2/10/12
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
SPRING 2012 COURSE LISTING

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

IMPORTANT DATES:

First day of classes – Monday 4/2/12
Automatic wait-lists officially end – Thursday 4/12/12
DEADLINE TO ADD WITHOUT AN ADD CARD – FRIDAY 4/13/12
DEADLINE TO DROP w/o “W” – Friday 4/27/12

GENERAL COMMUNICATION: LOWER DIVISION

COGN 20
Introduction to Communication (4) Nitin Govil
Lecture: MWF 2:00 - 2:50 WLH 2005
Prerequisite: None, must be taken for a letter grade by Comm majors/minors
Section ID’s:

A01 742610 W 10:00-10:50am SEQUO 148
A02 742611 M 12:00-12:50pm HSS 2150
A03 742612 Th 8:00-8:50am CENTR 201
A04 742613 F 8:00-8:50am HSS 1315
A05 742614 F 9:00-9:50am HSS 1315
A06 742615 W 11:00-11:50am SEQUO 148
A07 742616 M 9:00-9:50am TM102-1
A08 742617 Tu 9:00-9:50am CENTR 217B

COGN 21
Methods of Media Production (4) Brian Goldfarb
Lecture: Tu/Th 12:30-1:50pm, CENTR 115
Prerequisite: None, must be taken for a letter grade
Section ID’s:

A01 742619 F 10:00-11:50am MCC 133
A02 742620 M 12:00-1:50pm MCC 133
A03 742621 W 8:00-9:50am MCC 133
A04 742622 F 12:00-1:50pm MCC 133
A05 742623 W 5:00-6:50pm MCC 201
A06 742624 Tu 8:00-9:50am MCC 133

COGN 22
Methods of Media Production Lab (2) Brian Goldfarb
Prerequisite: COGN 21 (may be taken concurrently)
Section ID’s:

A00 742625 M 12:00-2:50pm MCC 222
B00 742626 W 11:00-1:50pm MCC 222
C00 742627 M 3:00-5:50pm MCC 222
D00 742628 F 9:00-11:50am MCC 222

GENERAL COMMUNICATION: UPPER DIVISION

COGN 150 A00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Brian Goldfarb
Title: Politics and Cultures of Display
Lecture: Th 9:30-12:20pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 742629

Description: This senior seminar is concerned with institutions and practices of public exhibition and display. Readings, screenings and discussion topics will address historical and contemporary forms of display and their social, ethical, political and organizational dimensions. We consider a range of examples of visual presentation including: exhibitions of art and artifacts, modes of commercial display (from store windows to billboards to runway), and the re-conceptualization of these as digital forms. Prerequisite: Senior standing

COGN 150 B00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Jericho Burg
Title: Communication and Disasters
Lecture: W 9:00-11:50am, MCC 201
Section ID: 742630

Description: There is no such thing as a natural disaster. This is the title of a book about Hurricane Katrina, and it is an increasingly accepted perspective in the study of disasters. This discussion-based senior seminar takes this assertion as its starting point and examines the inherently social nature of disasters, including technologies of detection, institutions of response, mass media reporting, and the construction of vulnerability and victimhood.
Prerequisite: Senior standing

COGN 150 C00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Jericho Burg
Title: The Culture and Politics of Food
Lecture: F 9:00-11:50am, MCC 201
Section ID: 742631

Description: From the struggle to improve school lunches to the issue of world hunger, from growing concerns about obesity in American to the global fight to save family farms, food has become an object of intense cultural and political interest in the United States and internationally. Food is not only a means of survival, but a way of expressing individual and cultural identity, a site of political struggle, a focus for sustainable development, and a multi-billion dollar globalized industry. This course will address the recent rise in food-focused discourses in a variety of contexts, including the evolution of USDA nutrition guidelines, the rise of organic farming, the controversy over genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the world food crisis, and the growth of hunger and malnutrition in the United States. Prerequisite: Senior standing

COGN 150 E00
Required Senior Seminar (4) Ariana Hernandez
Title: Exile
Lecture: Th 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 742632

