communication

Current Courses - Spring 2010

Summer 2010
Fall 2010
Past Winter 2010

ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY IN ALL CLASSES AND SECTIONS IN THE FIRST WEEK OF THE QUARTER

All majors meeting the pre-requisites of a class will be allowed to enroll during WebReg. WebReg times are allocated by class standing so declared majors should not suffer any adverse effects from the system. If you try to WebReg for a class that is full, put yourself on the waitlist as the university now uses an automatic waitlist system to add students into classes. If a seat opens you will be added into this class automatically. For updated communication course information look on the Communication

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COMMUNICATION LOWER DIVISION

COGN 20
Introduction to Communication (4) Boatema Boateng
Lecture: MWF 2:00 – 2:50PM PCYNH 106
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 677855 M 9:00 – 9:50AM Center 217B
A02 677856 M 3:00 – 3:50PM HSS 1305
A03 677857 Tu 8:00 – 8:50AM WLH 2110
A04 677858 Th 5:00 – 5:50PM Center 220
A05 677859 W 9:00 – 9:50AM Center 217B
A06 677860 Th 6:00 – 6:50PM Center 220
A07 677861 W :00 – 3:50PM HSS 2152
A08 677862 Th 7:00 – 7:50PM Center 220

A historical introduction to the development of the means of human communication, from language and early symbols, through the introduction of writing, printing and electronic media, to today’s digital and multimedia revolution. Examines the effect of communications media on human activity, and the historical forces that shape their development and use.

COGN 21
Methods of Media Production (4) Zeinabu Davis
Lecture: TuTh 5:00 – 6:20PM Solis 107
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 677864 M10:00 – 11:50AM MCC 133
A02 677865 Tu 6:30 – 8:20PM HSS 2152
A03 677866 W 5:00 – 6:50PM HSS 2152
A04 677867 Th 6:30 – 8:20PM HSS 2152
A05 677868 F 8:00 – 9:50AM MCC 133
A06 677869 F 3:00 – 4:50PM MCC 133

This course explores fundamental technical and social constraints shaping media production. We read film and television as texts by considering history, theory, genre and practical technique. COGN 22 and COGN 21 taken concurrently are strongly recommended. COGN 22 is required for students interested in advanced communication production in media courses. Majors must enroll for a letter grade.

COGN 22
Methods/Media Production Lab (2) Zeinabu Davis
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A00 677870 M 12:00 – 2:50PM MCC 222
B00 677871 Tu 9:00 – 11:50AM MCC 222
C00 677872 W 2:00 – 4:50PM MCC 222
D00 677873 Th 9:00 – 11:50AM MCC 222

COGN 22 is required for students interested in advanced Communication production courses. In groups in lab students work hands on with video and new media equipment, exploring fundamental technical constraints shaping media production. COGN 21 and COGN 22 strongly recommended concurrently. Prerequisites: COGN 21 (may be taken concurrently).

 

COMMUNICATION UPPER DIVISION


COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE



COCU 100
Introduction to Communication and Culture (4) Elana Zilberg
Lecture: TuTh 12:30 – 1:50PM Peterson 110
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 677836 M 9:00 – 9:50AM U413-1
A02 677837 M 10:00 – 10:50AM HSS 1315
A03 677838 M 11:00 – 11:50AM TM102 – 1
A04 677839 Tu 8:00 – 8:50AM Center 201
A05 677840 Tu 6:00 – 6:50PM HSS 2154
A06 677841 W 2:00 – 2:50PM HSS 2152
A07 677842 W 3:00 – 3:50PM HSS 2152
A08 677843 W 4:00 – 4:50PM HSS 2152
A09 677844 Th 10:00 – 10:50AM Center 201
A10 677845 Tu 5:00 – 5:50PM HSS 2154
A11 677846 F 8:00 – 8:50AM HSS 2152
A12 677847 F 9:00 – 9:50AM Center 205

