fan culture course description, goals, outcomes
Students will become conversant with fan studies over the last decade as well as be able to describe the roots or history of fan studies. Through completion of a series of assignments ranging from original, researched infographics to dense multimodal websites designed for a variety of public audiences, students will produce their own original contributions to fan culture studies and critically incorporate the scholarly literature.
This course fulfills Emory’s Continuing Writing requirement -- which emphasizes writing frequency, process, quality, and variety. We also fulfill other national outcomes for postsecondary writing, multimodal composition (composition in modes other than writing and other than standard academic essay-writing), multilingualism where relevant, and writing-to-learn methods. Students write in class daily, blog to larger audiences weekly, draft and revise multiple multimodal projects, respond meaningfully to peers’ work in structured workshops regularly, and publish all of their work to a public-facing digital portfolio or “domain.” While students will get the chance to compose using a variety of easy-to-use digital tools, no technological expertise or aptitude is required to do well in this course. This class participates in the Domain of One's Own initiative. Students will register a personal domain name in order to publish coursework as well as administer their own website. Once you have completed the course (and indeed before), the site you built is yours to develop. Students often publish course projects, a professional portfolio, social media feeds, and blogs to their domains. |
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