Current Courses - Winter 2012

SPRING 2012

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION

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.

IMPORTANT DATES:

First day of classes – Monday, January 9th, 2012
Automatic wait-lists officially end – Thursday, January 19th, 2012
DEADLINE TO ADD WITHOUT AN ADD CARD – Friday, January 20th, 2012
DEADLINE TO DROP w/o “W” – Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Go to http://tritonlink.ucsd.edu for more important enrollment
and registration information for 2011-2012

For course descriptions please visit the UCSD catalog at:
http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/courses/COMM.html

GENERAL COMMUNICATION

Lower Division

COGN 21
Methods of Media Production (4) – Patricia Montoya
Lecture: Tu/Th 5:00-6:20pm, CENTR 101
Prerequisite: None

Section ID’s:
A01 736450 Tu 9:00-10:50am MCC 133
A02 736451 W 9:00-10:50am MCC 133
A03 736452 W 1:00-2:50pm MCC 133
A04 736453 Th 8:00-9:50am MCC 133
A05 736454 Th 10:00-11:50am MCC 133
A06 736455 Th 12:00-1:50pm MCC 133
A07 736456 F 9:00-10:50am MCC 133
A08 735457 Tu 12:00-1:50pm MCC 201

COGN 22
Methods of Media Production (2) – Patricia Montoya
Prerequisite: COGN 21, recommended to take concurrently
Section ID’s:

A00 733539 Tu 9:00-11:50am MCC 222
B00 733540 Tu 12:00-2:50pm MCC 222
C00 733541 W 9:00-11:50am MCC 222
D00 733542 W 3:00-5:50pm MCC 222
E00 733543 F 9:00-11:50am MCC 222
F00 733544 F 12:00-2:50pm MCC 222

Upper Division

COGN 150 A00
Senior Seminar (4) – Olga Vasquez
Title: The Politics of Culture in the Curriculum
Lecture: W 3:00-5:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 733545
Prerequisite: Senior standing
Description: On very few occasions, students challenge the ideological content of the curriculum; they take it as a given. One may, however, occasionally hear a brave student or two challenge the perspective promoted in the lecture and readings with such comments as “that’s sexist, racist, or xenophobic” but really have little understanding of the logic behind the assemblage of knowledge and practice exercised in the classroom. This seminar examines the politics of culture in the form and content of the curriculum to reveal its logic and subsequently answer why cultural relevance or other forms of discourse are challenged. Students will be required to actively participate in class discussions as informed participants. They will have ample opportunities to analyze as well as create curriculum materials that deviate from the norm as “unofficial,” “vulgar,” and “unAmerican” and share their view with their classmates and with the professor in written form.

COGN 150 B00
Senior Seminar (4) – David Serlin
Title: Museum Studies
Lecture: Tu 5:00-7:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 733546
Prerequisite: Senior standing
Description: This seminar introduces students to historical and theoretical issues raised by looking at museums as cultural institutions and museum exhibitions as systems of cultural production. Students will explore how museum curators use material objects to communicate knowledge and, in the process, examine ideas about collecting, connoisseurship, tourism, national identity, and community memory. In addition to engaging in weekly readings and seminar discussions, students will complete several short writing assignments, submit weekly postings to an on-line discussion group, and collaborate on final group projects for which they will design their own museum exhibits.

COGN 150 C00
Senior Seminar (4) – Boatema Boateng
Title: Grandma’s Fan and MP3s: Issues in Intellectual Property Regulation
Lecture: M 11:00am-1:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 733547
Prerequisite: Senior standing
Description: Should children be sued for downloading music off the Internet? Should quilt patterns be protected by copyright law? Questions like these have become increasingly common as the rise and spread of information technology facilitates access to cultural products and erodes the boundaries of ownership around them. This trend challenges established principles of intellectual property law. Students in this seminar examine these challenges and current debates around them.

