Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
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Does posting a video of a mob lynching on YouTube, signing an online petition, reporting police violence on Twitter, and publicly disclosing classified government information count as democratic practices? This course explores the ever evolving relationship between political self-determination practices and the mediating digital infrastructures on regional, transnational and global scales. The core course question focuses on how the uses of corporate and non-corporate tools and services that make up our everyday digital ecologies may influence the conditions, institutions and practices of political engagement and democratic governance. Through a case study approach, the course investigates diverse concepts of democracy and its practices, enabling us to think about democratic practices in digital ecologies as alterable forms of organisation that are always in the making.
This course is part of the FirstBridge Digital Democracy – Global Perspectives (FB3). The other course connected to this FirstBridge is Comparative Democratic Theory (PL1099CCIFB3) taught by Prof.Julian Culp. The Reflective Seminar of this FirstBridge meets every other Wednesday, 13h45-16h40, and is co-taught by Prof. Fatima Aziz, Prof. Julian Culp, and librarian Michael Stoepel.
Learning Outcomes
- Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field (FB LO1)
- Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context (FB LO2)
- Students will grasp and express key core concepts in media/communication studies
- Students will understand and reconstruct scholarly texts in media/communication studies
- Students will identify, analyze and evaluate conceptual, empirical and normative political arguments
- Students will develop and convincingly argue for one’s own position on democratic participation in a digitalized world
- Students will develop a politically informed digital literacy that allows students to analyze, critique, and practice their own position on democratic participating, both on- and off-line
- Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate (CCI LO1)
- Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class (CCI LO3)
Syllabus
Schedule
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-103 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-103 |