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SPRING 2013

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
 - SPRING 2013 COURSE LISTING
 - 2/7/13

CHECK THE UCSD CATALOG FOR COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

IMPORTANT:

LOOK CAREFULLY AT WHAT THE NEW COURSE NUMBER USED TO BE BECAUSE STUDENTS WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THE SAME COURSE TWICE.

FOR EXAMPLE; IF YOU PREVIOUSLY TOOK COSF 140C “Comparative Media Systems: Latin America and the Caribbean”
 YOU WILL NOT GET CREDIT FOR COMM 104G.

EXCEPTION FOR THE 175 COURSES: YOU CAN TAKE UP TO THREE 175 COURSES. THE NEW 175 NUMBERS ARE COMM 132 (PREVIOUSLY COSF 175), COMM 146 (PREVIOUSLY COCU 175) AND COMM 172 (PREVIOUSLY COHI 175).

FOR EXAMPLE: IF YOU’VE ALREADY TAKEN A COCU 175 AND A COSF 175 YOU CAN TAKE A COMM 132 OR 146 OR 172.

Go to http://tritonlink.ucsd.edu for more important enrollment 
and registration information for 2012 - 2013

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

For course descriptions in previous UCSD catalogs, visit:
http://blink.ucsd.edu/instructors/resources/catalog.html

Core Courses

COMM 10 (previously COGN 20)
Introduction to Communication (4) – Zeinabu Davis
Lecture MWF 2:00 – 2:50 Centr 119

Students register by section

Prerequisite: None
  • A01 773127 M 9:00 – 9:50a HSS 2152
  • A02 773128 M 3:00 – 3:50p HSS 2152
  • A03 773129 W 1:00 – 1:50p Center 207 

  • A04 773131 W 3:00 – 3:50p Center 207 

  • A05 773132 F 9:00 – 9:50a Center 218 

  • A06 773133 F 1:00 – 1:50p Center 218
COMM 100B (previously COCU 100)
Interpretive Strategies (4) – Lisa Cartwright
Lecture TuTh 11:00 – 12:20p TBD

Students register by section
Prerequisite: COMM 10
  • A01 773135 M 9:00 – 9:50a Centr 218 

  • A02 773136 M 10:00 – 10:50a Centr 218 

  • A03 773137 M 2:00 – 2:50p HSS 2152 

  • A04 773138 Tu 8:00 – 8:50a HSS 2152 

  • A05 773139 Tu 9:00 – 9:50a APM 2301
  • A06 773140 W 2:00 – 2:50p WLH 2110 

  • A07 773141 W 3:00 – 3:50p WLH 2110 
 

  • A08 773142 Th 8:00 – 8:50a HSS 2152 

  • A09 773143 Th 9:00 – 9:50a HSS 2152 

  • A10 773144 Th 10:00 – 10:50a  
HSS 2152
  • A11 773145 F 9:00 – 9:50a HSS 2321 

  • A12 773146 F 10:00 – 10:50a HSS 2321

Junior Seminars

Prerequisites: Junior Standing and MUST HAVE TAKEN COMM 10 and AT LEAST 2 of the COMM 100’s or COGN 20 and 2 of the COSF, COCU, COHI 100

COMM 190 (previously COGN 150) 

Junior Seminar in Communication (4) – Katrina Petersen

Title: Representing Crises and Disasters
Lecture W 1:00 – 3:50p MCC 133

Section ID 773314
Description: How are disasters and crisis events visually and discursively represented? How do these representations shape everyday practices and
public concerns? This seminar examines these practices of representation – such as disaster mapping technologies, photography in crisis zones, and narratives of communities in duress -- and explores what they reveal about community, society, risk, and nature. Through readings, real world examples, and discussion topics this course will address historical and contemporary forms of disaster representation and investigate how they construct our understanding a given disaster. Students will learn how to document these representational practices, analyze their political implications, and employ the theories from the course to construct their own research projects.

COMM 190 (previously COGN 150) 

Junior Seminar in Communication (4) – Pawan Singh
Title: Gender and Sexuality in Media
Lecture Tu 12:30 – 3:20 MCC 133
Section ID: 773315
Description: This course will consider issues of gender and sexuality across a range of media texts including paintings, television, cinema and the Internet. Students will analyze how these texts encompass and produce normative ways of performing gender and sexuality from a historical, political and cultural perspective within a global framework. Readings will be drawn from areas of critical gender studies, critical theory, queer theory, media studies and celebrity studies.