Description: This seminar examines the condition of exile as a contemporary political and cultural phenomenon, as different from migration, expat life, and refugee status. Through both primary and secondary texts (testimonies, biographies and cultural texts, on the one hand, and historical and scholarly analysis on the other) the course looks at the role of exile in artistic movements and intellectual culture, the formulation of nationalist and other political ideologies, the cultural shaping of feelings like nostalgia, longing and belonging, and the formation of urban communities. Readings will explore a number of case studies, including the making of Miami as an exile city, the contribution of German and Jewish exile to the rise of Hollywood, the global religious and cultural significance of the Tibetan exile, and Iranian exile television in Los Angeles.
Prerequisite: Senior standing

COGN 175 A00
Advanced Topics General/AIP (2) Michele Goldwasser
Lecture: N/A
Section ID: 742633
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in AIP 197

 

COMMUNICATION UPPER DIVISION

COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

COCU 100
Introduction to Communication and Culture (4) Lauren Berliner & Lisa Cartwright
Lecture: TuTh 5:00-6:20pm, PETER 110
Prerequisite: COGN 20, or HDP 1
Section IDs:

A01 742588 M 10:00-10:50am YORK 3050B
A02 742589 M 11:00-11:50am YORK 3050B
A03 742590 Tu 8:00-8:50am WLH 2110
A04 742591 Tu 9:00-9:50am WLH 2110
A05 742592 Tu 11:00-11:50am WLH 2115
A06 742593 W 8:00-8:50am YORK 3050B
A07 742594 W 9:00-9:50am YORK 3050B
A08 742595 W 10:00-10:50am YORK 3050B
A09 742596 Th 8:00-8:50am WLH 2110
A10 742597 Th 9:00-9:50am WLH 2110
A11 742598 F 8:00-8:50am HSS 2152
A12 742599 F 1:00-1:50pm HSS 2152
A13 742600 F 2:00-3:50pm HSS 2152
A14 742601 F 3:00-4:50pm HSS 2152

COCU 132
Gender and Media (4) Denise McKenna
Lecture: TuTh 11:00-12:20pm, CSB 001
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Section ID: 742602

COCU 137
Politics of Bodies (4) Toby Beauchamp
Lecture: TuTh 2:00-3:20pm, PCYNH 122
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Section ID: 742608

COCU 160
Performance & Cultural Studies (4) Andy Rice
Lecture: W 5:00-7:50pm, PETER 102
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Section ID: 742603

COCU 163
Popular Culture/Contemporary Life (4) Michael Hanson
Lecture: MW 5:00-6:20pm, SOLIS 110
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Section ID: 742604

COCU 172
The Cultural Politics of Sports (4) Michael Hanson
Lecture: Th 5:00-7:50pm, PCYNH 122
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing, students cannot receive credit for both COCU 172 and COSF 172
Section ID: 742605

COCU 175 A00
Advanced Topics in Comm, Culture (4) Stefan Tanaka
Title: New of New Media
Lecture: TuTh 2:00-3:20pm, WLH 2115
Section ID: 742606

Description: Over the recent past, we have seen a transition from media to new media to new new media.  This course will focus on the new of new media.  That is, it is not a course on the newest and latest, but an archeology of the meaning and use of the adjective new in relation to media technologies over the past two centuries. By focusing on the "new," we will cover technologies as they were introduced and how they have changed and been changed by individuals and society. This focus shifts our perspective from the technology to users and society: the relevance, utility, uptake (or not) of media as new technologies have been introduced. Technologies will range from obsolete technologies such as the stereoscope, gramophone, and Newton to current technologies such as the book and recent digital technologies. Prerequisite: COCU 100 or concurrent enrollment

COCU 175 B00
Advanced Topics in Comm, Culture (4) Morana Alac
Title: Scent
Lecture: F 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 742607

Description: It is widely accepted that we use our sense of smell to grasp the world and communicate. Yet, scents and the sense of smell have been considered as particularly difficult phenomena to capture and talk about. In this seminar we will examine how different professions -- scientists, designers, human-computer interaction specialists, perfumers, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, museum curators, writers, and artists -- account for and communicate about scents. Prerequisite: Upper division standing

 

COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING

COHI 135
Language & Globalization (4) Carol Padden
Lecture: TuTh 9:30-10:50pm, PETER 102
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Section ID: 742758

COHI 175 A00
Advanced Topics in Comm: Human Information Processing (4) Michele Goldwasser
Title: Language Socialization
Lecture: TuTh 11:00-12:20pm, CSB 002
Section ID: 742759

Description: 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: Upper division standing

COHI 175 B00
Advanced Topics in Comm: Human Information Processing (4) Elena Collavin
Title: Discourse and Identity
Lecture: TuTh 2:00-3:20pm, PCYNH 121
Section ID: 742760

Description: This course explores the role of linguistic strategies in the construction and negotiation of identity. We often operate under the assumption that our identity can be described as a stable set of individual characteristics. In this class we argue that every day as we go about our life we both construct and project some kind of identity, and that often we need to negotiate with others who we are. We will argue that identity is a process, and that to some extent we depend on our interactions with others for acquiring, maintaining, and changing our identity. Prerequisite: Upper division standing

COHI 175 C00
Advanced Topics in Comm: Human Information Processing (4) Deborah Wilson
Title: Tools of the Mind
Lecture: MWF 9:00-9:50am, PCYNH 121
Section ID: 742761

Description: Artifact mediation is at the heart of human communication, and yet we have trouble seeing some of the most powerful artifacts for the same reason fish can’t see water.  We are simply immersed in them.   This class explores those cultural constructions that function as a framework for organizing our experiences,  and the tools that both enable and constrain our thinking and our decision making. Prerequisite: Upper division standing

COHI 175 D00
Advanced Topics in Comm: Human Information Processing (4) Heidi Feldman
Title: International Children’s Songs, Musical Play, And Learned Identity
Lecture: TuTh 8:00-9:20am, CSB 004
Section ID: 742762

Description: Is the idea that children are different from adults, and therefore require a separate body of "children's" music, a fundamental truth or a cultural invention? Is there a universal children's music, or does children's music vary in different cultural settings? How do children's songs and musical play shape cognition, identity formation, and enculturation? This course examines the role of music in the lives of children around the world. Beginning with an overview of scholarship on childhood, we will consider the impact of a range of international children's music, including:  nursery rhymes, medieval church music, Sesame Street songs, Disneyland rides, baby rock, the Mozart Effect, jump rope and handclapping games, piano lessons, griot songs, patriotic youth songs, rite of passage ceremonies, children's dances, and more. Prerequisite: Upper division standing

COHI 175 E00
Advanced Topics in Comm: Human Information Processing (4) Greg Thompson
Title: Consequential Communications: More than sticks and stones – how words
can really hurt you
Lecture: MW 5:00-6:20pm, CSB 005
Section ID: 748459

Description: Most people raised in English speaking countries will have encountered some variant of the saying “Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” And yet the need for such a saying suggests that we often experience the opposite as being true and that words can, in fact, hurt us – and possibly do much more to us. This course addresses the question: how do words hurt, soothe, heal, touch, move, or otherwise change us? In this course we will explore communication across a number of different practices including: educational, psychotherapeutic, interactional, political, ritualistic, and mass mediated practices. Starting with the General Semantics' perspective on language and meaning, we then build out a theory of meaning that seeks to account for the power of communication in practice. Prerequisite: Upper division standing

COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA METHODS

COMT 100
Non-Linear Digital Editing (4) Daniel Martinico
Lecture: M 3:00-5:50pm, MCC 221
Prerequisites: Communication majors, COGN 21 and COGN 22, or consent of instructor.
Section ID: 742763

COMT 115 A00
Media and Design of Social Learning Contexts (6) Carlos Martell
Lecture: MW 1:30 – 2:50pm, CRB 305
Prerequisite: COHI 100 or HDP 1.
Section ID’s:

A01 742765 TuTh 3:30 – 5:20pm
A02 742766 MW 4:00 – 6:00pm

COMT 116
Practicum in Child Development (6) Caroline Collins
Lecture: TuTh 9:30 – 10:50am, WLH 2206
Prerequisite: COHI 100, HDP 1 or Psych 101
Section ID’s:

