Courses

This course explores the power of oral storytelling as a means of self-excavation and community building. It offers students a survey of the history of oral storytelling as well as existing research on the relationship between storytelling and identity/community development. The course also serves as an intensive workshop, wherein students will learn from seasoned, award-winning storytellers in guest lectures; practice the art and craft of oral storytelling in a small group of their peers; and prepare and eventually perform a personal story of their own.

This course examines the history of Special Education in the American public education system, as well as what it means to be a ‘disabled’ student today by examining the vital components that teachers must be aware of when working with students with disabilities. There are 14 generally recognized disability classifications today, each with its’ own unique impact on the educational life of the affected student. This course will look at the current research into multiple intelligences & learning styles, where it becomes evident that using the arts; music, visual arts & dance, can allow access points to many students into the world of learning. Students will explore how collaboration with general education teachers can help inform their pedagogical practice as well as deepen the educational experience of their students. Additionally, the course covers the Individual Education Plan and how to use it as a teaching tool. Students will learn how to partner with the family, community, colleagues & pupils to create a differentiated & welcoming classroom environment. Finally, the course will also examine the ways disability is represented visually in our culture, both through media/popular culture & contemporary art practices.

An umbrella course that examines global dynamics in culture and media in a broad international and historical context. Special attention is paid to the social, economic, and political theories that inform our understanding of the phenomena and experience of globalization, and its relationship to media and cultural production, distribution and consumption. Specific courses focus on transnational identity formation, political economy of global media, and regional clusters such as the Middle East, Asia, South America, etc.

This course examines theoretical and methodological challenges in producing cartographies of the global that pay attention to transnational flows, assemblages, circuits and disjunctures across multiple political and social processes. Paying special attention to ethnographic challenges, we will conduct close readings of select global ethnographies of media and communication in order to discuss and decenter the politics of transnational linkages organized around issues of modernity, mobility and locality.

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Provides intensive reviews of common methods of quantitative or qualitative data analysis, and methods of design or measurement used in psychological research. Organized as a series of multisession workshops to provide an overview of the basic assumptions underlying a specific method, strategies for conducting analyses, reading outputs, and interpreting findings. Workshops offered for variable points (0-6); and point values for each workshop will be determined by the Department of Applied Psychology.

This umbrella course examines select topics in critical, cultural, social, and political theory, with special attention to problems of interpretation in the humanities and related social sciences in both historical and theoretical contexts.

Few figures have influenced the modern conception of the subject more than
Sigmund Freud. In this doctoral seminar we explore the writings of Freud, followed by those of one of his most influential interpreters, Jacques Lacan. Seminar themes include: the structure of the psyche; the unconscious; castration and lack; the symbolic order; neurosis; desire; enjoyment; and sex. Additional readings drawn from the work of Joan Copjec, Achille Mbembe, and Alenka Zupančič.

In this doctoral seminar we examine the digital and the analog, not merely by reference to actually existing media technologies, but also, and perhaps more importantly, through encounters with theory and philosophy. Themes in the course include analogicity, digitality, the logical, the illogical, interfaces, cybernetics, psychoanalysis, geometry, and arithmetic. Readings are drawn from the work of Friedrich Kittler, Sarah Kofman, Catherine Malabou, Brian Massumi, Katherine McKittrick, Hito Steyerl, McKenzie Wark, and others.

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This course examines specific topics within the fields of cultural studies and visual culture, with the aim of delving into particular theoretical concerns within these overlapping and interrelated fields of study. It is the aim of Special Topics courses to incorporate historical theoretical frameworks and to examine important recent scholarship on these issues.

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This advanced graduate seminar offers a survey of important academic monographs documenting the history of computing, introducing students to critical objects, interventions, and authors in and around the field. Readings will be drawn from the history of technology, history of science, media studies, STS, and game studies.

This umbrella course is designed for doctoral students on themes related to the social, cultural, historical, and political economic meanings and effects of communication technologies. Specific themes may include: digital media, social networking, intellectual property and issues of privacy, robotics and artificial intelligence, computer hacking, genetics and biocomputing, the business of new technology.

In this course students will read a set of exemplary ethnographies in the area of
technology and media as a way to explore different strategies and techniques for ethnographic research, writing, and analysis. In addition to close reading and discussion, participants will plan, undertake, and report on mini-ethnographic projects. The course will be of special interest to students who intend to conduct ethnographic research for their dissertation projects (or are considering doing so).

This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). We will survey the ways scholars in STS "whose research methods range from historical epistemology to medical anthropology to the sociology of science" have understood the natural world, technical systems, human perception, and the social order to be co-produced. Following Bruno Latour, throughout the course we will investigate "matters of fact" as always "matters of concern."

This course will explore semiotics & performance theory by comparing the modes of performance used in media (including television, film, radio, advertising, theater, music & visual art) with social performance in general. Readings will draw from classic & contemporary work in semiotics, performance theory & linguistic anthropology, analyzing media & art forms from around the world. Students will engage with the theoretical concepts & analytical models encountered in class by applying them to a media form, performance or piece of art of their own choosing.

The objective of this course is to develop a broad understanding of the process in which typically developing children acquire speech & language skills. The complexities of normal human communication will be focused upon which will lay the foundation for discussing speech sound acquisition & language development from the prelinguistic stage to the school age period. Theoretical aspects of speech & language development will be reviewed.