Have you ever wondered how information evolves as it is communicated to different audiences and through different media? In this course we focus on how highly specialized scientific information is presented to and interpreted by a general audience that does not have technical knowledge. By examining press releases, news articles, government guidelines, advertising, and social media, we explore how scientific information is disseminated to the U.S. public and uncover what it takes to be scientifically literate in a twenty-first-century world. Course texts include a variety of traditional and multimodal sources, such as blogs, podcasts, and even pop songs.