Late capitalist society is often defined by its monstrous appetite. Indeed, our need to consume plays a central though ambiguous role in the...
This course gives students the necessary tools to interpret a range of texts in various contexts. It is an extended practical application of selected...
The course provides the technical, cultural, and historical background to inform our cultural ideas, myths, and fears about technology. The focus of...
This course examines the nature of information in its various social, cultural, intellectual and material contexts. It starts with the history of the...
The course examines communication throughout history. It explores the relationship of communication media and technologies to society and culture. The...
This course examines currently implemented legal responses to the challenges of controlling information flow. These responses will then be discussed...
This course introduces basic concepts of political economy to the study of contemporary media. By examining corporate, public and alternative media...
The course explores traditions within media and cultural theory, including traditions such as cultural studies, semiotics, hermeneutics,...
This course introduces students to the role of communication and culture in international and transnational relations. Through the use of theories and...
Our reliance on private transport has produced a landscape dominated by the automobile: an environment to which we are culturally blind. This course...
This course examines the roles that media, technology, and other key social formations play in the production and reception of popular music; and the...
This course aims to ground students in the historical development in the methods of how propaganda and persuasion have been utilized in print and...
Antirequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): Corequisite(s): Pre-or Corequisite(s): Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. back to top
Antirequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): At least 65% in each of MIT 1200F/G, 1500F/G and 1700F/G. Corequisite(s): Pre-or Corequisite(s): Extra...
Exploration of a number of technologies that lie behind and fuel the technocultural imagination. Introduces contemporary technologies from both a...
Popular culture is the dominant commodity in the post-industrial world. This course will explore the way that it is structured and it structures us by...
This course emphasizes the development and manipulation of sound sources, especially music, within a mixed media context. Students will be introduced...
This course concentrates on developing digital imaging skills for the WWW and introduces HTML. Secondly, it focuses on the design and production of...
This course introduces the student to the concepts of visual literacy. Study concentrates on the elements and principles of basic two dimensional...