Processes of communication shape and are shaped by the cultures within which they occur. This course emphasizes the ways in which cultural understandings are constructed and transmitted via the variety of communication media available to members. A wide range of cultural contexts are sampled, and the different ways that available communication technologies (language, writing, electronic media) influence the cultural organization of people’s lives are analyzed. Prerequisites: COGN 20

COCU 108
Visual Culture (4) Lisa Cartwright
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 – 3:20PM Center 109
Section ID: 677848
How visual images contribute to our understanding of the world and ourselves. Theoretical approaches from media studies, art history, gender studies, and social theory will be used to analyze cultures of science, art, mass media, and everyday life. Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

COCU 136
Concepts of Freedom (4) Valerie Hartouni
Lecture: TuTh 11:00 – 12:20PM CSB 001
Section ID: 677849
This course examines some of the changing cultural, social, technological, and political meanings, practices, and aspirations that together constitute what is, and has been, called Freedom. Prerequisite: COCU 100.

COCU 170
Advertising and Society (4) Chad Harris
Lecture: M 6:00 – 8:50PM CSB 001
Section ID: 677850
Advertising in historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Topics will include the ideology and organization of the advertising industry; the meaning of material goods and gifts in capitalist, socialist, and nonindustrial societies; the natures of needs and desires and whether advertising creates needs and desires; and approaches to decoding the messages of advertising. Prerequisite: COCU 100.

COCU 172
The Cultural Politics of Sport (4) Michael Hanson
Lecture: TuTh 9:30 – 10:50AM PCYNH 122
Section ID: 677851
(Previously COSF 172.) Examine sports as play, performance, competition, an arena where there are politics, culture, poser, identity struggles. Establishing the social meanings of sport, we address: ethics, race, class, nation, gender, body, science, technology, entertainment industries, commerce, spectatorship, consumption, amateurism, professionalism. Students may not receive credit for both COCU 172 and COSF 172. Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

COCU 175
Advanced Topics in Communication and Culture (4) Denise McKenna
Title: American Film 1890 - 1950
Lecture: MW 3:30 – 4:50PM CSB 002
Section ID: 677852
This class examines the first 60 years of American cinema, from early forms of projected entertainment to the advent of broadcast television. We will consider such topics as stars, directors, style and aesthetics, gender, race, identity and representation, and examine various genres such as the melodrama, the war film, comedy, the musical, and film noir.  Film screenings, papers, and class participation are required. Prerequisite: COCU 100.

COCU 175
Advanced Topics in Communication and Culture (4) Lisa Bloom
Title: The Price of Remembering and Forgetting
Lecture: W 5:00 – 7:50PM PCYNH 121
Section ID: 683241
The course will reflect on why major traumatic historical events such as the Holocaust, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, and 9/11 occupy an important part in our consciousness whereas other profound historical moments such as the violence from the Jim Crow era, the political assassinations of the 1960s, the McCarthy era, the Women’s Movement, Hurricane Katrina, Abu Ghraib, and other historic events stand distantly behind? Why are certain historical events and public figures sometimes remembered at the expense of others? How do visual representations of the recent past affect how history is remembered, selected and forgotten? Why are certain aspects of well-remembered traumatic historical events resistant to representation?  Prerequisites: COCU 100 or consent of instructor. Prerequisites: COCU 100.

COCU 183
Pop Music, Social Practice and Cultural Politic (4) Michael Hanson
Lecture: TuTh 5:00 – 6:20PM Center 222
Section ID: 677853
Focuses on popular music as a social, aesthetic, historical, political formation. Relationship between musical and extramusical forces (institutions, communities, industries, identities) will be examined. Music making, hearing, performance will be engaged as sites of expressive practice, cultural politics, social identity. Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

 

GENERAL COMMUNICATION


COGN 150 A00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Valerie Hartouni
Title: Reading the Body
Lecture: W 9:00 – 11:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 677874
In this class we will examine some of the many forms and practices of construction and modification that render the otherwise "natural body" a culturally legible artifact. Of particular interest are the ways in which the body's surface, often thought to reveal some truth about who or what one is, functions as a complicated system of representation that is at the same time most one's own and most not. Prerequisite: Senior Standing

