Fall 2008

Updated : June 19, 2008

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ATTENDANCE 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.

Senior Seminar (COGN 150) is not available to non-seniors.
If you enroll in COGN 150 and are not a senior you may be dropped.

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LOWER DIVISION

UPPER DIVISION

• COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
• COMMUNICATION GENERAL
• MEDIA METHODS
• COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING
• SOCIAL FORCE

GRADUATE COURSES

LOWER DIVISION

COGN 20
Introduction to Communication (4) Nitin Govil
Section ID’s assigned by section
Lecture MWF 10:00 – 10:50 Price Theater

A01            628073            Mon 8:00 – 8:50 Centr 207
A02            628074            Mon 9:00 – 9:50 Centr 207
A03            628075            Mon 12:00 – 12:50 Centr 217B
A04            628076            Mon 4:00 – 4:50 Centr 217B
A05            628077            Weds 2:00 – 2:50 Centr 203
A06            628078            Weds 3:00 – 3:50 Centr 203
A07            628079            Weds 6:00 – 6:50 Centr 218
A08            628080            Fri 8:00 – 8:50 Centr 218
A19            628081            Fri 9:00 – 9:50 Centr 218
A10            628082            Fri 11:00 – 11:50 WLH 2208
A11            628083            Fri 3:00 – 3:50 WLH 2208
A12            628084            Fri 1:00 – 1:50 W:H 2208

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.

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UPPER DIVISION

COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

COCU 126
African Cinema (4) Zeinabu Davis
Lecture TuTh 11:00 – 12:20 PCYNH 121
Section ID: 628067
Initiate a higher level of film literacy, sharpening, generating thoughtful criticism as it relates to world cinema, to foster a collaborative sense of a film/media community at UCSD where barriers between the filmmaker and audience are broken down and dialogue occurs. Prerequisite: COCO 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 141A
Media and Technology: Global Nature, Global Culture (4) Lisa Cartwright
Lecture: MWF 10:00 – 10:50 MCC 201
Section ID: 634489
Considers globalization’s impact on concepts of nature in and through media texts, information systems, circulation of consumer goods and services, the emergence of global brands, science, health initiatives, environmental media activism, technology transfer in the twentieth and early twenty first centuries. Prerequisite: COSF 100 or COCU 100 of COHI 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 141 C
Media and Technology: Gender and Biomedicine (4) Lisa Cartwright
Lecture: MWF 11:00 – 11:50 MCC 201
Section ID: 634490
Cultural and historical ways of defining and understanding disability relative to communication and assistive technologies, including the impact of digital technologies and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Use of audiovisual texts and writings from fields including science and technology studies, and cultural studies. Prerequisite: COSF 100 or COCU 100 of COHI 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 148
Communication and Environment (4) Jericho Burg
Lecture MWF 9:00 – 9:50 Centr 222
Section ID: 628068
Survey of the communication practices found in environment controversies. The sociological aspects of environmental issues will provide background for the investigation of environmental disputes in particular contested areas, such as scientific institutions, communities, work places, governments, popular culture, and the media. Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 163
Popular Culture and Contemporary Life (4) Michele Goldwasser
Lecture TuTh 5:00 – 6:20 Centr 216
Section ID: 628069
Treats products of modern culture industries, and theories of social political importance. Study cultural forms: including music, television, fashion, food, landscapes. How popular culture is consumed, what it means to audiences, gender and racial/ethic differences among producers and consumers. Prerequisites: Upper division standing or consent of instructor.  Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor

COCU 172
The Cultural Politics of Sport (4) – Michael Hanson
Lecture MWF 11:00 – 11:50 Peter 104
Section ID 635078
Examine sport as play, performance, competition, an arena where there are politics, culture, power, 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.  Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 175 A00
Advanced Topics in Communication Culture (4) David Serlin
Title: American Television in the 1970s
Lecture TuTh 2:00 – 3:20 U413 2
Section ID: 628070
From "The Mod Squad" to "Charlie's Angels" to "Starsky and Hutch," American television series of the 1970s exert cultural responses that typically range from the nostalgic to the ironic. But why, exactly, do these programs continue to hold such fascination almost forty years later? This course will explore the tumultuous decade of the 1970s and its complex political and cultural crises through the lens of mainstream network television programming, focusing on controversial, hilarious, shocking, and embarrassing moments from some of the decade's most important (and ridiculous) sitcoms, dramas, variety shows, and news features.  Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 175 B00
Advanced Topics in Communication Culture (4) Naomi Young
Title: Culture, Communicationand Worldview
Lecture TuTh 11:00 – 12:20 WLH 2209
Section ID: 628071
This course will allow students to examine cultural and intercultural constructs, and their impact on interpersonal, impersonal and mass communication.  Specifically, this course will examine such topics as: race, ethnicity, religion, globalization and the impact on differing worldviews. From this course the student will gain an understanding on the origins of cultural communication styles, and the effect this has on understanding what constitutes competent intercultural communication.  Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor.

COCU 182
Black Popular Music (4) – Michael Hanson
Lecture MWF 4:00 – 4:50 Centr 113
Section ID 635079
Examine Black Popular Music as social practice, cultural product, historically.  African American musical expressions, discussions of race and intercultural exchange, power, social change, sound and identity, music industry, black performance.  Music making, hearing, performance are examined.  Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor.

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COMMUNICATION GENERAL

COGN 150 A00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Olga Kushinskaya
Title: Science and the Public
Lecture M 12:00 – 2:50 MCC 133
Section ID: 628085

Some of the most compelling public issues of the past twenty years have been raised by findings from science: the hole in the ozone layer, the dangers of climate warming, the accelerating loss of biodiversity, and so forth. At the same time, public perception of what science can and should do is increasingly critical. The course examines scientific and social developments of the last decades of the 20th century that have shaken some of the key modern beliefs, including beliefs about the role of science in the modern society. We will also focus on the extent to which the debates and discourses around science and technology shape notions of truth, knowledge, power and subjectivity, and the self.

Readings and class discussions will examine the following themes: science and postmodern identity; science, reproductive technologies, and sexuality; genetic screening and genome mapping projects; brain imaging; global warming and environmental problems; technological disasters; science in the courtroom; and popular images of science and scientists.

COGN 150 B00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Zara Mirmalek
Title: Technoscience and Society
Lecture W 3:00 – 5:50 MCC 133
Section ID: 628086
In this seminar, we will consider the relationship between social values
and scientific knowledge production through the use of particular
technologies, such as remotely operated space vehicles on Mars and media
representations of the politics of nuclear programs.  We will begin with a
novel, The Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, as a way of situating the
themes that will be encountered in scholarly investigations of the
significance of intersecting  technology, science, and society.  Prerequisite: Communication majors, Senior standing or consent of instructor.

COGN 150 D00
Required Senior Seminar (4) – Gary Fields
Title: Globalism, Localism and Representations of Conflict
Lecture Tue 5:00 – 7:50 MCC 201
Section ID 636598
This course examines the interplay of globalization as an economic and cultural phenomenon, and the proliferation of conflict throughout the world.  In exploring this interplay, this course poses the following questions:  What is the relationship of globalization as a set of economic practices, and the worldwide intensification of attachments to locality and nationality?  How can we understand the paradox of global commodity flows, the strengthening of controls by governments over immigration and the movement of certain people across borders, and the relative ease of human trafficking?  In what ways is globalization redefining notions of citizenship, belonging, and exclusion?  In what ways is globalization influencing and changing the practices of war and empire?  In addressing such issues, this course explores the consequences and contradictions emerging from the collision of globalism and nationalism, boundaries and borderlessness.  At the same time, this course has pedagogical function.  Its aim is to teach students how to read critically and analyze the logic of arguments.  It is intended to be a rigorous, and best of all, interesting engagement with the forces shaping the contemporary world. Prerequisites: Communication majors, Senior standing or consent of instructor.

