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Jeremy Sarachan
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication/Journalism
Director of the Program in Digital Cultures and Technologies
St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
Biography
Jeremy Sarachan is an Assistant Professor of Communication/Journalism at St. John Fisher College and director of Digital Cultures and Technologies, a new multidisciplinary program that combines work in Communication, Rhetoric, and Computer Science. He has studied virtual worlds and children, social games, and portrayals of autism in mainstream and social media.
Abstract
In this poster, I will present details of St. John Fisher’s new major in Digital Cultures and Technologies (http://dct.sjfc.edu). This major, which combines the humanities with information technology, represents a pedagogical shift in both communications and computer science. It represents a multidisciplinary approach to undergraduate education that is still far from common, and the ideal way to structure such programs remains uncertain. This particular program offers one approach for attendees of the HASTAC conference to consider for their universities and colleges. Specifically, newly designed programs must determine how to structure new and existing courses into a major that blends the theoretical and the pragmatic, and I would be ready to discuss such issues.