COGN 150 B00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Ayhan Aytes
Title: Social Media and Crowdsourcing: The Cultural Logic of Web 2.0
Lecture: M 3:00 – 5:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 677875This seminar will address issues related to social networking, crowdsourcing, file sharing platforms, video-sharing sites, games and virtual environments in terms of their influence on the novel forms of social interactions and community practices. One way to look at the social media is through the focus on the assembly of Internet technologies branded as Web 2.0 that facilitate these social media applications. We will explore this media ecology with a particular focus on the questions of its cultural consequences: How do these new media platforms enable collective production and consumption of cultural content on the net, what is the economic nature of these cultural products and how do these seemingly disembodied digital processes interact with our corporeal conditions? In addition to the potentials and the limitations of corporate social media platforms, we will look at the alternative zones where creative, political and intellectual collectives emerge, intervene and dissolve. The seminar discussions will also highlight the literacy of digital tools and their uses as tactical media applications. Prerequisite: Senior Standing.

COGN 150 C00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Kelly Gates
Title: The History of Photography
Lecture: Th 3:30 – 6:20PM MCC 133
Section ID: 677876
The transition to digital photography provides occasion to reflect anew on the history of the medium.  This course offers an in-depth examination of that history from the 1820s to the present, not through lens of well-knowninventors or photographers but from a broader socio-cultural perspective. Special attention is given to police use of photography and the introduction of photographic evidence in the legal system, the professionalization of photojournalism, the integration of photography into advertising, the rise of amateur photography, entertainment and scientific uses of still photography and early motion pictures, and twentieth century developments. The course concludes with an examination of the social, cultural, and political issues that are influencing and arising from the development of digital imaging techniques, online photo sharing, and the new archival practices afforded by computerization. Prerequisite: Senior standing

COGN 150 D00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Patrick Anderson
Title: Performing Crisis
Lecture: W 3:00 – 5:50AM MCC 139
Section ID: 677877
In the past year, public education broadly -- and in California especially -- has undergone a political, economic, and cultural crisis as it has faced diminishing legislative support and public funding. This senior seminar will be research-oriented and studio-based, investigating the notion of "crisis" and the opportunities and risks that such an event provides. Students will work independently and in small groups to research the history of public higher education in California, and will collectively develop a series of interventions, displays, and performances aimed to critique the current crisis and to propose a variety of alternative responses. NOTE: No formal performance training or experience is required for registration; but students should be prepared to participate in individual and group performances. Prerequisite: Senior standing.

COGN 175
Advanced Topics in General Communication (2) Michele Goldwasser
Section ID: 677878
Students registered for AIP 197 and want to get Communication credit for it need to webreg for this. Contact the professor for approval.

 

COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING

COHI 117
Language, Thought and the Media (4) Elana Collavin
Lecture: TuTh 6:30 – 7:5PM Peterson 102
Section ID: 677997
This course examines the ways in which various communicative channels mediate human action and thought. A basic premise of the course is that human thought is shaped in important ways by the communicative devices used to communicate. There is a particular emphasis on how thought develops, both historically and in the individual. Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

COHI 134
Language and Human Communication (4) Dennis Selder
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 – 3:20PM PCYNH 121
Section ID: 677998
This course examines the interaction of language and culture in human communication. Beginning with language evolution, the course then discusses a broad range of human languages including indigenous languages, sign languages, and hybrid languages spoken in urban centers. Prerequisite: COHI 100

COHI 175 A00
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) Gonen Dori-Hacohen
Title: Radio as a Medium: Past, Present, and Future
Lecture: TuTh 2:00 - 3:20PM Peter 104
Section ID: 677999
Description: This course takes a theoretical look at the radio as a medium. It discusses it rich past of both the private and the public radio systems. It discusses the different genres that are currently broadcast and their social functions. Radio stations and programs are used to organize communities, to construct shared identities and to pass the time while driving. In light of the technological development, the last part of the course discusses the question of the future of the radio, if such exists. Prerequisite: COHI 100.