COGN 175
Advanced Topics in General Communications (4) Dan Martinico
Lecture TBA
Section ID: 628087

COGN 191A
Honors Seminar (4) – Elana Zilberg
Lecture W 2:00 – 4:50 SSRB 305
Section ID 628139
Only students accepted into the Communication Honors Program will be allowed to register for this course.

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MEDIA METHODS

COMT 100
Non-Linear Digital Editing (4) Dan Martinico
Lecture M 3:00 – 5:50 MCC 221
Section ID: 628417
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: Communication majors, COGN 21 and COGN 22 or consent of instructor

COMT 111A
Communicating and Computers (4) Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Lecture W 3:00 – 5:50 MCC 246
Section ID: 628431
This course introduces students to computers as media of communication.  Each quarter students participate in a variety of networking activities designed to show the interactive potential of the medium.  Field work designed to teach basic methods is combined with readings designed to build a deeper theoretical understanding of computer-based communication.  Course can be taken to meet COHI major requirement.
Prerequisites: COHI 100 and communication major or consent of instructor

COMT 115
Media and Design in Social Learning Contexts (4) Beth Ferholt
Lecture MW 3:00 – 4:20 APM 2301
Section Ids assigned by Lab

A01            628419            MW 1:00 – 2:50
A02            628420            TuTh 4:00 – 5:50

(Same as HDP 115). A combined lecture/lab course cross listed in Communication and Human Development Students attend lecture, write fieldnotes, andn 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 (4) Anjelica Marcello
Lecture TuTh 9:30 – 10:50 MCC 201
Section ID’s assigned by section

A01            628422            MW 9:00 – 10:30 TBA           
A02            628423            MW 10:30 – 12:00 TBA
A03            628424            MW 4:00 – 5:30 TBA
A04            628425            TuTh 3:00 – 5:00 TBA
A05            628426            W 3:00 – 4:30 TBA
A06            628427            W 4:30 – 6:00 TBA
A07            628428            TuTh 4:00 – 5:30 TBA
A08            628429            TuW 4:00 – 5:30

(Same as HDP 135).  A combined lecture and laboratory course for juniors and seniors in psychology and communication.  Students should have a solid foundation in general psychology and communication as human information processing.  Students will be expected to spend four hours a 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.  Please note that the enrollment size for each site/section is limited.  See department course listing for site/section descriptions. Prerequisite: COHI 100 or HDP 1 or Psych 101

COMT 120
Documentary Sketchbook (4) Linda Laub
Lecture W 2:00 – 4:50 MCC 140
Section ID: 628430
Digital video is the medium used in this class both as a production technology and as a device to explore the theory and practice of documentary production.  Technical demonstrations, lectures, production exercises and readings will emphasize the interrelation between production values and ethics, problems of representation and documentary history. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22 or consent of instructor

COMT 122
Societal Issues of Media Production (4) Jennifer Vernon
Lecture F 12:00 – 2:50 MCC 221
Section ID: 635084
Analyze forms of social issue media production, photography, audio/radio, arts, crafts, Web, print zines, political documentary.  Students work with several forms of media making: video, audio, Web design, and a project intheir chosen format. Prerequisite: COGN 21 and COGN 22 or consent of instructor.

COMT 175
Representing Communication (4) – Michael Cole/Kelly Moore
Lecture MWF 11:00 – 11:50 CRB 305
Section ID TBA
This will be a small, experimental, hands-on class that will study ways to represent the unique nature of the Communication Department to a wider community.  The instructor and students will work closely with the Departmental Web master to create a quarter electronic newsletter that highlights interesting accomplishments by faculty and students, maintains a “Communication Events” column that provides up to date information of meetings and lectures of local, regional, and national interest.  A special feature of the class will be to engage our large alumni group in providing undergraduate students with ideas about future career opportunities in the many fields that a communication degree can lead to.

