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DIVISION COGN 20 A01 615590 Mon 1:00 – 1:50 Centr 201 COGN 21Methods of Media Production (4)—Zeinabu Davis A01 623903 Mon 9:00 – 10:50 MCC 133 This course provides fundamental technical and social constraints shaping media production: light, optics, electricity, new media technology, camera techniques, basic editing languages and aesthetic standards affecting production decisions. Satisfactory completion of COGN 21 is required to check out Media Services equipment. COGN 22Methods of Media Production Lab (2)—Zeinabu Davis A01 615599 Mon 12:00 – 2:50 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). COGN 87 See Freshman Seminar Program website for seminar description and meeting dates
Top COCU 100Introduction to Communication and Culture (4)—Elana Zilberg A01 615571 Mon 9:00 – 9:50 Centr 201 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. Prerequisite: COGN 20 or consent of instructor. COCU 125How to Read a Film (4)—Nina Seja The purpose of this course is to increase our awareness of the ways we commonly interpret or make understandings from movies and to enrich and increase the means by which one can enjoy and comprehend movies. We will talk about movies and we will explore a range of methods and approaches to film interpretation. Readings will emphasize major and diverse theorists, including: Bazin, Eisenstein, Cavell, and Mulvey. Prerequisite: COCU 100 or consent of instructor. COCU 131 (PDF) - (Page)Cinema of the Cuban Revolution (4)—Ariana Hernandez Reguant Overview of the Cuban Revolution (1959 - 2000) and cultural policies through the study of its film production, as a cultural industry and representational style. Cuban film in context of domestic and international events, particularly treatment of race and gender dynamics. Prerequisites: COCU 100 or consent of instructor. COCU 136Concepts of Freedom (4)—Valerie Hartouni 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. Prerequisites: COCU 100 or consent of instructor. COCU 144 - COCU 144 – CANCELLED **************Globalization of Culture and Communications (4)—Elana Zilberg We live in a world of transnational flows of media, money, goods and people. What representational and methodological challenges does globalization pose for the study of culture and communication? We will explore such questions from a cross-cultural and global perspective. Prerequisites: COCU 100 or consent of instructor. COCU 175 A00Advanced Topics in Communication/Culture (4)—Jonathan Markovitz The mass media and popular culture play crucial roles in disseminating representations of race to national audiences, and some of the most powerful and widely circulated racialized imagery centers around discussions of crime and racialized violence. Racial spectacles involving the criminal justice system, international law, and foreign policy provide the occasion for the closest thing we have to national dialogues about race, and are therefore crucially important for national processes of “racial formation” in which categories of race are continually contested and reconstructed. Mass media representations of race, violence, and crime often work to shore up racist stereotypes, but they also provide opportunities for critiquing prevalent conceptions of race, and are often seized upon as vehicles for social protest. This course presents an extended investigation into the contested nature of representations of race and violence. Prerequisites: COCU 100 or consent of instructor. COCU 175 B00Advanced Topics in Communication/Culture (4)—Lisa Bloom The course will reflect on why major traumatic historical events such as the Civil War, 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 , 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. COCU 177Computer Game Studies (4)—Noah Wardrip-Fruin A01 625467 W 2:00 – 2:50 ERC 117 Course considers computer games both as media and as sites of communication. Games are studied through hands-on play and texts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Course encompasses commercial, academic and independent games. Writing papers, analyzing games required. Prerequisites: COCU 100 or consent of instructor. COGN 150 A00Required Senior Seminar (4)—Gary Fields 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 proliferation of attachments to locality and nationality? How can we understand the paradox of global commodity flows, and the strengthening of controls by governments over immigration and the movement of people across borders? 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 debates about globalization as an economic, political, and cultural force, and analyzes the consequences and contradictions emerging from the collision of globalism and nationalism, boundaries and borderlessness. COGN 150 B00Required Senior Seminar (4)—Boatema Boateng 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 C00Required Senior Seminar (4)—Valerie Hartouni 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. COGN 150 D00Required Senior Seminar (4)—Carol Padden The course will gather readily available video and audio material from the presidential campaign for the purpose of examining the language used by candidates as well as those who interact with them: debate moderators, news reporters and the voting public. We will examine how gender, race and class are configured within language through words, rhetorical style and dominant metaphors. We will also examine how setting interacts with language, as candidates deliver speeches, debate issues with each other and answer questions from the media on television and radio. COGN 175
