
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Overview Throughout their CODES classes, students employ place-based research methods to interrogate the communities in which they live and work. In this collaborative assignment, they put those methods to work through a storymap that critically engages with some aspect of the St. Louis region. This is explicitly a counter-map, which challenges dominant narratives by…
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Digital Project 2: Video Analysis of Multimedia Journalism
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Overview This three-part assignment asks students to consider how content, style, and audience shape multimedia journalism. Their first task is to analyze a piece of multimedia journalism, evaluating who it’s trying to reach and how. They then produce their own video analysis, targeting a specific audience and making rhetorical and stylistic choices in their…
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Digital Project 1: Personal Multimedia Essay
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Overview In this assignments, students practice the skill of multimedia writing, focusing on how different kinds of text and media speak to one another. This is also an opportunity for students to find their voice as writers, exploring who they are and how their experiences shape their points of view. Assignment Sheet
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CODE121: Transdisciplinary Communication
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Instructional Context CODE121: Transdisciplinary Communication is a skills course that students take in their first semester, alongside their first Research Teams course. Students learn about transdisciplinary approaches and systems thinking as they present their work publicly and write in a variety of genres for multiple formats. The course has a strong emphasis on digital…
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Analyses
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Assignment by Jessica DeSpain, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Overview This foundational assignment teaches active and critical reading and helps students hone their writing. Assignment Sheet