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Mass Affect: Media Culture and Theory — FV2153.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
In this hybrid course, we will trace the development of audiovisual media (film, video, and sound art) and hybrid media practices through an interdisciplinary lens. Through screenings, listening sessions, theoretical readings, and discussion, we will investigate core ideas at the center of modern and contemporary time-based work, from experimental practices to the mass popular
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought Music

Mass Incarceration, an American Invention — APA2326.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course is a primer that serves to lay the backdrop for more specialized studies in American Justice systems. It is not a criminology course. It is a cultural exploration of the growth of incarceration in the United States and its peculiar connection to racial identity. With 2 million incarcerated people, the United States has had the highest rate of incarceration for more
CAPA

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Credits: 4
This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Julie Otsuka, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work
Literature

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Douglas Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Amy Hempel, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work
Literature

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Amy Hempel, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work
Literature

Material culture in and of media — MS2112.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Maia Nichols
Credits: 4
This course will focus on material culture: clothing, objects, art, tools, machines, toys, crafts and the physical stuff in and of media. By focusing on the material cultures of television, film, and images, the physical and material things in movies and photographs, and the beliefs and practices related to mediation through objects, students will gain knowledge in
Society Culture and Thought

Material Science — CER4106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Joshua Primmer
Credits: 2
In Material Science students will be exploring the science of glaze chemistry beginning with developing an understanding of the major components of a glaze and culminating with establishing the ability to create original glazes designed to fulfill predetermined traits. Some of the subjects explored will be color development, surface, glazes designed for the three major firing
Visual Arts

Material World — SCU2113.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations. The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with materials that we come across in this everyday modern life. Foundational understanding of these materials in their raw states; synthetic
Visual Arts

Materials and Methods: Painting Practicum — PAI4110.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 2
*****Prerequisites Updated as of 2/11/2022***** This seven-week intensive course is designed for students who may not have had the opportunity to enroll in fully studio-based introductory level painting courses in recent terms due Covid and the temporary shift to online teaching. Topics covered will be techniques and protocols for the use of VAPA and remote studios, including
Visual Arts

Mathematics of Fundamental Laws — MAT4120.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This is a course in advanced calculus, including vector calculus (div, grad, curl), ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. The goal is to learn enough mathematics to understand the formulation of the fundamental physical laws, and their most important solutions: Newtons laws and planetary motion; Maxwells laws and electromagnetic waves; Einstein's
Science Mathematics and Computing

Matter, Energy, and the Environment — ENV2326.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
Environmental issues are inherently cross-disciplinary. To effectively grapple with them, their economic, social, and political dimensions must be considered. But to truly understand such problems, their underlying scientific aspects cannot be ignored. Basic principles of energy, including thermodynamics and the nature of light and heat, as well the principles that describe
Visual Arts Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Measles and the (sometimes unnatural) history of outbreaks — MOD2153.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Zeke Bernstein
Credits: 1
We will use the recent measles outbreak in the United States as a lens into the history and also (murky) future of infectious disease outbreaks in our human race. We'll cover outbreaks and outbreak dynamics, along with foundational topics in microbiology, immunology, and infectious disease. We’ll also situate the current measles outbreak in the context of the ongoing
Modules: Transferable Approaches

Media and Democracy — APA2132.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
In the midst of the heat and noise of an election season, we will pursue an inquiry into the deeply entangled, complicit, and often conflicted role of media in a democratic society.  Topics may include:  historical precedence for media influence before and beyond American democracy, the role and responsibilities of a free press, the implications of corporate media
CAPA

Media and Democracy Workshop — APA2207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A laboratory for learning and working through the complexities of media's role in a democratic society. We will zero in on some of the pressing issues of this year's midterm elections, and use them as a lens onto topics such as : campaign finance, media ownership, information visualization (or distortion) by media, and some new strategies for media as a platform for ideas and a
CAPA Visual Arts

Media Archaeology: Signal and Data — APA4156.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A course exploring the 20th and 21st century media technologies, and various understandings of their social significance. Beginning with the development of radio and television, through the emergence of the computer and network technologies such as the internet and social media - this course takes up the questions of the transition from mechanical technologies to signal-based
CAPA

Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images – these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.
CAPA

Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images - these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.
CAPA

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm -- the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
CAPA Visual Arts

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
CAPA

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
CAPA

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
CAPA Visual Arts

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
Advancement of Public Action

Media, Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
CAPA

Mediated Movement: Camera and the Body in Hybrid Performance — FV4239.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kate Purdie and Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This hands-on course will explore and analyze the creative choices available and practical tools needed when we instigate a relationship between camera and movement, filmmaker and performer. We will develop common language, scores, and systems in an environment where perspectives of both performer and filmmaker are in conversation. Throughout, we will share and
Dance Visual Arts