COGN 150 D00
Senior Seminar (4) – Michael Hanson
Title: Critical Race Theory
Lecture: M 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 733548
Prerequisite: Senior standing
Description: This seminar focuses on race as a social, phenomenal, historical and political formation. Race is analyzed as a modern principle of social
division, categorization and exclusion, a formation that is both
culturally constituted and fundamentally central in determining
institutional access, material well-being and life outcomes.

The first half of the course examines the historical emergence and
theorization of race. The second half of this course will address various
modes of representation to illuminate the processes whereby race mediates
and is mediated by questions of expressive practice, consumption, cultural
politics and identity. Particular attention will be given to the ways in
which racialized representation participates in the re/production of
inequality while also serving as a means of cultural resistance.

COGN 150 E00
Senior Seminar (4) - Ayhan Aytes
Title: Network Society
Lecture: Th 2:00pm-4:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 739442
Description: This seminar will address cultural, political and economic issues related to recent formations grouped under the term of network society. Networks have always influenced the social fabric of our societies, but digital networks have significantly changed the nature of this relationship. By focusing on various examples ranging from social media, crowdsourcing, file sharing platforms, computer games and virtual environments we will analyze the influence of digital networks on novel forms of social interactions, political activism and community practices. We will explore this media ecology with a focus on its multifaceted consequences including their role in collective production and consumption of cultural content, and in formations of democratic contestations.

COGN 175
Advanced Topics (2) – Daniel Martinico
Section ID: 733549
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in AIP 197

COGN 191B
Honors Seminar (4) – Gary Fields
Lecture: Tu 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 733550
Prerequisite: Admission to the honors program

COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

COCU 124
Documentary History and Theory (4) – Lisa Bloom
Lecture: TuTh 2:00-3:20pm, WLH 2205
Section ID: 733520
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COCU 125
How to Read a Film (4) – Denise McKenna
Lecture: TuTh 9:30-10:50am, CENTR 113
Section ID: 733521
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COCU 131
Cinema of the Cuban Revolution (4) – Ariana Hernandez
Lecture: Tu 5:00-7:50pm, SOLIS 109
Section ID: 733522
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COCU 162
Popular Culture (4) – Chandra Mukerji
Lecture: MWF 10:00-10:50am, CSB 002
Section ID: 733524
Prerequisite: COGN 20

COCU 175
Advanced Topics (4) – Zeinabu Davis & Pierre Desir
Title: The LA Rebellion Film Movement: Black Cinema at UCLA
Lecture: M 5:00-7:50pm, CSB 002
Section ID: 733526
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Description: This course explores the lives and work of a group of critically acclaimed black media artists known as the Los Angeles Rebellion, the first sustained movement in the United States by a collective of minority filmmakers that aimed to re-imagine the media production process so as to represent, reflect on, and enrich the day to day lives of people in their own communities. We will study and discuss the historical, political and social reasons for this group of filmmakers and view many of the films done by these makers and others who were influential to the group. Students will develop research projects culminating in a choice between term papers or multimedia projects that could include oral history interviews, video production or Internet based work.

Both Davis and Desir are members of the LA Rebellion Film Movement and have worked together as producer/director and cinematographer on a number of films that will be screened in the course.

COCU 177
Computer Game Studies (4) – Ayhan Aytes
Lecture: TuTh 5:00-6:20pm, PCYNH 122
Section ID: 733527
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COCU 182
Black Popular Music (4) – Michael Hanson
Lecture: TuTh 3:30-4:50pm, CSB 004
Section ID: 733529
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COMMUNICATION & HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING

COHI112
Interaction with Technology (4) – Alac Morana
Lecture: F 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 733671
Prerequisite: COHI 100

COHI 114
Bilingual Communication (4) – Olga Vásquez
Lecture: TuTh 3:30-4:50pm, WLH 2205
Section ID: 733672
Prerequisite: COHI 100

COHI 117
Language, Thought, & the Media (4) – Elena Collavin
Lecture: TuTh 12:30-1:50pm, SEQUO 147
Section ID: 733673
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COHI 130
Cross-cultural Communication (4) – Deborah Wilson
Lecture: MWF 1:00-1:50pm, WLH 2209
Section ID: 733674
Prerequisite: COHI 100

COHI 175 A00
Advanced Topics (4) – Michele Goldwasser
Title: Language, Communication and Gender
Lecture: MW 5:00-6:20pm, CENTR 109
Section ID: 733675
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing
Description: This course examines the social construction of gender through language and media. We will ask questions such as: Do men and women talk differently? How does language negotiate power relationships, social roles, and personal identities? How does the media construct a sense of community while transforming gender into a commodity? We will address these questions by analyzing everyday conversations, classroom discussions, courtroom discourse, online communities, and media advertisements.

