Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 3. Provides students with necessary critical framework and vocabulary for reading and interpreting visual, aural, dramatic, and/or digital representations and performances. Analysis of diverse multimedia texts to think critically about the politics of representation and the construction of individual and collective identities. Focus on developing, drafting, and revising written and multimodal compositions. Minimum of 15 pages of revised text required in addition to regular writing exercises. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.