ENGRC 3025

Creating and Communicating Your Digital Professionalism

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Senior-level course focused on creating and communicating an online professional identity. The key learning outcome is to enable students to develop digital professionalism, defined as a multimodal communicative competence honed through the practice of creating, critiquing, and reflecting upon digital artifacts they use to build and present their professional and public identities. The course will focus students' attention on (i) Production: What are the implications of using a particular platform to create a professional self? (ii) Representation: What tools do they need to analyze their own multimodal presentation of their professional selves? (iii) Circulation: What are the effects of having online representations of themselves as professionals? and (iv) Audience: What are their expectations about who will be viewing/interpreting those professional selves and for what purpose?

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 completed internship, professional experience, or significant undergraduate research; familiarity with HTML, CSS, and/or website development. Corequisites: None.

Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Enrollment limited to: juniors and seniors.

Last 4 terms offered (None)

View Enrollment Information