COHI 175 B00
Advanced Topics (4) – Jeffrey Minson
Title: Rhetorical communication: incivility, ethics and emotion in politics and culture
Lecture: TuTh 5:00-6:20pm, PCYNH 121
Section ID: 733676
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing
Description: How might the ‘rhetorical’ (persuasive) means of communicating ethical concerns affect how we ethically think, feel, act? Students are introduced to the historical ‘arts’ of rhetoric, verbal and visual, their cultural influences, including shaping of un/ethical dispositions, also how rhetoric became marginalized. Its continuing relevance is demonstrated in case studies about interfaces of media, rhetoric, affect, and ethics at the uncivil edges of modern American democracy.

COMMUNICATION MEDIA METHODS

COMT 100
Non-linear Digital Editing (4) – Patricia Montoya
Lecture: F 12:00-2:50pm, MCC 221
Section ID: 733677
Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22

COMT 104
Studio/TV (6) – Pierre Desir
Lecture: M 10:00am-12:50pm, MCC 140
Prerequisite:
Section ID’s: COGN 21 and COGN 22

A01 733679 Tu 10:00-am-12:50pm MCC 140
A02 733680 Tu 3:00-5:50pm MCC 140

COMT 109
Digital Media Pedagogy (4) – Brian Goldfarb
Lecture: TuTh 9:30-10:50am, CENTR 218
Section ID: 733681
Prerequisite: Communication majors only
Additional information: This course develops students' critical understanding of the broad impact of digital and network technology on education and provides first-hand experience engaging with students using digital media in school settings. Participants will consider the challenges and benefits of educational applications of communication technology through discussion of readings and experiences in public school classrooms. At least four hours/week of fieldwork at a school site will be required outside of class meeting time.

COMT 110
News Media Workshop (4) – Andrew Kleske
Lecture: MW 5:00-6:20pm, HSS 1315
Section ID: 733682
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COMT 111A
Communicating and Computers (4) – Bekkah Walker
Lecture: TuTh 3:30-4:50pm, HSS 1315
Section ID: 733683
Prerequisite: COHI 100, communication major

COMT 112
Ethnographic Methods/Media Research (4) – Ariana Hernandez
Lecture: W 5:00-7:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 733684
Prerequisite: COSF 100 or COCU 100

COMT 115 A00
Media & Design of Social Learning Contexts (6) – Ivan Rosero
Lecture: MW 1:30-2:50pm, CRB 305
Prerequisite: COHI 100 or HDP 1
Section IDs:

A01 733686 TuTh 3:30-5:20pm TBA
A02 733687 MW 4:00-6:00pm TBA

COMT 115 B00
Media & Design of Social Learning Contexts (6) – Deborah Wilson
Lecture: TuTh 1:30-2:50pm, CRB 305
Prerequisite: COHI 100 or HDP 1

Section IDs:

B01 733689 MW 3:30-5:30pm TBA
B02 733690 TuTh 3:30-5:30pm TBA

COMT 116
Practicum in Child Development (6) – Caroline Collins
Lecture: TuTh 9:30-10:50am, SEQUO 147
Prerequisite: COHI 100, HDP 1, or Psych 101

Section IDs:

A01 733692 MW 9:00-10:30am TBA
A02 733693 MW 10:30am-12:00pm TBA
A03 733694 MW 4:00-5:30pm TBA
A04 733695 TuTh 3:00-4:30pm TBA
A05 733696 Tu 4:30-6:30pm TBA
A06 733657 W 3:00-4:30pm TBA
A07 733698 W 9:30-11:00am TBA

