COMM 196 - Digital Life & Online Skills

4 credits
Introduces a wide variety of fundamental skills in digital and social media. Although most students in higher education use digital technologies such as smartphones and social media platforms every day, an emerging body of scholarly research has demonstrated the need for instruction in competencies such as online privacy, personal reputation management, critical information gathering, online collaboration and appropriate sourcing of intellectual property for personal and professional use. This course provides that learning in a fast-paced, interactive format in which students use online technologies to critically explore the impacts of rapidly evolving technology on Digital Life.
Graded (A-F) only.