Title: Language Specialist
College/Department: International Center for Academic and Professional English (ICAPE)
Course: WRT-003 Composition & Literature I
Student Enrollment: 36
Proposal: To move beyond conventional writing patterns, allowing each student to express their insights and discoveries in ways that resonate with their individual understanding and creative style, ultimately fostering a more authentic and profound engagement with academic expression. Students will analyze the techniques and messages of social, political, and activist cartoons, and apply that understanding to create a modernized version of a historical cartoon using AI.
This inquiry-based project empowers students to drive their own exploration. They begin by choosing a historical cartoon that sparks their curiosity and then independently investigate its context, message, and techniques. This research fuels critical thinking as learners analyze the cartoon's effectiveness and identify relevant contemporary parallels. The core of the inquiry lies in the problem-solving and creative process of modernizing the cartoon with AI image generators; students actively apply the knowledge gained throughout their research to remix the cartoon and communicate a chosen contemporary issue. By asking their own questions and seeking answers through research and creative application, students move beyond passive learning to a deeper, more engaged understanding.
CITL/I&O Collaborators: Justin D'Orazio and Allen Kingsbury