COHI 175 B00
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) Michele Goldwasser
Title: Language Socialization
Lecture: TuTh 12:30 – 1:50PM PCYNH 122
Section ID: 678000
Language socialization is the process of becoming an active member of a community through the use of language and the process of learning to use language competently within that community.  Increasingly, the media influences these processes.  This course will examine cultural differences and media influence on language socialization.  Our approach will be comparative, allowing us to analyze the relationship between language, ideology, and identity.  We will focus on the link between language and learning, examining linguistic practice at home, in the classroom, and in media. Prerequisite: COHI 100.

 

COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA METHODS

COMT 100
Non-Linear Digital Editing (4) Dan Martinico
Lecture: M 3:00 – 5:50PM MCC 221
Section ID: 678001
This course will prepare students to edit on non-linear editing facilities and introduce aesthetic theories of editing: time code editing, time line editing on the Media 100, digital storage and digitization of audio and video, compression, resolution and draft mode editing. By the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate mastery of the digital editing facilities. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22.

COMT 112
Ethnographic Methods for Media Research (4) – Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
Lecture M 5:00 – 7:50 Room Pcynh 120
Section 686800
This is a practical course on ethnographic fieldwork—obtaining informed consent interviewing, negotiating, formulating a research topic, finding relevant literature, writing a research paper, and assisting others with their research. Course can be taken to meet COHI major requirement. Prerequisite: COHI 100

COMT 115
Media and Design / Social Learning Contexts (6) Robert Lecusay
Lecture: MW 1:30 – 2:50PM SSRB 305
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 678003 TuTh 3:30 – 5:20PM
A02 678004 MW 4:00 – 6:00PM

A combined lecture/lab course cross listed in Communication and Human Development Students attend lecture, write fieldnotes, and spend 3 hours per week in specially designed afterschool setting working with children and designing new educational media and producing special projects. Prerequisite: COHI 100 or HDP 1

COMT 116
Practicum in Child Development (6) Angelica Marcello
Lecture: TuTh 9:30 – 10:50AM Solis 109
Section ID’s assigned by section:

A01 678006 MW 9:00 – 10:30AM
A02 678007 MW 10:30 – 12:00PM
A03 678008 MW 4:00 – 5:30PM
A04 678009 TuTh 3:00 – 4:50PM
A05 678010 W 3:00 – 4:30PM
A06 678011 W 4:30 – 6:00PM
A07 678012 TuTh 4:00 – 5:20PM
A08 678013 TuW 4:00 – 5:30PM
A09 685363 W 9:30 – 11:00

A combined lecture and lab course for students in Psychology, Communication and Human Dev. Student backgrounds should include a background in general psychology or communication. Students will be expected to spend four hours per week in a supervised practical after school setting at one of the community field sites involving children. Additional time will be devoted to readings and class prep, as well as six hours a week transcribing field notes and writing a paper on some aspect of the field work experience as it relates to class lectures and readings. Prerequisite: COHI 100 or HDP 1 or Psych 101.

COMT 125
Representing Communication (4) Kelli Moore
Lecture: MWF 10:00 – 10:50AM Center 224A
Section ID: 678014
T his is a small hands-on class about how to represent an academic Communication Department to a wider community. Students create quarterly electronic newsletters and special events. Selected readings on the entrepreneurial university and communication are required. Prerequisite: Communication majors only

COMT 175A
Advanced Topics in Communication: Media Method (4) Patricia (Ivonne) Montoya
Title: Scripting Strategies
Lecture: TuTh 12:30 – 1:50PM MCC 221
Section ID: 678016
This course emphasizes the structural character of the scripting process and its language by analyzing different structural and conceptual editing techniques in traditional and experimental fiction and non-fiction film and video productions.  Students will write the final draft of a working script by following the stages of story development.  The projects developed in class will be an exploration of the author’s own passion, particular interests and voice. Prerequisite: COGN 21 and 22.

