​Digital Rhetoric Projects

English 665

Spring 2015 Syllabus

Instructor: Blanca Gomez

Office: UH 301.52                            

Class meets: M/W/Fri from 6:00 p.m.-7:10pm

Office Hours: MF 4-5:30p.m. and by appointment

Office Telephone: 909.537.5000

E-mail: bgomez@coyote.csusb.edu

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Required Textbooks & Materials: Assigned reading

 

We will use the following texts this semester:

Book #1

Author:    Halbritter, Bump

Title:      Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers.

ISBN:       1602353360

Publisher:  Parlor Press

Book #2

Author:     Alexander, Jonathan and Jacqueline Rhodes

Title:      On Multimodality New Multimedia and Composition Studies.

ISBN:       0814134122

Publisher:  CCC/NCTE

 

Book #3

Author:    Nichols, Bill.

Title:      Introduction to Documentary

ISBN:       0253108527

Publisher:  Indiana Up

 

Book #4

Author:    Chion, Michele.

Title:      Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

ISBN:       0231078986

Publisher:  Columbia UP

 

Readings online TBA

 

Portable media such as usb sticks for storage purposes required

 

What they would have read already

• Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities Authors: issues and options author James a. Inman, Cheryl Reed, Peter sands publisher: Mahwah, NJ [u.a.] Erlbaum 2004 (http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Collaboration-Humanities-Issues-Options/dp/080584147)

 

 

About the book: This volume provides an informed view of how information technology is shaping the contemporary humanities. It specifically reflects five ideals:

Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities is a great resource for colleges and universities because its focus is based on curriculum and communication across the curriculum programs. Specifically its focal point is educational English, Language and literature, new media technology and literacy studies.

 

• humanities scholars with all levels of access are doing important work with technology;

• humanities scholars' projects with technology reflect significant diversity, both across and within disciplinary bounds;

• using information technology in the humanities is a continuous conversation;

• information technology offers new options for humanities education; and

• just as collaboration changes the nature of any project, so does information technology change the nature of collaboration--its speed, character, methods, and possible implementations.

 

This book speaks about ways to explore new and important ways for humanities scholars for the purpose of collaborating across disciplines through electronic media. The emphasis of this book is to collaborate through electronic means. In addition, it presents insightful models and possible ways for student to collaborate as well as models for faculty collaboration. This book is great for professors to bring into their classrooms as a teaching tool. Since its chapters emphasizes pedagogy while also outlining contemporary issues. This book assists professors with their pedagogical responsibilities featuring the voices of humanities teacher-scholars.

 

2) Visual methodologies: an introduction to Researching with visual materials by Gillian rose 3rd edition publisher: Sage publications 2012

Reading images: the Grammar of Visual Design http://www.amazon.com/dp/085702888X/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

 

About the book: The Third Edition of “An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials”, demonstrates the importance of studies and analysis of visual culture. It allows readers a how to approach to individual methodology, while continuing to be clear in structure and lucid in style. This book reflects the changes in the way society acts as a consumer creating its visual content. It contains additional examples of digital and social media, pedagogical enhancements, along with a breadth of information on social and new media using visual materials for research presentation to use a wide range of different visual materials. It appeals to the following audience: undergraduates, graduates, researchers and academics in all subjects wanting to not only comprehend complexly debated notions enveloped in visual art but also those individuals who seek to understand or clearly comprehend complex about visual analysis and its interpretation.

 

3) Reading Images: the Grammar of Visual Design By Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415319153/ref=rdr_ext_tmb)

Publisher: Routledge Taylor Francis Group London and New York, 1996.

 

About the book: Reading Images builds its approach on the grammar of visual design. This book is engaging in that it models after a plethora of examples of children’s drawing from to fine art as well as three-dimensional forms such as toys and other structures. This book is incorporates for readers a refined lens on how images communicate meaning in a myriad of forms. Furthermore this book serves as a “tool kit” for those individuals interested in communication in the arts and media interdisciplinary fields.