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Course Description
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Course Name
Digital Literacies
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Host University
University of Roehampton
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Location
London, England
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Area of Study
Communication Studies, Linguistics
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Language Level
Taught In English
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Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): ELA020C001Y/ELA020C024A or S
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Course Level Recommendations
Upper
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UK Credits
20 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits5
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units7
Hours & Credits
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Overview
Assessment: oral presentation [20%], report on three analyses of digital literacy events [80%]
Prerequisite(s): ELA020C001Y/ELA020C024A or S
This module will help students explore how people communicate in a range of online contexts, e.g. blogs, wikis, digital remixing, games and gaming and social networking, by conducting their own research, using and evaluating theoretical approaches from the research literature in order to gain deeper understandings of what it means to be digitally literate.
Reading: Lankshear, C. and M. Knobel (2011) New Literacies (McGraw-Hill Open University Press); Barton, D. & C. Lee (2013) Language Online, (Routledge).
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