CRWR 2300

This course focuses on the process of creative writing for digital media, with instruction in creating immersive and multilinear stories, dialogue, and characters specifically for digital environments. The course will explore interactivity, choice, games, and the immersive in Virtual Reality (VR)/ Augmented Reality (AR)/ Extended Reality (XR), social media, cyber theatre, video platforms, and other emerging spaces for digital storytelling. To inspire and inform engagement with the creative process, the course will survey the historical contexts of digital storytelling and examine the roots of digital storytelling concepts, as well as deeply engage with educational applications, experimental work, representation, and equity. Students' work with digital storytelling will be developed in a workshop environment; verbal participation and collaboration are essential to this course.