COMM 190 (previously COGN 150)
  
Junior Seminar in Communication (4) – Stephanie Martin
Title: Media and Democracy: The Relationship Between Politicians, Citizens, and the Press

Lecture M 12:00 – 2:50p MCC 201

Section ID: 773316
Description: TBA

COMM 190 (previously COGN 150)

Junior Seminar in Communication (4) – Reece Peck
Title: Rightwing Politics and the Media
Lecture F 9:00 – 11:50a MCC 201

Section ID: 773317
Description: Political observers from both the left and the right have argued that the modern conservative movement in America is first and foremost a media one.  This course examines the role that communication technologies and the media have played in the historic ascendancy of the political right from the postwar period to the Bush era.  This course examines the successful communication strategies that were executed by conservative media activists such as Richard Viguerie in the 1960s.  It addresses the launch of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the explosion of conservative think tanks in the 1970s and 1980s. It examines the career of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio revolution of the 1990s.  Moving into the 2000s, the course covers the rise and success of the Fox News Channel.  This course concludes by considering internet-based forms of conservative media such as the Drudge Report and Blaze TV (formerly Glenn Beck TV) and will address the ways in which conservative activists, in the contemporary moment, are using social and digital media to advance the goals of the movement.         
 
COMM 190 (previously COGN 150)

Junior Seminar in Communication (4) – Valerie Hartouni

Title: Eve of Destruction: The 1960s and the Crisis of Culture
W 9:00 – 11:50 MCC 139

Section ID 773318 

Description: 

The 1960's were a particularly turbulent decade in American life whose meaning and legacycontinue to be debated. During this now thoroughly mythologized period, contesting cultural and political claims, meanings, and practices collided, at times violently, in streets, courts, universities, and legislatures across the land. And whether one sees these struggles as moments of opportunity and democratic possibility or as the moral and political unraveling of a once great Republic, most will agree that the era contributed to reshaping (fundamentally, for better or worse) the understandings, expectations, and shared practices that organize individual and collective life. This course explores critical events and trends of the decade and their lasting impact. Through the use of film, television, autobiography, literature, historical narrative, and music we will consider the war in Viet Nam and its opposition, the Civil Rights movement, Student Revolt and the Free-Speech Movement, and popular cultures and the growth of countercultures.

 

Intermediate Electives

PREREQUISITE: COMM 10 (OR COGN 20)
COMM 101 (previously COGN 21/22)
Introduction to Audio-Visual Media Practices (4)- Zeinabu Davis
Lecture TuTh 9:30-10:50a Peter 104
  • A01 773148 M 12:00-2:50p MCC 222
  • A02 773149 Tu 9:30a-12:20p MCC 222
  • A03 773150 W 9:00-11:50a MCC 222
  • A04 773151 W 2:00-4:50p MCC 222
Students register by section 
Prerequisite: COMM 10
COMM 101D (previously COMT 100)
Media Production Lab: Non-linear Digital Editing (4) - Daniel Martinico
Lecture M 3:00 – 5:50p MCC 221

Section ID 773154

Prerequisites: COMM 101 (previously COGN 21 and 22)
 
COMM 101M (Previously COMT111A)
Communication & Computers (4) - Bekkah Walker
Lecture: Tu Th 2:00-3:20, Center 207
Section ID: 773155
Prerequisites: COMM 101 (previously COGN 21 and 22)
 
COMM 102C 
Methods of Media Production Practicum: Media & Design/Social Learning Contexts (6)- Deborah Downing-Wilson
Lecture MW 1:30-2:50 TBA
  • A01 773157 TuTh 3:30- 5:20p TBA
  • A02 773158 MW 4:00-5:50p TBA
COMM 102D
Methods of Media Production Practicum: Practicum in Child Development (6)- Collins, Caroline Imani
Lecture TuTh 9:30a-12:20p MCC 201
  • A01 773161 MW 3:30-5:30p TBA
  • A02 773162 W 2:30-6:30p TBA
  • A03 773163 TuTh 2:30-6:30p TBA
COMM 103E (COSF 130)
History of Electronic Meida (4) – John McMurria
Lecture TuTh 2:00 – 3:20p CSB 002 

