Core Course

91863

ANTH 240 Introduction to Media

Laura Kunreuther

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11:50 am -1:10 pm

OLIN 204

HUM

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities (core course), Science, Technology & Society This course offers a foundation in media history and theory, with a focus on how to use aspects of traditional humanistic approaches such as close reading and visual literacy to critically engage with both traditional and new media. As people around the world engage on a daily (and even hourly) basis with a variety of different media and technology, humanities scholars have turned their attention to ways new and old media shape people’s perception of time, space, publicity, knowledge, social and personal identity. Just as culture is being reshaped by everyday media practices, media itself has reshaped our idea of culture and humanity. The premise of this course is that the new-ness of new media can only be approached against the background of humanistic experimentation and imagination with both old and new media. Drawing on key media theorists, such as, Walter Benjamin, Fredrick Kittler, Marshall McLuhen, Donna Haraway, Katherine Hayles, Henry Jenkins, and others, we will examine topics that include “old media” like money and writing/print culture, as well as the rise of electronic media like the motion picture, radio, and digital media - what Jenkins has called the “convergence culture” of today. As part of our ongoing examinations of how material conditions shape discourse, we will assess our own positions as users, consumers, and potential producers of media. This course fulfills a requirement for the Experimental Humanities concentration, and will involve a “practice” component that complements our engagement with media theory.

Class size: 22

92266

LIT 2032 signs and symbols: pattern recognition in literature and code

Collin Jennings

M . W . .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

OLINLC 115

ELIT

92353

ARTH 132 THE CULTURAL PRACTICE OF MAPPING

Gretta Tritch-Roman

M . W . .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

HDR 106

AART

91979

FILM 251 Small Screens

Jacqueline Goss

M . . . .

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

AVERY 333/338

PART

91729

FILM 320 Internet Aesthetics

Ed Halter

. . . Th .

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

AVERY 217

AART

91794

THTR 349 The Exorcist

David Levine

. T . . .

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

FISHER PAC STUDIO NO.

PART

91791

THTR 347 Adapting Shakespeare

Neil Gaiman

TBA

TBA

PART

91767

LIT 3122 The Revenge Tragedy

Lianne Habinek

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 309

ELIT

91553

LIT 325 Why Do They Hate Us? REPRESENTING THE MIDDLE EAST

Dina Ramadan

. T . . .

10:10 am -12:30 pm

OLIN 309

FLLC

91551

LIT 2081 Mass Culture of Postwar Japan

Nathan Shockey

. T . Th .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

OLIN 202

FLLC

91742

WRIT 345 Imagining Nonhuman ConsciousnESs

Benjamin Hale

. T . . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 304

PART

91902

HIST 2123 FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL: PhotoGRAPHY & Visual History in Africa

Drew Thompson

M . W . .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

OLINLC 120

HIST

91934

PS 285 Privacy: Why Does It Matter?

Roger Berkowitz

. . W . .

5:00 pm -6:20 pm

RKC 103

HUM