LANG 2067
Digital Communication: Expressing Your Perspective in Digital Spaces
Course Description
LANG2067 prepares students to produce impactful digital content—such as podcasts, vlogs, and portfolios—for a connected world. Through integrating digital content creation, critical analysis, and communication skills, students develop strong audience awareness, story-telling and multimodal communication skills while crafting compelling digital identities and artefacts.
Highlights
- leveraging experiential learning, student teams engage in pitching, promoting, and creating a digital show – either vlog or podcast
- working collaboratively through ideation, storyboarding, production, and editing
Assessments
- Assessment 1: A production pitch of the vlog/podcast project
- Assessment 2: A promotional reel to engage an audience and following
- Assessment 3: Final vlog/podcast project
- Assessment 4: Learning portfolio reflecting on learning over the course of the semester
Target Students
- Ideal for creative, collaborative, and reflective students who want to critically explore digital media and enhance their digital communication.
- This course would also appeal to students who want to showcase their work to broader audiences.
- Prerequisite(s): 1403, 1406, 1407, 1408, or 1409
Learning Experience
Student testimonials
- "the course included a variety of assignments/projects that helped us build on our different skills such as speaking, filming, script writing, etc."
- "I think the overall structure of the course is good, and we can also learned the use of evidence in creating content to a specific audience."