A01 742771 MW 9:00 – 10:30am TBA
A02 742772 MW 10:30 – 12:00pm TBA
A03 742773 MW 4:00 – 5:30pm TBA
A04 742774 TuTh 3:00 – 4:30pm TBA
A05 742775 Tu 4:30 – 6:00pm TBA
A06 742776 W 3:00 - 4:30pm TBA
A07 742777 W 9:30 -11:00am TBA

COMT 122
Social Issues in Media Production (4) Patricia Montoya
Lecture: M 5:00-7:50pm, CENTR 217A
Section ID: 742778
Prerequisites: COGN 21 and COGN 22, or consent of instructor

COMT 175 A00
Advanced Topics in Comm: Media Methods (4) Elizabeth Losh
Title: Digital Journalism: Covering News Stories with Social, Mobile, and Virtual Platforms
Lecture: TuTh 12:30-1:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 742779

Description: This is a hands-on digital journalism course in which students will learn to use multimedia authoring software for online publishing and digital storytelling. We will also read criticism involving new media journalism. The course will emphasize the following four themes:
* Learning how to report, produce, and edit using blogs, audio, video, photos, animations, and digital maps to tell nonfiction stories.
* Discussing emerging themes in digital journalism, such as the role of high-tech companies in shaping news outlets, the rise of “witness journalism” created by non-professional participants, and the use of infographics, digital image alteration software, and news games to appeal to audiences.
* Analyzing the legal, economic, professional, and ethical challenges created by publishing news online.
* Acquiring the skills for advanced Internet research, including how to use material from news archives and public records databases, private social network sites, and online corporate PR appropriately in digital nonfiction.

For more information, please see the syllabus at http://losh.ucsd.edu/courses/journalism.html
Prerequisites: Upper division standing

COMT 175 B00
CANCELED
Advanced Topics in Communication: Media Methods (4) Patricia Montoya
Section: 742780

COMT 175 C00
Advanced Topics in Communication: Media Methods (4) Carlos Martell
Title: Practicum in Community based Communication, Breaking the Spatial Divide: UC-Community learning
Lecture: TuTh 2:00-5pm, MCC 250 and at an off campus site. Contact instructor for location. (TuTh 2:00-3:20pm)
Section ID: 748423

For more information read below and see the project website: http://qvole.org/comt175.html

Description: Interested in learning and developing your video production and/or robotics skills while expanding the UC learning environment outside of the university? This is a hands-on course on media production, and robotics, using web-based conferencing communication that will give you the opportunity to create a space for learning and dialogue with youth from Southeast and South San Diego. Students will engage with faculty and researchers from the Departments of Communication, Visual Arts, and the CALIT2 to design activities that make possible a new form of learning that uses cutting edge digital technology to break the spatial divide between these communities. You will be exposed to the practical and theoretical foundations for creating this new form of cross-community learning, that will offer you the opportunity to practice your video production skills (composition, lighting, non-linear video editing, etc.) while creating projects on documentary, narrative, collective memory.   
This class meets on Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00-5:00pm, at locations between UCSD and Southeast San Diego. Classes will be divided between discussion and examination among students from UCSD of course materials, followed by collaborative tasks with local youth on computer-based design work. You will have liberty to design a media project that is relevant to this course.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing AND instructor permission. Those interested please contact correomartell@gmail.com

COMT 175A A00
Advanced Topics in Communication: Media Methods (4) Patricia Montoya
Title: The City as Character
Lecture: TuTh 3:30-4:50pm, SEQUO 147
Section ID: 748624
Description: This course will look at films that construct cities as the main character of their narrative. In this context, narrative includes: discursive construction of history, meaning and structure of city as represented in cinema. The class will explore how the city has also influenced the history and making of movies. Different genres will be analyzed including fiction and non-fiction films and theories from various sources. Students will produce a 10min essay film and various field trips and city walks that will engage them with the every day happenings and experiences of the city.
Students must have experience shooting and editing video and be familiar with non-fiction video production. Prerequisites: COGN 21 and 22

 

COMMUNICATION AS A SOCIAL FORCE

COSF 139
Law, Communication & Freedom of Expression (4) Robert Horwitz
Lecture: TuTh 9:30-10:50am, PETER 103
Prerequisite: COSF 100 or Poli Sci 40 or DOC 2
Section ID: 742781

