Other Selfie Syllabi and Teaching Resources

Besides our Selfie Course, other scholars, teachers, and instructors have used selfies pedagogically.

Mark Marino is a professor of writing at USC. Inspired by our Selfie Course, he taught a #SelfieClass called “Selves and Selfies” and has generated a lot of great material for teaching selfies.

Course readings
Essay assignment “Know Thy Selfie — An exercise in Selfie Reflection”
Assignment “Why do my Facebook friends look just like me?”
Assignment “Speculative Selfies”
Assignment “Unpacking videos”

Miriam Posner is teaching a class at UCLA called “Selfies, Snapchat & Cyberbullies: Coming of Age Online.” Her class website includes assignments, a reading schedule, and resources on digital ethnography.

Tara Zepel is currently teaching at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and has developed a course, Studying Selfies. The syllabus includes a Selfie Exhibition assignment and an example schedule.

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The Selfies Research Network is an international group of academics studying the social and cultural implications of the selfie. Our membership includes teachers, students, visual artists, reporters, and others from around the globe. Our projects include publications, conference panels, gallery installations, and teaching resources regarding the politics and aesthetics of selfie culture. We also have vibrant discussions on our Facebook group, which anyone is free to join.

Our newest project is a five-week class (including syllabus and teaching exercises) for students studying selfies. The class has been designed for university students in the fields of communication, media studies, digital culture, sociology, or cultural studies. In September and October 2014, we ran the class online with a select group of international students. If you are interested in taking or teaching this class (in total, or in parts, now, or in the future), you can learn more here.