Section ID: 773168

COMM 103F (previously COCU 125)

How to Read a Film (4) – Michele Goldwasser

Lecture TuTh 3:30 – 4:50p Centr 115

Section ID: 773169

Description: TBA

COMM 111P (previously COCU 160)

Communication & Cultural Production: Performance & Cultural Studies (4)- Cappelli, Maria 
Lecture MWF 12:00-12:50pm WLH 2204
Section ID:778585
 
COMM 114F (previously COSF 139)

Communication & Social Institutions: Law, Communication & Freedom of Speech (4) –Robert Horwitz

Lecture TuTh 9:30 – 10:50a Center 115
Section ID 773172

COMM 114N
Communication & Social Institutions: Communication & the Law: The Body in Law (4) – Valerie Hartouni 

Lecture Tu Th 11a-12:20pm PCYNH 121
Section ID 779107

Advanced Electives

Prerequisites: MUST HAVE TAKEN COMM 10 and AT LEAST 2 of the COMM 100’s or COGN 20 and 2 of the COSF, COCU, COHI 100’s
 
COMM 120I (previously COMT 122) 

Advanced Media Prouction: Social Issues in Media Production (4)- Patricia Montoya
Lecture F 10:00a – 12:50p MCC 221

Section ID 778263


COMM 126 (previously COHI 123) 

Children & Media (4)- Stefan Tanaka
Lecture MW 6:30 – 7:50p Center 216

Section ID 773173

 
COMM 128 (previously COHI 115) 

Education & Golbal Citizenship (4) – Olga Vasquez 

Lecture W 5:00 – 7:50p WLH 2204
Section ID 773174
 
COMM 146 (previously COCU 175)

Advanced Studies in Cultural Production (4) – Michael Cole

Title: The Department of Communication’s 30th Anniversary - Re-membering Communication
 Lecture
M 9:00 – 11:50 MCC 201

Section ID: 773175
Be a part of the student team that will help create a memorable celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Department of Communication!
This class consists of a yearlong integrative seminar designed to provide a model of how to combine theory and practice in the study of communication. The course has a practical goal: To create an outstanding public event commemorating the formation of Communication as a Department.
All of a Communication student's prior knowledge will come into play in the process of realizing this goal. During each of the three quarters of the 2012-2013 academic year the class will meet once a week. That meeting will be divided between scholarly examination of such topics as processes of documentation, the use of archives, processes of inter-generational change, and the very practical problems of organizing the Commemoration.
Students with foci ranging across the perspectives on Communication are welcome to apply for the class. During the course of the first quarter, the class will be divided into teams to organize work on the many different, specialized tasks. All students will be involved in documenting and creating the final event.
It is strongly urged and expected that students will commit to sign up for all three quarters of the course (Fall 2012, Winter 2013, and Spring 2013), since the capstone event occurs in May and preparations start in September.
As we move from theory to practice in organizing this event, having team members who deeply understand the project will be essential.
In addition to time spent in-class during which the meeting will end with the development of a list of Priority Tasks of the Week, the separate teams will meet together at mutually agreed upon times to ensure fulfillment of those priorities.
The class is planned for 9:00 am to 12:00 pm each Monday morning that will be the core organizing time for the remainder of the week's work. Please do not enroll in the course unless you have that period of time entirely free.
Once the course breaks into teams, additional meeting times will be organized according to the overall needs of the project.
To participate in this project apply to enroll in

Your application must be received by May 15th, 2012. If selected to participate, you will then be given instructions on how to enroll in the Fall Quarter COMM 146 listed under Professor Mike Cole.

COMM 151 (previously COSF 126)
The Info Age: Fact & Fiction (4) – Jericho Burg

LectureTuTh 3:30 – 4:50p WLH 2204
Section ID 773176
 
COMM 153 (previously COCU 181)
Architecture as Communication (4)- Chandra Mukerji
Lecture 
TuTh 9:30 – 10:50a Center 205
Section ID 773177
 
COMM 158 
Representations of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (4)- Gary Fields

Lecture TuTh 5:00 – 6:20p WLH 2208
Section ID 773179
 
COMM 168 (COHI 114) 
Bilingual Communication (4)-Olga Vasquez

Lecture TuTh 3:30 – 4:50p Peter 103
Section ID 773178

COMM 172 (previously COHI 175)
Rhetorical communication in politics and culture(4)-Jeffrey Minson

Lecture TuTh 6:30 – 7:50p CSB 004
Section ID 773180
Description: 
Students are introduced to the historical arts of rhetoric, visual as well as verbal. We look at its extraordinarily wide cultural influences, including shaping of un/ethical personas to this day, despite its reduced 
scope and reputation. Case studies investigate interfaces of media, rhetoric, affect, and ethics, especially ethical aspects of civility -- in drama and the movies, lawyering, and at the uncivil edges of modern American democratic politics.
 
