Scholarship on multimodality repeatedly emphasizes the need not just for a multimodal focus in individual composition classrooms but also an integration of multimodality into the composition curriculum. Collectively, this scholarship sounds a call for a new kind of composition curriculum and, accordingly, new outcomes. This poses a key question for us as well: how might we develop, implement, and sustain multimodal curricula within composition programs so that curriculum reflects more accurately the current communicative landscape? To answer this overarching question, this project utilizes a mixed methods approach combining survey and case study methodologies. The findings for this dissertation include the following: 1) composition programs at the national level still focus overwhelmingly on print, proving that multimodal curricular transformation has not yet taken place; 2) there is little consensus on what a multimodal composition curriculum looks like or includes; 3) programs that have achieved multimodal curricular transformation do so at the intersection of outcomes statements and assignments; 4) outcomes statements at programs that have achieved multimodal curricular transformation define composition as a rhetorically-based, inquiry-driven process of making texts; and 5) assignments at programs that have achieved multimodal curricular transformation ask students to combine multiple modes, attend to design, exhibit material-rhetorical flexibility, and circulate the texts they create, thereby exhibiting transformed practice. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester 2016. / June 21, 2016. / administration, curricular revision, curricular transformation, multimodality, outcomes, outcomes statements / Includes bibliographical references. / Kristie Fleckenstein, Professor Directing Dissertation; Melissa Gross, University Representative; Michael Neal, Committee Member; Kathleen Blake Yancey, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_366031 |
| Contributors | Bearden, Logan Matthew (authoraut), Fleckenstein, Kristie S. (professor directing dissertation), Gross, Melissa (university representative), Neal, Michael R. (committee member), Yancey, Kathleen Blake, 1950- (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of English (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (227 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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