COSF 140A
Comparative Media Systems: Asia (4) Nitin Govil
Lecture: MW 5:00-6:20 HSS 1128A
Prerequisite: COSF 100
Section ID: 742782

COSF 140B
Comparative Media Systems: Europe (4) Natalia Roudakova
Lecture: MW 5:00-6:20pm, SOLIS 109
Prerequisite: COSF 100
Section ID: 742783

COSF 140C
Comparative Media Systems: Latin America & the Caribbean (4) Michaela Walsh
Lecture: TuTh 3:30-4:50pm, PCNYH 121
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing
Section ID: 742785

COSF 142
Internet in Social & Historical Perspective (4) Kelly Gates
Lecture: TuTh 5:00-6:20pm, CSB002
Prerequisite: COSF 100
Section ID: 742784

COSF 175 A00
CANCELED
Advanced Topics in Comm as Social Force (4) Antonieta Mercado

COSF 175 B00
Advanced Topics in Comm as Social Force (4) Ayhan Aytes
Title: Tactical Media
Lecture: TuTh 3:30-4:50pm, WLH 2205
Section ID: 742787
Description: This seminar will address issues related to utilization of communication technologies for mediating public discourse and organizing democratic protests.  Digital media technologies have played a significant role during the recent large-scale political events including presidential elections, Arab Spring protests and Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. In the light of these examples, we will focus on the potentials and limitations of mobile media and social media platforms as tactical media applications and how they facilitate constructions of alternative public spheres where creative, political and intellectual collectives emerge, intervene and dissolve. The seminar will also emphasize literacy of digital toolkits and their uses as tactical media applications through class discussions and student projects. Prerequisite: Upper division standing

COSF 183
The Politics of World Music (4) Ariana Hernandez
Lecture: TuTh 5:00-6:20pm, PETER 103
Prerequisite: COSF 100
Section ID: 742788

 

COMMUNICATION – GRADUATE

COGR 200C
Introduction to the Study of Communication & The Individual (4) Olga Vasquez
Lecture: M 1:00-3:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 742688
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 225B
Seminar in Science Studies (4) Tal Golan
Lecture: Tu 10:00-12:50pm, HSS 3027
Section ID: 742689
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Science Studies Program

COGR 225C
Colloquium in Science Studies (4) Martha Lampland
Lecture: M 4:00-6:20pm, HSS 3027
Section ID: 742690
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Science Studies Program

COGR 275 A00
Topics in Communication (4) David Serlin
Title: Critical Methodologies: The Problem of Evidence
Lecture: Th 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 742691

Description: Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 275 B00
Topics in Communication (4) Morana Alac
Title: Readings in Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
Lecture: W 3:00-5:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 742692

Description: In this seminar we will carefully and closely read a selection of texts in ethnomethodology as well as texts in phenomenology that have been influential for the development of ethnomethodology.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 275 C00
Topics in Communication (4) Natalia Roudakova
Title: Writing Research Proposals
Lecture: Tu 2:00-4:50pm, MCC 133
Section ID: 742693

Description: This course is an introduction to the art of writing a research proposal. We will concentrate on proposals for ethnographic fieldwork, although the skills learnt will be useful for many other purposes. The proposal writing process will be broken into component parts. Class time will be spent discussing these parts in greater detail and commenting on one another’s work. By the end of the quarter students will have produced a research proposal of their own. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

COGR 275 D00
Topics in Communication (4) Kelly Gates
Title: The Cultural Study of Technology
Lecture: Th 9:30-12:20pm, MCC 201
Section ID: 742694

Description: Cultural approaches to the study of technology, focusing on but not limited to media technologies. The major emphasis will be on understanding technologies as cultural forms, and on the relationship between technological changes and changing forms of human subjectivity, temporality, social and spatial organization. We will also consider what the cultural and historical study of media technologies can contribute to the study of other technologies, and vice versa. Readings will include Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form; Bruno Latour, Aramis, Or the Love of Technology; Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New; Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction; David Golumbia, The Cultural Logic of Computation; and Chandra Mukerji, Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

 

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