COMT 175A
Advanced Topics in Communication: Media Method (4) Zeinabu Davis and Olga Vasquez
Title: The History of Chicano Park, Community Media Production
Lecture: M 11:00 – 1:50PM MCC 140
Section ID: 678018
This upper division undergraduate course interlaces history, social activism, Chicano art as well as  media production with the 40th anniversary of Chicano Park in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood. Students will learn how the Chicano Art Movement, sociopolitical conditions and community activism led to the creation of Chicano Park and made its murals famous worldwide. The course includes readings, lectures from the professors and guest speakers and media production lab sessions. Students will be expected to be present for the celebration on Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and use media production—e.g., videotaping, recording oral histories, photographing and blogs, twitter etc to help archive and preserve the event on film, a website, print and/or any other digital form. The community-wide anniversary celebration is free. Prerequisite: COGN 21 and 22.

COMMUNICATION AS SOCIAL FORCE

COSF 126
The Information Age in Fact and Fiction (4) - Nadine Kozak
Lecture TuTh 6:30 – 7:50 Centr 222
Section ID 685390
Analysis of the forces propelling the “Information Age.” An examination of the differential benefits and costs, and a discussion of the presentation in the general media of the “Information Age.” Prerequisite: COSF 100 .

COSF 130
History of Electronic Media (4) John McMurria
Lecture: TuTh 11:00 – 12:20PM PCYNH 121
Section ID: 678020
This course considers the social, cultural, economic, and technological contexts that have shaped electronic media, from the emergence of radio and television to their convergence through the internet, and how these pervasive forms of audiovisual culture have impacted American society. Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

COSF 139B
Law, Communication and Freedom of Expression (4) Ryan Ellis
Lecture: TuTh 3:30 – 4:50PM PCYNH 121
Section ID: 678026
An examination of the legal framework of the freedom of expression in the United States. 139A covers the fundamentals of First Amendment law through the consideration of key cases in historical context. Prior restraint, incitement, obscenity, libel, fighting words, public forum, commercial speech, and hate speech are some of the topics covered. 139B focuses on the law of mass communication, examining the different legal treatments accorded print, broadcasting, cable, and common carriers. The decline of broadcast regulation, the breakup of AT&T, the rise of new forms of mass communication, and the question of the public interest are of central concern. Prerequisites: 139A-COSF 100 or PS 40. 139B-COSF 100 or PS 40, COSF 139A preferred.

COSF 140A
Comparative Media Systems: Asia (4) Nitin Govil
Lecture TuTh 9:30 – 10:50 WLH 2114
Section ID 678029
The development of media systems in Asia: focusing on India and China. Debates over nationalism, regionalism, globalization, new technologies, identity politics, censorship, privatization and media piracy. Alignments and differences with North American and European media systems will also be considered. Prerequisite: COSF 100

COSF 140C
Comp Media System: Latin American and Caribbean (4) Magali Muria
Lecture: TuTh 12:30 – 1:50PM WLH 2209
Section ID: 678031
The development of media systems and policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Debates over dependency and cultural imperialism. The news media and the process of democratization. Development of the regional television industry. Prerequisite: COSF 100.

COSF 142
The Internet in Social and Historical Perspective (4) Kelly Gates
Lecture: TuTh 11:00 – 12:20PM Center 222
Section ID: 678022
This course explores the social, cultural, legal, and political-economic dimensions of the Internet from the 1960s to the present. Students also are introduced to theories and methods developed in communications and related fields for studying online media and their uses. Prerequisite: COSF 100.

