WDC 624: Transmedia Storytelling

Decorative image of light painting made with long exposure of a fire spinner wielding a staff.

This syllabus was first developed and taught in fall 2018 and then revised in 2019 in preparation for a ten-week compressed summer term. It will be offered next at Agnes Scott in Summer 2020.

Course Description

This course explores transmedia storytelling as a form of communicating ideas across a range of digital delivery platforms. Students learn to produce unique stories that can be expanded to engage diverse audiences for multiple purposes, including entertainment, marketing, and social change. Students identify and analyze the ways in which the stories or narratives acquire a new aesthetic and social significance as they expand to different media.

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