Week 10: Ending Unit 2 & Starting Unit 3
Class Info
- Dates: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 (then Spring Break, Wednesday, April 5-Thursday, April 13) and Tuesday, April 18, 2023
- Meeting Info: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00-11:15am in room N618
Objectives
- To draft Project 2 and submit it before Spring Break or after (with proposal for revised due date)
- To complete any unfinished work, especially Project 1: Discourse Communities.
- To rest and recharge during Spring Break! Or to catch up during Spring Break to be in good shape for the rest of the semester!
- To consider multimodal texts and learn about Project 3
Week 10, Part 1
Week 10, Part 2
For Tuesday, 4/13
Reading
- Film: Passing (2021), directed by Rebecca Hall
- Movie trailer: Passing
- Passing Scene with Irene, Clare, and John Bellew (content warning: N word)
- Interview: Passing actors and director
- Podcast: “On Passing” (both audio and written transcript available)
Writing
- Finish Project 2
In Class Tuesday, 4/18
- Project 2 Reflection
- Introducing Project 3
- What is a multimodal text?
- Examples
For Tuesday, 4/13
Reading
- Film: Passing (2021), directed by Rebecca Hall
- Movie trailer: Passing
- Passing Scene with Irene, Clare, and John Bellew (content warning: N word, racist attitudes)
- Interview: Passing actors and director
- Podcast: “On Passing” (both audio and written transcript available)
Writing
- Finish Project 2
In Class Tuesday, 4/18
- Project 2 Reflection
- Introducing Project 3
- What is a multimodal text?
- what multimodal texts do we already compose in?
- texts/instagram thread/twitter thread/discord/reddit with images, videos, gifs, memes
- video with some text like TikTok
- blog post with images etc
- linking vs embedding (issues with copyright, size, etc)
- what multimodal texts do we consume?
- YouTube video–because it it includes video, text at least in the form of a transcript/subtitles
- TED Talk: video plus slides with visuals
- (visuals: photos, charts, graphs, data visualization, animation, plus words)
- podcasts
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