COMM 180 (previously COHI 137)
Communication and the City: Space, Power and Poetics (4)-Elana Zilberg

Lecture TuTh 12:30 – 1:50p MCC 201
Section ID 779118
Description: 

This course will introduce you to how we communicate about and through cities. The course aims to give you a foundation in urban studies by introducing you to key concepts in what might be termed "spatial theory". We will develop our understanding of the complex and multi-layered relationship between communication and urban space through several empirical case studies of cities, both in our immediate orbit and around the world. Finally, students will conduct field studies in the City of San Diego or surrounding cities in order to understand how theory should, ideally, emerge from grounded studies, and how theory can heighten our attention to, and deepen our experience and understanding of urban life.

Honors

Special Studies

COMM 198 and 199 (previously COGN 198, COGN 199)
Independent or Independent Group Study (4)
Students interested in doing an Independent or Group study with a particular Communication professor must get the Special Studies form either on line or from the Communication advising office and speak with one of the undergraduate advisors.

Graduate

COGR 200A
Intro Study/Communication as a Social Force (4)- John McMurria
Lecture: F 11:00a-1:50p MCC 133
Section ID: 773230
 
COGR 201D
Historical Methods/Communication Research (4) - David Serlin
Lecture: T 2:00-4:50p MCC 201
Section ID: 782598
 
COGR 225C 

Colloquium in Science Studies (4) Robert Westman 

Lecture: M 4:00-6:50PM HSS 3027

Section ID: 773232

COGR 225D
Intro to Science Studies: Part II (4) - Robert Westman/Charles Thorpe
Lecture: Tu 9:30a-12:20p HSS 3027

Section ID: 764226

COGR 262
B00
 Topics in Communication (4) - Gary Fileds
Title: Geographies of Difference, Exclusion and Conflict
Lecture: F 2:00-4:50p MCC 201
Section ID: 787150
Description: This seminar focuses on how differences between groups of people, and the patterns of power, exclusion and conflict resulting from such differences, become embedded in geographical landscapes.  After an initial engagement with the concepts of boundaries and geographical space, the course examines placed-based sites of difference, power, and conflict beginning with the map, and moving through such spatial environments as the body, the city, the nation, the landscape, the reservation, culminating in borderland conflict here in our own backyard.   At the same time, the course overlays these sites onto social categories of nationality, race, religion, gender, immigrants, and the poor, in examining how power, exclusion and conflict become part of the landscape.  What the course seeks to explore is how the socio-economic, political, and cultural environment – and the power relations inherent in these environments -- are linked to morphologies of space and place.    
Pedagogically, this course focuses on different methods for conducting research.   In this sense, the seminar will require participants to read and critique texts not only for content, but also for the ways in which authors make arguments, that is, how they make claims, collect evidence, and cast their work as research.  As a doctoral seminar, this course is intended to be an historically grounded, theoretically rigorous -- and best of all -- topically relevant engagement with the forces shaping the contemporary world.  
 
COGR 275
B00
 Topics in Communication (4) - Lisa Cartwright & Liz Losh
Title: Feminist Dialogues on Technology
Lecture: W 9:00-11:50a MCC 201

Section ID: 77235
Description:
This course on feminism and technology explores contemporary technoculture, embodiment, agency, mediation and difference.  It provides an overview of major feminist technology theory and practice through close consideration of posthumanism, cyborg culture, bioinformatics, reproductive technovisions, disability, gendered and racialized digital labor, and feminist game design and critical sci-art.  Peer to peer teaching and learning, institutional intersectionality, and critical mediation and practice are explored reflexively through projects that feature opportunities for collaborative writing, interpretation, design, media production, and other forms of distributed activity.  
http://thiscourse.com/ucsd/cogr275/sp13/