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ANTH 116 PO-01: Anthropology of Digital Culture

  • Instructor: Lippman, Alexandra Sharp
    • Tuesday; 1:15-4:00PM
    • Room 107 (Hahn Social Science Bldg)
    • Elective

Technology from the wheel to the printing press has influenced identity, community and society throughout time. Currently, we are in the midst of one of the most significant technological shifts in human history because of digital technologies. Using anthropology as cultural critique, we will examine the new (and not-so-new) cultural, political and material practices connected digital technology. Topics covered include activism, identity, friendship, hacking, piracy, property, privacy, identity, labor, and embodiment. Course is equivalent to ANTH116 PZ.

ARHI 140 PO-01: The Arts of Africa

  • Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis J.
    • Tuesday; 1:15-4:00PM
    • Room 110 (LeBus Court)
    • Elective

Survey exploring aesthetic, formal, cultural and national diversity of African arts and architecture. Emphasis on the social, political and religious dynamics fostering art production, iconographic themes, and aesthetic philosophies at specific historic moments in West, Central and North Africa. Critical study of Western art historical approaches and methods used to study diverse traditional African arts and post-independence cinema. Letter grade only.

ARHI 178 PO-01: Black Aesth/Pol (Re)presenation

  • Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis J.
    • Thursday; 1:15-4:00PM
    • Room 110 (LeBus Court)
    • Media Theory

Course examines the visual arts (including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, textiles, mixed media, installations, performance, independent film and video) produced by people of African descent in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis on Black artists’ changing relationship to African arts and cultures, the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition interrogating visual constructs of “Blackness” and “Whiteness,” gender, sexuality and class as a means of revisioning representational pratices. Course provides a social-historical frame for the interpretation and analysis of form, content and the production of historically situated cultural criticism. Letter grade only.

ARHI 186Y PO-01: Cinema Against War

  • Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis J.
    • Wednesday; 1:15-4:00PM
    • Room 110 (LeBus Court)
    • Media History/Media Theory

Advocates for human rights and justice create documentary films (weapons for mind decolonization) calling for a paradigm shift through visual narratives effectively silenced by commercial mass media and post-9/11 nationalism. [Following the 2016 US Presidential election,] this study of visual culture and theories of representation is for global villagers eager to raise their historical awareness, deconstruct the rhetoric of power elites, debunk the conceits of imperialism, and dismantle the deceits of transnational corporations. Course promotes active spectatorship, courage as the antidote to fear, and anti-war activism (see: http://costofwar.com/index.html) Requirements: your humanity and recognition of dissent as a constitutional right.

MS 049 PO-01: Intro to Media Studies

  • Instructor: Friedlander, Jennifer
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-10:50PM
    • Room 02 (Crookshank Hall)
    • Intro to Critical Studies

Introduction to Media Studies. Presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis and the construction of content. Read theory, history and fiction; view films and television programs; and write research and opinion papers. Same course as SC 49.

MS 049 PO-02: Intro to Media Studies

  • Instructor: Long, Andrew C.
    • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00-12:15PM
    • Room 08 (Crookshank Hall)
    • Intro to Critical Studies

Introduction to Media Studies. Presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis and the construction of content. Read theory, history and fiction; view films and television programs; and write research and opinion papers. Same course as SC 49.

MS 050 PO-01: Introduction to Film

  • Instructor: Engley, Ryan
    • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00AM-12:15PM
    • Room 02 (Crookshank Hall)
    • Intro to Critical Studies

One of three gateway courses to the Media Studies major, this course introduces film and video from aesthetic, historical, and political perspectives. Students learn the basic categories necessary to comprehend formally the filmic image: cinematography, mise-en-scene, and editing. Students study the history of genres and film movements and engage the theory and politics of filmic representation. Same course as LIT 130 CM.

MS 050 PO-02: Introduction to Film

  • Instructor: Wynter, Kevin
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • Room 10 (Crookshank Hall)
    • Intro to Critical Studies

One of three gateway courses to the Media Studies major, this course introduces film and video from aesthetic, historical, and political perspectives. Students learn the basic categories necessary to comprehend formally the filmic image: cinematography, mise-en-scene, and editing. Students study the history of genres and film movements and engage the theory and politics of filmic representation. Same course as LIT 130 CM.

