DIGI 830 Seminar: Design, Technology, and Visualization

This course focuses on the utilization of principles and practices of video, graphic, and online visual persuasion.

Given the pervasiveness of digital communication, the student in this course will learn various techniques and approaches for proper and effective data visualization. The student will gain a knowledge of the history, varied usage, and benefits of data visualization. The student will also be given the opportunity to propose, create, and complete a data/visualization-related project/paper.

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After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in Course Overview.

The student will post a 5 – 7 minute video introduction in which the student will introduce himself/herself to the professor and his/her fellow DIGI 830 classmates. The student will also post substantive replies to at least 2 fellow classmates’ video introductions.

Academic Essay: Premises and Paradigms

The student will create a 5 – 7 page original formal research proposal in current APA format that explores the intersection of philosophy, theology, communication theory, and data visualization research and/or techniques. This essay requires the student to compare and to contrast several readings on these themes and to use them to evaluate their compatibility with several major approaches to communication theorizing.

The Critical Synopsis series of written assignments is designed to promote advanced cognitive engagement with module-specific course materials by guiding students through a structured process of synthesis, critique, and reflection. Each critical synopsis must encapsulate and evaluate the module’s readings and viewings via content that synthesizes, evaluates, and expands module-specific themes.

The Concept Analyses series of written assignments challenges students to select and analyze a key visualization-related ideas from the module/week’s assigned course readings, explain and exposit the concept, explore its broader scholarly significance, and integrate insights about it from peer-reviewed literature. Utilizing prescribed series of analytical prompts, the student must connect theory, method, and practice in ways that are both academically rigorous and relevant to real-world communication research and application.