Institutional Learning Outcomes: Critical Thinking and Investigation Considering how we are flooded with complex data in our personal and public lives, students consider how professional communicators play a significant role in presenting this information in the public interest. Students understand and develop the ability to communicate the significance of data, in accurate, effective, and ethical ways as a core literacy across many fields, supporting organizational decision-making, journalistic storytelling, stakeholder engagement, and public relations. Students learn to pull relevant and insightful messages from data and develop skills in data storytelling to support the communication to diverse audiences. Students learn to use a variety of digital tools and techniques, including the selection and design of accurate visual forms, to translate data into story in this applied course.
Institutional Learning Outcomes: Critical Thinking and Investigation Considering how we are flooded with complex data in our personal and public lives, students consider how professional communicators play a significant role in presenting this information in the public interest. Students understand and develop the ability to communicate the significance of data, in accurate, effective, and ethical ways as a core literacy across many fields, supporting organizational decision-making, journalistic storytelling, stakeholder engagement, and public relations. Students learn to pull relevant and insightful messages from data and develop skills in data storytelling to support the communication to diverse audiences. Students learn to use a variety of digital tools and techniques, including the selection and design of accurate visual forms, to translate data into story in this applied course.