MS 071 PO-01: Conspiracy and Media

  • Instructor: Long, Andrew C.
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
    • Room 08 (Crookshank Hall)
    • Media History

This course explores conspiracy narratives as modern, and perhaps post-modern cultural phenomena, that are inseparable from populist politics. Living in the digital era, we must ask if the prevalence of conspiracy narratives now is a symptom of an epochal break, or rather, an intensification of a long 20th century phenomenon.We will deal with conspiracy narratives as they function as a form of social knowledge, albeit deeply flawed in many ways, that mobilize and structure a deep and virulent tradition of semiotic references. This semiotic history is in turn grounded in popular literature and popular culture, especially visual culture, and cinema. We will read conspiracy narratives in two different ways, that is as cultural historians (materialist and historical) with reference to film (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Four Feathers, The Matrix), literature (The Secret Agent, The Crying of Lot 49) and popular culture (eGames). We will also look at conspiracy texts through four hermeneutic terms: lost cause (and Lost Cause with the objet petit a), foreclosure (forclusion), ressentiment (paranoia and castration), and information (knowledge).

MS 150 PO-01: Seriality

  • Instructor: Engley, Ryan
    • Monday/Wednesday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • Room 207 (Crookshank Hall)
    • Media Theory

Serial media is ubiquitous. The method of distributing installments of a larger narrative over time has seen increasing prominence in a variety of media forms, ever since the birth of mass media and the serial novel in the mid-19th century. From the early film serials of The Perils of Pauline and Flash Gordon to Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from the popular radio serials of The Shadow and The Lone Ranger to true crime podcasts Serial and My Favorite Murder, from the development of the traditional network television series to the ‘binge model’ of Netflix, serial narrative has enabled complex longform storytelling and engaged and enraged audiences. But to study seriality is not just to observe an industry strategy for releasing narrative. Nor is it sufficient to simply acknowledge how seriality ensnares author, text, and audience. The study of seriality involves excavating and articulating a comprehensive theory. Looking to psychoanalysis, existentialism, radical feminism, and Black Marxism, with supplemental examination of narrative, audience, and authorship studies, this course will aim to understand seriality as a textual, social, psychical, and political form. Prerequisites: one of MS 049 PO, MS 050 PO, MS 051 PO, MS 092 PO or equivalents. Letter grade only.

MS 190F JT-01: Fall Senior Seminar

  • Instructor: Friedlander, Jennifer
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-2:30PM
    • Room 08 (Crookshank Hall)
    • Capstone

MUS 091 PO-01: Sound, Cognition, and History

  • Instructor: Cramer, Alfred W.
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
    • Room 109 (Thatcher Music Bldg)
    • Elective

This multi-disciplinary course examines sound as a cultural and technological artifact. Surveying recent scholarship in cognitive science, history, musicology, media studies and psychoacoustics, we study film, music, historical recording devices and other technologies, architectural and urban spaces and other sites of sound in the world from roughly 1500 to the present

MUS 096A PO-01: Electronic Music Studio

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30PM
    • STDO (Thatcher Music Bldg)
    • Elective

Introductory laboratory course designed to develop electronic compositions using techniques of analog and digital synthesis. Permission of instructor required.

PSYC 160 PO-01: Cognitive Psychology with Lab

  • Instructor: Sher, Shlomo
    • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00AM-12:15PM
    • Room 108 (Hahn Social Science Bldg)
    • Wednesday; 7:00-9:50PM
    • Room 101 (Edmunds)
    • Elective

Survey of major models, methods, and findings in cognitive psychology. Topics will include perception, attention, memory, reasoning, decision making, and the development of expertise. Insights will be drawn from behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and the study of brain mechanisms. Prerequisites: 51.

THEA 001A PO-01: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

  • Instructor: Ratteray, Carolyn
    • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:30PM
    • Room 122 (Seaver Theater)
    • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA 001A PO-02: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

  • Instructor: Klein, Talya
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35AM-12:05PM
    • Room 130 (Seaver Theater)
    • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA 001A PO-03: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

  • Instructor: Knox, Jill
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-3:45PM
    • Room 122 (Seaver Theater)
    • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA 002 PO-01: Intro to Theatrical Design

  • Instructor: French, Monica M.
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-10:50AM
    • Room 200 (Seaver Theater)
    • Elective

This course is an introduction to the design process for a wide range of performance-based productions including theatre, dance, opera, and film. Readings, discussions, and writing are supplemented by creative projects, interviews with Designers in each field and attendance at live performances when possible.

THEA 012 PO-01: Intermediate Acting

  • Instructor: Ratteray, Carolyn
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-3:45PM
    • Room 122 (Seaver Theater)
    • Elective

ElectiveThis course continues the investigation of the tools and techniques explored in the Beginning Acting class. Students will delve into scene study, improvisation, and Stanislavski-based analysis techniques as well as deepen the connection between the truth of their emotional life and how it is expressed vocally and physically. May be repeated twice for credit. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: THEA 001A PO or THEA 001G PO.