Some 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?