This course can be used towards the Instructional Dimensions major or minor requirements.
This graduate course will explore theory and research related to multimodal literacies, with particular attention to multilingual learners and settings. Students will read seminal and current research that focuses on bi/multilingual youth's digital and multimodal meaning-making. We will examine the pedagogical implications for scaffolding youth's multimodal practices in online and face-to-face settings, as well as gain experience with innovative methods for capturing, analyzing, and representing rich digital multimedia data. This course offers hands-on experience with analyzing data and flexibility for pursuing specific research interests related to digital literacies.