COM LIT 1E
Social Media and Storytelling: Comparing Cultures
Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Study of social media as platform for storytelling, with core focus on three distinct cultures: U.S., China, and Russia. History, form, and various functions of social media. Examination of how we tell stories about ourselves and how we interpret digital narratives we see, hear, or read from organizations near and far. Analysis of networked narratives encountered online. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2018 - The biggest waste of time I've had at UCLA. You explore three unrelated topics every week. One is lecture, the other is discussion, and the other are "readings." Readings consist of one short story per week + a lot of outdated videos (circa 2014) that won't be discussed in lecture. Lectures are boring and very unprepared. Most of the time professor uses slides that are copied and pasted straight from the internet and sometimes he can't seem to recall why those slides are included in the powerpoint so he just skips them. Discussion is 2 hours long and quite sad. If you came to UCLA to learn new things, don't take this class. You can read a magazine and learn about the same amount of things you'll learn here
Fall 2018 - The biggest waste of time I've had at UCLA. You explore three unrelated topics every week. One is lecture, the other is discussion, and the other are "readings." Readings consist of one short story per week + a lot of outdated videos (circa 2014) that won't be discussed in lecture. Lectures are boring and very unprepared. Most of the time professor uses slides that are copied and pasted straight from the internet and sometimes he can't seem to recall why those slides are included in the powerpoint so he just skips them. Discussion is 2 hours long and quite sad. If you came to UCLA to learn new things, don't take this class. You can read a magazine and learn about the same amount of things you'll learn here
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