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JOUR 308 - Web Design for Social Engagement: History and Contemporary Issues

(3 units)
This course teaches web design and Drupal, as well as best practices in the digital humanities and journalism, in order to relate historical content to current events and engage a wide audience.

Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. create collaboratively an interactive, multimedia-rich, responsive web project that combine journalistic reporting on a present day issue with historical investigation of that issue.
2. explain the basic infrastructure that runs the web, namely the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), as well as key design principles and technologies (HTML, CSS, Image manipulation, etc.).
3. prepare a plan that describes how the course’s web project can reach audiences through social engagement, public engagement, and pedagogy.


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