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Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- Emphasizes
audience research and process approach to design
- Focuses
on making rhetorically informed content and design decisions, not on
learning any particular software programs
- Senior
capstone course is co-taught (1 computer science and 1 professional
writing and rhetoric faculty member)
- 3 courses
include client projects
- Encourages
collaboration among humanities and science students
Weaknesses
- Diverse
student academic experiences and expectations
- Designing
course goals is complicated - no prerequisites
- Identifying
real-world multimedia client projects that can be designed, developed,
and tested within limited time frame of one term
- Designing
senior seminar to integrate effectively major themes and topics covered
in core courses
- Too much
focus on web
- How much
new media theory?
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