Media Degrees

...significant media texts that have been considered landmarks or have sustained extensive critical and scholarly discussion. This seminar will rely on lively interchange...

...Readings are in cultural and social history and historiographic method. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session We will focus this semester on transitional...

...solid storytelling in speculative fiction before we move on to how to translate those elements into various media. We will then explore how different presentations...

...and the gaming community contribute unique and diverse perspectives. Course culminates in an end of semester open house to showcase our games. Seminars... Learn about: Social Change, Social History...

...in conjunction with working on real-world projects for scholarly, educational, and public needs. Students create prototypes, write design papers...

...social sciences, humanities, and industry. Assignments focus on game analysis in the context of the theories discussed in class. Class meetings involve regular reading...

...The class analyzes the structure and evaluates the literary qualities of computer-based narratives including hypertexts, adventure games, and classic artificial...

...stories and games using simple authoring systems and multimedia software tools. Students present and constructively critique one another's work in progress...

...civic engagement among its residents." — MIT Center for Civic Media Lecture: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This course examines civic media in comparative...

...methods, and tools for understanding networked social movements in the digital media ecology. We will engage with social movement studies as a body... Learn about: Social Movements...

...and best practices for including communities in iterative stages of project ideation, design, prototyping, testing, launch, and stewardship...

...Students will be introduced to a range of positions about the nature of international textual trade, including economic arguments about the structuring... Learn about: International Trade...

...to controversies about taste and gender that have characterized its development. Our grounding in historical material will help make sense of our main focus...

...and made enduring our most profound artistic creations and scientific discoveries. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session Lab sessions... Learn about: Ms Word...

...studio production, and multi-media development, such as recent software, sound design for film and games, and sound installation. Sound as a media... Learn about: Communication Training, Medical training, Sound Design...

...is a multifaceted one that includes theoretical and philosophical works, histories canonical and minority, literature and art, as well as hands-on production...

...relations among media texts, policies, institutions, industries, and infrastructures. This class offers the opportunity to discuss, in stimulating and challenging... Learn about: Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This year, "Media, Education, and the Marketplace" focuses on the rise of information and communications technologies (ICTs)...

...to the forefront that will potentially define over a long term the use of information and educational technology by different sectors of the population...

...The course is designed to provide practical, hands-on experience to complement students' theoretical studies. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session... Learn about: Project Development...