Admission by permission of instructor.  Interested students should contact (Professor Michael Cole) at mcole@ucsd.edu and include a paragraph stating what you can bring to this effort.

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COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING

COHI 100
Introduction to communication and Individuals (4) Barry Brown
Lecture TuTh 2:00 – 3:20 York 2722
Section Ids assigned by section

A01            628401            Mon 10:00 – 10:50 APM 2301
A02            628402            Mon 11:00 – 11:50 APM 2301
A03            628403            Fri 8:00 – 8:50 Centr 201
A04            628404            Fri 11:00 – 11:50 CSB 005
A05            628405            Tues 6:00 – 6:50 Centr 203
A06            628406            Thurs 6:00 – 6:50 HSS 2152
A07            628407            Weds 8:00 – 8:50 HSS 1305
A08            628408            Weds 9:00 – 9:50 HSS 1305
A09            628409            Weds 10:00 – 10:50 HSS 2154
A10            628410            Weds 11:00 – 11:50 HSS 1128A
A11            628411            Fri 9:00 – 9:50 HSS 2154
A12            628412            Fri 10:00 – 10:50 HSS 2154

A good deal of scholarship concerning the interaction of human beings with various means of communication suggests that different media permit or promote differently structured messages.  A wide variety of claims concerning media-individual interactions are made, beginning with suggestions that Language affects thought through claims about the consequences of literacy to suggestions about the influence of electronic media on individual and group behavior.  The course will teach the students to analyze such claims by examining the kinds of data on which they are based and current techniques in the social sciences for their evaluation. Prerequisite:  COGN 20 or consent of instructor.

COHI 124
Voice: Deaf People in America (4) Tom Humphries
Lecture TuTh 11:00 – 12:20 U413 2
Section ID: 628413
The relationship between small groups and dominant culture is studied by exploring the world of deaf people who have for the past twenty years begun to speak as a cultural group, issues of language, communication, self-representation, and social structure are examined. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor

COHI 135
Language and Globalization (4) Carol Padden
Lecture MWF 10:00 – 10:50 WLH 2204
Section ID: 628414
The interaction of language and culture in human communication.  New and old languages, standard and dialect, dominant and endangered, are the special focus.  Selected languages as examples of how languages exist in contemporary contexts. Prerequisite: COHI 100 or consent of instructor.

COHI 175 A00
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) Michele Goldwasser
Title: Language, Communication and Gender
Lecture TuTh 9:30 - 10:50 Centr 222
Section ID: 628415
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. Prerequisite: COHI 100 or consent of instructor.

COHI 175 B00
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) - Mary Fox
Title: Communication and Health Risks
Lecture MW 5:00 – 6:20 centr 222
Section ID: 628416
At a time when members of the US population increasingly view themselves as in charge of their own health, the ways that health risks are communicated and understood are pivotal in health outcomes. This course will examine the apparatus of communicating and understanding 'risks' in health from several standpoints. First, a survey of the methods used to calculate health risks in individuals and in populations will yield a closer understanding of the parameters by which risk is known or estimated. Second, health risk communication may amplify, diminish, or make invisible a given health risk, often in accord with the interests of groups involved with such communications. Finally, the ways that risk communications are understood reflect the influence of several social psychological processes on the way one receives and acts upon health risk information. This course will draw upon health 'risks' in nutrition, epidemics, mental health, and in other areas of health of particular interest to the class.  Prerequisite: COHI 100 or consent of instructor.

