ASSIGNMENT: Digital Mapping Multimodal Project

ASSIGNMENT: Digital Mapping Multimodal Project

Description After spending the semester analyzing digital texts of different stylistic “modes” (linguistic, aural, visual, spatial, gestural), students produce their own digital texts through a mapping assignment. Students choose a public issue of local interest and...
ASSIGNMENT: Lab Project – Archaeological Methods

ASSIGNMENT: Lab Project – Archaeological Methods

Description This assignment takes students through the archaeological methods related to processing a new collection. Through this project, students learn the correct terms to describe artifacts, as well as the correct cataloging procedure. Students practice...
ASSIGNMENT: Mapping Atlanta Project

ASSIGNMENT: Mapping Atlanta Project

Description Your second assignment will be to use Google Maps to create a digital map of our two historical novels: Thomas Mullen’s Darktown and Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta. After you make these maps, which you will embed with materials related to both the novels...
SYLLABUS: Digitizing Atlanta

SYLLABUS: Digitizing Atlanta

Description This introductory undergraduate English course introduces students to the principles and practices of communication they need in their academic and professional lives. The goal of classes in the Writing and Communication Program is for students to develop...
ASSIGNMENT: Centennial & Sweet Auburn Field Trip

ASSIGNMENT: Centennial & Sweet Auburn Field Trip

Description While on a field trip to Sweet Auburn Market, students interview locals to discover the location’s underexposed narratives. They search for “missing plaques,” or histories that could be told but were excluded for some reason. After the...