Fall 2023

Students in Eng 101 completed a remix/reimagine project/presentation with a reflective composition that contrasts some key events in the novel, The Complete Persepolis with that current “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” protests based out of Iran. While the events of the Islamic Revolution were over 40 years ago, it can be said that the current protests are a remix of what protestors experienced in the late 70s and early 80s.

This semester, English 101 composition students completed several rhetorical analysis papers on advertisements and media to examine prop, character, text, design, and any other elements’ contributions to the overall meaning of the media.  The classes then worked on remixing their choice of media into one of several different varieties of remix:  edit (removing or rearranging elements of a single media), mashup (mixing elements of two or more media), annotation (adding commentary to selections from one or more media), collage (adding original meaning or content in display to selections from one or more media), reboot (re-telling an existing story, using the overall structure and characters but little to none of the original media), fan-made (entirely new stories based on characters or settings taken from original media), or mosaics (entirely new stories with new characters that draw on elements from a variety of other media). Below are examples of the different types of remixes the students and the instructor created.