Design and Media Undergraduate Degrees

...with community partners to create civic media projects grounded in real-world community needs. This course covers co-design and lean UX methods...

...examining visual experience in broad terms, and from the perspectives of both creators and viewers. The course addresses key topics such... Learn about: Art design, Creative Suite...

...economic, and historical worlds. It examines how environmental, linguistic, and musical sounds are construed cross-culturally. It describes the rise of telephony...

...age of digital media, participatory cultures, and technologized learning environments. Students will move quickly through traditional historical accounts of print literacies... Learn about: Social Networking, Media Studies, New Media...

...one of the oldest forms of television content. This class examines the history of these "soap operas" and their audiences by focusing on the production... Learn about: Communication Training...

...and historical context to analyze and compare game designs across a variety of genres. In teams, students design, develop, and thoroughly test their original... Learn about: Team Training...

...It combines perspectives on media industries and systems with an awareness of the creative process, the audience, and trends shaping content... Learn about: Team Training...

...are transforming popular culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film... Learn about: New Media, Film and Television...

...and presentations, we explore principles of game design and the social history of games. Guest speakers from academia, industry, the non-profit sector... Learn about: Social History, Social Change...

...key digital humanities concepts, such as data representation, digital archives, information visualization, and user interaction through the study of contemporary research...

...in the critical study of the economic, political, social, and cultural significance of media, and learn to identify, analyze, and understand the complex... Learn about: Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property...

...Looking at the life television texts maintain outside of their home market, this course examines questions of globalization and national cultures of production and reception... Learn about: International Trade...

...between good taste and bad judgment, and between men and women readers? This course will introduce students to the broad history of popular reading...

...specifically examining its effect and potential in developing nations across the world. In particular, the class will focus on the following three components...

...occurring both online and off, which have purportedly been brought about or exacerbated by our new media environment. Such aberrant behaviors seemingly... Learn about: New Media, Social Media...

...Assignments will include short response papers about three of the films in the series, and reports by students on examples of "neo-noir" films from recent decades...

...and images of the French tradition, and encourages students to explore the social and cultural roles and meanings of photographs. Designed to help students...

...the art of narration, directorial style, role of the scriptwriter, the development of schools and movements, the impact of political events and ideologies...

...immediate post-war years and discuss extensively major works of the "New German Cinema" of the Sixties and Seventies. We also look at examples of... Learn about: Film Making, Film Production...

...1.5 hours / session The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is "American Television: A Cultural History." The class takes a cultural approach...