ENGL 227 - Writing for Social Media

3 Credit(s)

Prerequisites: ENGL 101
Social media play an increasingly important role in the way communities, businesses, and individuals share information. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of how to compose content for a variety of media platforms. Students will maintain and add content to a website of their own design, updating it with periodic blog entries, PowerPoint presentations, white papers and e-books, podcasts, videos, and other media. Students will study both the technical skills they will need to produce this media as well as strategies for writing effectively and professionally in electronic formats.