COMT 120
Documentary Sketchbook (4) – Daniel Martinico
Lecture: M 3:00-5:50pm, MCC 221
Section ID: 733699
Prerequisite: COGN 21 and COGN 22

COMT 175 A00
Topics in Communication, Media Methods (4) – Carlos Martell
Title: Practicum in Community based Communication
Lecture: MW 2:00 – 3:20 (SEE DESCRIPTION BELOW!)
Section ID 739422
Prerequisite: Upper division standing

IMPORTANT INFORMATION _ This course will require a lab meeting on MW 3:30 – 5:00 SO PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE ACCORDINGLY. THE FULL TIME COMMITMENT FOR THIS CLASS WILL BE MW 2:00 – 5:00.

This course will be a practicum-style, largely hands-on course that investigates the practical and theoretical foundations of creating a new form of University-Community communicative system involving UCSD and two communities in Southeast and South San Diego. Students will engage with faculty and students from Communication and Visual Arts to design and put into action a variety of computer-based and telecommunications design activities for area youth. They will both engage in the activities with the youth and participate in a broader effort to use an advanced digital video display combined with state of the art conferencing facilities that can link these three locales in San Diego in a new variety of community to community communication.

Class meets twice weekly, Monday and Wednesday from 2-5 at one of the Community facilities. Class will consist of two parts each time: discussion and examination of key readings relevant to the project around which the course is organized followed by collaborative work with local youth on computer-based design work for which no special prior knowledge is required. Student work will be evaluated in terms of week participation in the activity at the site and a final project, to be conducted in small groups with the local youth.

The course will meet at the community site. Arrangements for transportation made as part of admission to class. Prerequisites: Upper division standing.

COMMUNICATION AS SOCIAL FORCE

COSF 100
Introduction to Communication as Social Force (4) – John McMurria
Lecture: TuTh 12:30-1:50pm, PRICE THTRE
Prerequisite: COGN 20

Section IDs:

A01 733701 M 9:00-9:50am YORK 300A
A02 733702 M 10:00-10:50am YORK 300A
A03 733703 M 11:00-11:50am YORK 300A
A04 733704 Tu 9:00-9:50am CENTR 201
A05 733705 Tu 3:00-3:50pm CENTR 201
A06 733706 W 3:00-3:50pm HSS 2152
A07 733707 W 4:00-4:50pm HSS 2152
A08 733708 W 5:00-5:50pm HSS 2152
A09 733709 Th 8:00-8:50am TBA
A10 733710 Th 3:00-3:50pm CENTR 205
A11733711 F 8:00-8:50am WLH 2110
A12 733712 F 9:00-9:50am WLH 2110

COSF 124
Black Women, Feminism & Media (4) – Boatema Boateng
Lecture: TuTh 11:00-12:20pm, PCYNH 120
Section ID: 733713
Prerequisite: COSF 100

COSF 126
The Information Age: Fact & Fiction (4) – Jericho Burg
Lecture: MWF 11:00-11:50am, CENTR 222
Section ID: 733714
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COSF 175 B00
Advanced Topics (4) – Antonieta Mercado
Title: The Public Relations Industry
Lecture: MW 6:30-7:50pm, CENTR 113
Section ID: 733717
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Description: This course offers a critical and historical perspective on the public relations industry and the dependency of news media outlets of the PR world as sources of information. The course will include a critical examination of persuasion techniques used by public relations practitioners, the political economy of Public Relations for the news industry and its impact in discourses of citizenship, sustainability, diversity, and consumption.

