Students examine informal, non-institutional, everyday communication to consider we learn, communicate, and express identity, in both in-person and digital spaces. Students consider how deceptively simple modes of expression, such as slang, jokes, memes, room decoration, clothing, hazing, crafting, gestures, social media posts, can create extremely complex meaning in our lives, and how our everyday communication has and will continue to change in response to larger community and global situations.
Students examine informal, non-institutional, everyday communication to consider we learn, communicate, and express identity, in both in-person and digital spaces. Students consider how deceptively simple modes of expression, such as slang, jokes, memes, room decoration, clothing, hazing, crafting, gestures, social media posts, can create extremely complex meaning in our lives, and how our everyday communication has and will continue to change in response to larger community and global situations.
