Spring 2027

Media Fluency for the Digital Age

Introduction to digital media and its influence on society, culture, politics, and economy; creates on-trend content and critically examines mediums, messages, and audiences.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.50 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.63 GPA, 85.2% A/AB (n=81 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 86.1% A/AB (n=79 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand what it means to be digitally fluent.

  • Understand key media fluency terms and know why they are important.

  • Critically examine how digital media forms are both consumed and produced in society - and how this affects society, culture, politics, and the economy.

  • Apply media fluency knowledge and skills to produce fun and interesting, yet critical and thought-provoking digital media across a variety of forms – including podcasts, video, blogs, Wikipedia content, and other forms of social media.

  • Be aware of ethics, policies, and industry standards surrounding content production in the digital space.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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JOURN 175

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.50 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.63 GPA, 85.2% A/AB (n=81 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.62 GPA, 86.1% A/AB (n=79 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Digital media and its relationship to society, culture, politics, and the economy
  • Creating on-trend digital media content
  • Critical examination of digital mediums, messages, and audiences
  • Production of podcasts, video, blogs, Wikipedia content, and social media
  • Ethics, policies, and industry standards in digital content production

Skills

  • Digital fluency
  • Media fluency terminology
  • Critical examination of digital media consumption and production
  • Producing digital media across podcasts, video, blogs, Wikipedia, and social media
  • Awareness of ethics, policies, and industry standards in digital content production

Grades

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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JOURN 175 · Spring 2027

Media Fluency for the Digital Age

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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