ENGL 404 - Error 404: Rhetorics of Social Media Writing

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
This course focuses on the complexities of social media writing, exploring diverse voices and identities in digital spaces. Students critically explore intersectional identities, AI, and digital advocacy in social media, and engage in hands-on multimodal writing projects.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Junior Standing. Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Analyze and understand social media platforms to understand their role in shaping public discourse, identity expression, and advocacy.
Investigate intersectional identities in digital spaces, such as race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, and more, and ways they intersect and influence the lived experiences of individuals and cultural groups in online environments.
Evaluate social media campaigns, examining their effectiveness, ethical considerations, and the strategies used to engage diverse audiences.
Develop digital literacy and content creation skills by creating various forms of accessible social media content, such as videos, graphics, and written posts.
Reflect on Personal Digital Engagement and Identity and online identities, considering how engagement with digital platforms is shaped by intersecting social identities and how it can contribute to broader social justice efforts.

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.