COSF 171A
American News Media (4) Daniel Hallin
Lecture: MWF 10:00 – 10:50AM CSB 002
Section ID: 678034
(Same as Soc. 165A.) History, politics, social organization, and ideology of the American news media. SF 171A surveys the development of the news media as an institution, from earliest new newspapers to modern mass news media. SF 171B deals with special topics, including the nature of television news, and with methods of news media research, and requires a research paper. Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

COSF 188
Representations of the Isarelia/Palestinian Conflict (4) Gary Fields
Lecture: TuTh 5:00 – 6:20 Room TBA
Section ID TBA
The conflict between the state of Israel and the group of people known as Palestinians is arguably the most intractable conflict in the world today. This course is a critical engagement with debates about this conflict, and the different representations of these debates. Prerequisite: Upper division standing.

 

COMMUNICATION GRADUATE

COGR 200B
Intro Study / Communication and Culture (4) Lisa Cartwright
Lecture: F 10:00 – 12:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 677994
This course focuses on questions of interpretation and meaning. This course will examine how people use texts to interpret the world and coordinate their activities in social groups. Students will study both theories of interpretation in the conventional sense and theories about the act of interpreting.

COGR 221
The State (4) – Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
Lecture M 2:00 – 4:50 MCC 133
Section ID 685391
What is that “thing” we call the State? What is its relationship to government, citizenship, and power? Will consider different approaches to the study and theorization of the State, from European Enlightenment to post-9/11 reflections on sovereignty, rights, future. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

COGR 225B
Seminar in Science Studies (4) Robert Westman
Lecture: Tu 9:30 – 12:20PM HSS 3027
Section ID: 677995
Study and discussion of a selected topic in the science studies field with an emphasis on the development of research and writing skills. The topic varies from year to year. Prerequisite: enrollment in the Science Studies Program or consent of instructor.

COGR 225C
Colloquium in Science Studies (4) Robert Westman
Lecture: M 4:00 – 6:20PM HSS 3027
Section ID: 677996
A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progress in Science Studies, by graduate students, faculty and visitors. Required for all students in the Science Studies Program. Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Science Studies Program or approval of instructor

COGR 275 A00
Topics in Communication in Pro Seminar (4) Patrick Anderson
Title: Seminar in Performance Theory
Lecture: Th 2:00 – 4:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 677932
In the past several decades, Performance Studies has coalesced into a far-reaching discipline--or, in the words of some, an "anti-discipline"--that brings together critical work from the fields of anthropology, art history, communication, critical gender studies, ethnic studies, film studies, literature, and theater studies. This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the foundations of Performance Studies not by tracing any given genealogy, but rather by exploring many of the themes central to the discipline. We will read the writing of a broad range of scholars, concurrently reviewing the performance, film, and photography of a number of contemporary artists. Students in the course will be required to participate actively in course discussions; compose several short papers framing central questions to several of the weeks' readings; and write a final term paper which may or may not be part of a larger project (for example, a thesis, dissertation, or ongoing art project).

COGR 275 B00
Topics in Communication in Pro Seminar (4) Olga Vasquez
Title:
Lecture: Tu 2:00 – 4:50PM MCC 201
Section ID: 677933
Community-based research is challenging, as it is instructive.  On the one hand, it provides endless possibilities for abstracting insights from the idiosyncrasies of theory in practice, culture in motion, and the complexities of social action.  On the other, it invariably poses challenges for both the academy and the community of study.  The academy questions the meaning of community, the value of the intensity of time and resources it requires, its presumptions of truth, and its methodological choices.  The community questions the intrusion, the sincerity of the researcher, and the intent of the research and the value of its exchange. This seminar explores these complexities with a special focus on the methodological approaches one uses to carve out the field of focus, determine what counts as evidence, reconciles with the quantitative-qualitative conundrum and  identify the role of culture in the construction of meaning, context, and the researcher-researched interaction.  It is expected that students will have the opportunity to develop the methodological chapter of their dissertation as well as take part in a methodology seminar involving national and international scholars on April 26-27, 2010.

 

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