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Course: |
ARTS 235 Introduction to Media |
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Professor: |
Fahmidul Haq |
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CRN: |
90956 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Reem Kayden Center
111 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis
of Art |
Class cap: |
20 |
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Credits: |
4 |
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Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities Core Course
Introduction to Media provides a foundation in media history and
theory. We will study the origins, evolution and changing nature of a variety
of media, as well as explore how media reconstructs the world we inhabit. The
course will enable students to understand and critically evaluate the ethical
and representational issues around many different forms of media. Introduction
to Media is one of the two core courses for the Experimental Humanities
concentration (http://eh.bard.edu). This means that we will
take on theoretical readings and embrace the ethos of "practice" and
"making” as we consider what constitutes humanistic essays now, how they
use and reflect upon “old” media, and what forms they might take in the future.
Finally, students will spend some hands-on time working with media to assess
their own positions as ‘prosumer’ – not just as users and consumers but also as
producers and creators of media and through this, a sense of agency will be
generated among them. Assigned texts will include those by Adorno, Benjamin,
Barthes, McLuhan, Berger, and Chomsky, among others.