COSF 175 C00
Advanced Topics (4) – Nancy Lee
Title: Health Communication: Consumerism And Reform In American Healthcare
Lecture: TuTh 11:00-12:20pm, CSB 004
Section ID: 733718
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Description: This course examines the ramifications of patient consumerism in healthcare from a health communication perspective. We survey health communication as a field of study, its major issues and concepts, and assess how the conceptual shift to seeing the patient as a consumer has influenced the nature of health communication research and practice. We explore the changing nature of the doctor-patient relationship and the impact of consumerism on the distribution and delivery of healthcare in the US. A key focus of this course is the 2010 passage of federal health reform legislation, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One aim is to contextualize this historic development within the expanding influence of consumerism in contemporary health and medical discourses. Given that 2012 is an election year, we will also focus on how healthcare discourses are mobilized to bolster political positions and influence policymaking.

COSF 175 D00
Advanced Topics (4) – Heidi Feldman
Title: Music and Social Movements in Latin America
Lecture: TuTh 8:00-9:20am, WLH 2111
Section ID: 736355
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Description: In this class, we will examine how music shapes both social movements and how they are remembered. Latin America is a particularly rich terrain in which to study the relationship between music and social movements, especially during the explosive period of the 1950s-70s, which will be the primary (but not exclusive) focus in this class. We will look closely at the role played by music in selected social movements of Latin America, including both "classic" social movements (revolution, dictatorship, and political protest) and "new" social movements (identity). Using selected case studies, we will examine how music collaborates as an agent of resistance or domination during a social movement and how it later acts as a powerfully enduring site of collective memory in documentary films and recorded tributes. Examples may be drawn from Chile, Cuba, Haiti, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. While no specialized knowledge of music is required, we will use both musical and written sources as texts in addition to analyzing the use of music in films.

COSF 181
Political Economy of International Communication (4) – Jericho Burg
Lecture: TuTh 9:30-10:50am, CENTR 222
Section ID: 733719
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COSF 186
The Film Industry (4) – Isaac Artenstein
Lecture: M 5:00-7:50pm, CENTR 216
Section ID: 733720
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing

COMMUNICATION GRADUATE

COGR 200A
Introduction to Communication as Social Force (4) – John McMurria
Time/location: F 11:00am-1:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 733602
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 200B
Introduction to Communication & Culture (4) – Lisa Cartwright
Time/location: M 9:00-11:50am, MCC 201
Section ID: 733603
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 201B
Ethnography Methods/Communication Research (4) – Elana Zilberg
Time/location: Th 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 733604
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 201L
Qualitative Analysis/Information Systems (4) – Brian Goldfarb
Time/location: Tu 2:00-4:50pm MCC 201
Section ID: 733605
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 225C
Colloquium in Science Studies (4) – Martha Lampland
Time/location: M 4:00-6:50pm, HSS 3027
Section ID: 733606
Prerequisite: Enrollment in Science Studies program or consent of instructor

COGR 275
Topics in Communication (4) – Nitin Govil
Title: Film Studies
Time/location: M 12:00-2:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 736458
Description: The future of film studies has been cast in terms of medium and disciplinarity so that both terms - "film" and "study" - are up for grabs (in a sense, they always have been). This seminar serves as an entry point into film studies using contemporary debates. After an orientation in the history of the field and a sense of contemporary challenges, we will turn to texts that offer a reconfiguration of traditional approaches to history, theory, and methodology in film studies. These texts will include Jackie Stacey's The Cinematic Life of the Gene, Alison Griffiths' Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn of the Century Visual Culture, Anne Friedberg's The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft, Homay King's Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema and the Enigmatic Signifier, Ranjani Mazumdar's Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City, D.N. Rodowick's The Virtual Life of Film, and Jacqueline Stewart's Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity.

COGR 275
Topics in Communication (4) – Stefan Tanaka
Title: Mobility, History, Stasis
Time/location: Th 9:00-11:50am, MCC 201
Section ID: 736459
Description: This course seeks to invert the normal relation between place and process/movement in historical discourse. Instead of examining movement in and among fixed places, usually nation-states, we will look at movement as the basic condition from which place emerges. In this sense, history becomes a media that helps slow down processes and gives certainty to constantly shifting relations.

COGR 280
Advanced Workshop in Communication Media (4) – Zeinabu Davis
Time/location: 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 140
Section ID: 733610
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

PAST COURSES

Summer 2010.1 - 2010.2