4. Course Objectives

1. Examine a wide range of genres, styles and cultural literatures.
2. Examine the traditional canon and innovative nontraditional writers and writing.
3. Demonstrate analytical skills of reading literature.
4. Demonstrate a high level of research and writing skills.
   
5. Write and speak in a wide range of formats appropriate to major emphasis... 
6. Speak and write about issues in the discipline and how they interact with the culture at large.
7. Articulate the ongoing relation between personal habits of reading and writing and the evolving study of English.
8. Produce a professional portfolio that demonstrates an awareness of and engagement with vital issues in an appropriate professional field relating to new media journalism.

At the end of this course, you should be able to

• recognize and intelligently discuss the historical origins of the internet and machine-assisted writing
  
• analyze trends in online culture as they relate to writing
  
• write professional, effective e-mails
  
• properly evaluate and contribute to collaborative e-texts such as Wikipedia
  
• recognize and apply the conventions of effective hypertext
  
• recognize and analyze the conventions of interactive electronic narrative
  
• create, develop, and revise an electronic work of interactive fiction
  
• use HTML and CSS to create, develop, revise and publish a series of increasingly elaborate and polished web sites
  
• exhibit communications skills and research methods consistent with the academic standards promoted by Seton Hill University