COMT 100Non-Linear Digital Editing (4)—Daniel Martinico 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 or consent of Instructor. COMT 104Studio/TV (6)—Wolfgang Hastert A01 624856 Th 12:30 – 3:30 MCC 140 This course offers students the opportunity to produce and engage in critical discussions around various television production formats. We will study and produce a variety of projects including public service announcements, panel programs, scripted drama, and performance productions. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22 or consent of instructor. COMT 108 Practice, history, and theory of writing for digital media. Text combines with images, sounds, movement, and interaction. New network technologies (email, blogs, wikis, and virtual worlds) create new audience relationships. Computational processes enable texts that are dynamically configured and more. COMT 112Ethnographic Methods/Media Research (4)—Ariana Hernandez Reguant 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. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor. COMT 115Media and Design in Social Learning Contexts (6)—Beth Ferholt A01 615747 MW 1:00 - 2:50 TBA At off campus research site A combined lecture/lab course cross listed in Communication and Human Development. Students attend lecture, write field notes, and spend 3 hours per week in specially designed after school settings working with children and designing new educational media and producing special projects. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or HDP 1 or consent of instructor. COMT 116Practicum in Child Development (6)—Chad Harris A combined lecture and lab course for Juniors and Seniors in Human Development and Communication. 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. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor. COMT 175 COMT 175A A00 This course will be a communication methods course on Digital Media Production and the expression of political messages. This course will consider a range of film, television and video material including fiction, documentary, both commercial and independent. Close attention will be paid to the relationship between portrayals in the mainstream media and work produced by indigenous peoples themselves. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22 or consent of instructor.
Top COHI 127Biography and Life Stories (4)—Olga Kuchinskaya This class examines different ways of telling stories. Our own lives, stories of ordinary people are told and celebrated: funerals, festschrifts, retirement dinners, anniversaries, art shows, etc. We will also examine cities, famous art, films, schools, churches, and so forth. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor. COHI 130Cross-Cultural Communication (4)—Michael Cole Explores psychological and communicative processes that create and sustain culture and shape intercultural interaction. Students engage in creating simulated cultural groups. Course readings focus on microgenesis of culture, idiocultures, culture as an evolutionary strategy, relationships between cultural groups. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor. COHI 134Language and Human Communication (4)—Carol Padden This course looks at the interaction of technology, culture, and language, with a focus on narrative styles. Theories on the role of technology in shaping and transforming talk are examined. Cultural properties such as physical space and work traditions are studied as they bear on styles of talking and talking about the world. Storytelling, humor, and talk of children are used as examples of styles of talking. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor. COHI 175 A00Advanced Topics in Communication (4)—Barry Brown Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to our lives. This course draws on the latest research into different methods of travel, global movements of trade, and the transmission of ideas around the world. We will examine how it is that being mobile depends upon huge systems of immobility - from land borders, to airports, freeways and mobile phones. A diverse range of topics will be covered including kids in cars, the New York subway and social theories of mobility. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor. COHI 175 B00Advanced Topics in Communication (4)—Michelle Goldwasser 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 COHI 175 C00 Who are we? Every day as we go about our life we both construct and project some kind of identity. How do we do it? Is the process of being our own self something that we do autonomously, or do we depend on others for acquiring, maintaining and changing our identity? Do we have one or several identities? Besides, what is identity? The course explores the role of linguistic strategies in the construction and negotiation of identity. The study of identity is the domain of several disciplines. Anthropology, sociology, psychology, gender studies, and literature are only some among them. While all identity studies share some common assumptions, differences and often polemics mark the relation between diverse approaches. While we will keep clear existing differences in identity studies, the course centers on some of the key concepts and milestone writings on the topic across branches of identity studies. First we will focus on the rituals and pitfalls of face to face interaction. We will then clarify the tenets of social constructionism, and we will discuss the results of studies emphasizing in turn member categorization, indexicality and positioning. While discussing the assigned readings we will analyze identity construction in the workplace, in doctor-patient interaction, across gender, and during a rape trial. Prerequisites: COHI 100 or consent of instructor. COHI 175 D00