COHI 175 C00
Advanced Topics in Communication (4) – Louise Barkhuus
Title: Theories and Methods of Studying Everyday Technologies
Lecture MWF 12:00 – 12:50 Seq 148
Section ID 635507This course explores the social issues, development and use of everyday technologies. In particularly we will study how technologies such as telephones,  mobile phones, television, computers and the internet have become part of everyday life. We will analyze technologies both empirically and theoretically, drawing on Science and Technology Studies and Human-Computer Interaction, to find out how technologies are shaped into use. Students will get hands-on experience with evaluating technology through different evaluation methodologies.  Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor

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SOCIAL FORCE

COSF 124
Black Women, Feminism and the Media (4) – Boatema Boateng
Lecture TuTh 3:30 – 4:50 Peter 104
Section ID 635085
This course examines the challenges that arise in using feminist theory to understand Black women’s experience in Africa and the U.S.  It also looks at the mass media and popular culture as arenas of Black feminist struggle.  Prerequisite: COSF 100 or consent of instructor.

COSF 134
Communication, Politics and Citizenship in America (4) – Jeffrey Minson
Lecture TuTh 5:00 – 6:20 WLH 2111
Section ID 635506
(Formerly COCU 134).)  Selected topics, both historical and contemporary, on the public sphere, political participation, and the meaning of citizenship.  Topics may include: voting practices, the role of political parties, social and cultural dimensions of citizenship, and shifts in public understanding of what counts as “political”.  The course may require five to ten h ours of internship work, arranged through the AIP office.  See instructor for further information.  Prerequisite: COSF 100 or consent of instructor.

COSF 175 A00
Advanced Topics in Communication as a Social Force (4) McMurria
Title: History of Electronic Media
Lecture MW 5:00 – 6:20 CSB 002
Section ID: 628432

COSF 175 B00
Advanced Topics in Communication as a Social Force (4) Kelly Gates
Lecture TuTh 3:30 – 4:50 Centr 222
Section ID: 628433

COSF 175 C00
Advanced Topics in Communication as a Social Force (4) Jonathan Markovitz
Lecture TBA
Section ID: TBA
This course examines the relationship between film, social movements, and the state. Why have social movements seen film as worthy of attention? Why have they decided to target some films while mobilizing in support of others? What role has the state played in such efforts? The course will pay particular attention to social movement responses to the racialized depictions of gender and sexuality that have been central to Hollywood film from its inception, as exemplified in such films as The Birth of a Nation. Topics to be addressed include the importance of film for the anti-lynching movement, the blacklist and the “Hollywood Ten,” and Turkish efforts to suppress cinematic acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide.

COSF 180
Political Economy and Mass Communication (4) Andrew Feldman
Lecture TuTh 12:30 – 1:50 Centr 222
Section ID: 628434

The social, legal, and economic forces affecting the evolution of mass communications institutions and structure in the industrialized world.  The character and the dynamics of mass communications in the United States today. Prerequisites: COSF 100 or consent of instructor

GRADUATE

COGR 225A
Introduction to Science Studies (4) Robert Westman and Andrew Lakoff
Lecture Tu 9:30 – 12:20 HSS 3027
Section ID: 628194

COGR 225C
Colloquium in Science Studies (4) Professor TBA
Lecture M 4:00 – 6:20 HSS 3027
Section ID: 628195

COGR 275 A00
Topics in Communication ProSeminar: Computer Game Studies (4) Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Lecture M 3:00 – 5:50  MCC 201
Section ID: 628134

COGR 275 B00
Topics in Communication Proseminar (4) Patrick Anderson
Performance Theory
Lecture Th 2:00 – 4:50 MCC 201
Section ID: 628135
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 short presentations 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 C00
Topics in Communication Proseminar (4) Carol Padden
Lecture M 12:00 – 2:50 MCC 201
Section ID: 628136

COGR 280
Advanced Workshop in Communication Media (4) Zeinabu Davis
Lecture Tu 2:00 – 4:50 MCC 140
Section ID: 628137

COGR 294
History of Communications Research (4) Kelly Gates
Lecture W 3:00 – 5:50 MCC 201
Section ID: 628138

COGR 296
Communications Research: Interdisciplinary (4) Staff
Lecture F 12:00 – 2:50 MCC 201
Section ID: 628139

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