ENG 200 - Social Media & Social Justice (SYS) (1)

Social media platforms like TikTok, twitter, Facebook, and more advertise themselves as tools for making and sustaining connections. For many, those connections function as a way of sharing information-about popular culture, life events, and social and political developments. In this course, we will discuss the potential that social media offers for inspiring genuine social change. Is Facebook doomed to be nothing more than a haven for conspiracy theories? Is twitter filled with nothing but bots? Do the geographic and demographic patterns of their users limit any meaningful impact? In this second-year seminar, we will combine critical readings and intense discussions with real-life projects like learning to write for social media in a professional capacity, writing and editing web copy, using modern media to create positive change in our communities, and generating community projects from conceptualization to completion. Only open to sophomores.
(Sophomore Year Seminar (SYS)) (Humanities)