COSF 140 AComparative Media Systems: Asia (4)—Nitin Govil 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. Prerequisites: COSF 100 or consent of instructor. COSF 140 CComparative Media Systems: Latin America and the Caribbean (4)—Daniel Hallin 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 or consent of instructor. COSF 141History of US Telecommunications (4)—Nadine Kozak This course provides a sustained historical focus on the developing social form and industry structure of U.S. telecommunications, beginning with the Post Office. Policy issues are regularly incorporated into readings and discussions. Emphasis is placed on the emergence around the turn of the century, of the regulated national telephone network system dominated by AT&T and its extension. Prerequisite: COSF 100 or consent of instructor. COSF 175 B00Advanced Topics: Communications in Social Force (4)—Jonathan Markovitz This course examines the relationship between film, social movements, COSF 175 C00Advanced Topics: Communications in Social Force (4)—Magali Muria This course will introduce students to the politics of representation and the representation of politics in the US.-Mexico border. It will provide tools to understand how the border with Mexico is represented, why, and what kinds of political issues affect the border population, as well as the way in which media and government on both sides address them. The course will also expose students to broader theoretical issues related to globalization, borders, and cross-border cultural interaction. Prerequisites: COSF 100 or consent of instructor. COSF 175 D00Advanced Topics: Communication in Social Force (4)—Kelly Gates 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. Prerequisites: COSF 100 or consent of instructor.
COGR 200AIntroduction Study: Communications as a Social Force (4)—Nitin Govil This course focuses on the political economy of communication, the social organization of key media institutions. There will be both descriptive and analytical concerns. The descriptive concern will emphasize the complex structure of communication industries and organizations, both historically and cross-nationally. The analytic focus will examine casual relationships between the economic and political structure of societies, the character of their media institutions, public opinion, and public attitudes and behaviors expressed in patterns of voting, consuming, and public participation. The nature of evidence and theoretical basis for such relationships will be critically explored. COGR 201LQualitative Analysis and Information Systems (4)—Brian Goldfarb Historical and ethnographic studies of information systems - the design and use of information and communication technologies in their social, ethical, political and organizational dimensions. Objects of study range from the invention of file folders to email use and distributed databases as communication systems. COGR 225BSeminar in Science Studies (4)—Andrew Lakoff, Chandra Mukerji Study and discussion of selected topics in the science studies field. Required for all students in the Science Studies Program. Prerequisites: enrollment in the Science Studies Program or consent of instructor. COGR 225CColloquium in Science Studies (4)—Steven Epstein COGR 275Topics in Communication/Graduate (4)—Gary Fields This course in critical geography examines how different forms of power create various types of representational and spatial and boundaries that influence practices of exclusion and conflict within a variety of different spatial theatres. As a seminar, the course considers these placed-based theatres at a range of different scales each week beginning with the body itself, moving through such spatial environments as the city, the nation, the reservation, the prison, the borderland, culminating in the conflict theatre of the Middle East. The course considers how the exercise of power, and processes of identity formation have informed debates about concepts of “otherness” across a number of social categories, such as nationality, race, religion, gender, immigrant, and the poor. The course seeks to explain how representational differences and conflict have emerged from the interplay of economy, power, and identity, and how these differences are linked to the geography and politics of place. COGR 280Advanced Workshop in Communication Media (4)—Isaac Artenstein This production course is designed for graduate students interested in learning the basics of making documentary videos through the production of individual and group projects. Students with varying levels of production experience are encouraged to enroll, as this course allows for individualized instruction and technical support from the Media Center Staff. Special emphasis will be given to work dealing with the U.S. – Mexico border, exploring topics of immigration, labor, culture, politics, geography and media representation. Learning by hands-on production (and constructive criticism) will be complemented by screening relevant documentaries from the film and video reserve library. The course is taught by Visiting Professor Isaac Artenstein, who has extensive experience in writing, directing and producing award-winning feature films and documentaries dealing with the border region. COGR 500’s A00 Patrick Anderson - 615731
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