Course Objectives
1. To develop rhetorical skills as responsive and resourceful designers of meaning in web environments.
- demonstrates awareness of the interests of multiple audiences
- demonstrates facility with dynamic, sometimes unexpected events and circumstances
- draws resourcefully on a designer's full meaning-making repertoire
- makes effective (not gratuitous) use of the unique opportunities of writing in web environments
- demonstrates awareness of web genres and design conventions—how they can be useful and how they can be usefully subverted
2. To develop critical awareness of issues of human-computer-human interactions.
- demonstrates awareness of what design choices enable and constrain in a reader's experience of the text
- demonstrates awareness of issues of power relations and accessibility
3. To critique and revise web texts (including those you have composed).
- displays ability to assess and articulate purposes of texts
- shows thoughtful attention to usability
- shows ability to reassess design choices and revise as necessary
4. To develop skills in working collaboratively.
- shows responsible attitude toward class through active engagement and sharing of expertise
- handles service learning responsibilities in a professional manner
- demonstrates ability to present assessments and critiques in a helpful manner
- responds professionally to critique and advice from classmates, community partners, and the instructor
- draws on existing web pages and sites for ideas
5. To gain basic technical skills needed to author web pages and sites.
- displays familiarity with (X)HTML and CSS as necessary to realize design ideas