Courses

A methods course focusing on how to teach mathematics at the elementary school level. Use a variety of manipulatives & the development of concepts and skills.

A methods course focusing on how to teach mathematics at the elementary school level. Use of a variety of manipulatives & the development of concepts & skills

Programming for MIDI, C, and other appropriate techniques. Design and implementation of software sequencers, interface drivers, and hardware applications will be the focus.

The theoretical basis, principles, and techniques of kinesiological electromyography and motion analysis of normal and abnormal human motion.

The theoretical basis, principles, and techniques of dynamometry; the integration of kinesiological electromyography, motion analysis, and dynamomtry.

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This course examines the culture of money& finance, and the role of the media & popular culture in making sense of economics. It engages with the ways that money, finance, & economics are shaped in part through media representations, that finance is not simply a system but also a culture, & that capitalism shapes world views. The course examines the history of ways of thinking about money, the centrality of financial markets in 20th-21st century globalization, & the examination of financial systems in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown. Students will explore the role of money media in shaping attitudes toward consumerism, financial decisions, & finance systems.

This course will examine the relationship between mediated forms of communications the formation of identities, both individual and social. Attention will be paid to the way mediated forms of communication represent different social and cultural groupings, with a particular emphasis on gender, race, ethnicity, class and nationality.

This course investigates the mediation of music & music-like sounds in both private & public life. Commercial venues, from restaurants to rest rooms, pipe Muzakl into its spaces; radios broadcast more music than any other content today; soundtracks imprint the texture of signifying associations for television shows & films; we carry personal playlists on mobile music players; & musical media & technological, ideological & metaphysical dimension; as well as the relation of music to mass media (radio, television, the internet) & the film and music industries.

This interactive and discussion-oriented course provides an introduction to the politics and tactics underlying five broad categories of media activism: media interventions at the levels of representation- labor relations- policy- strategic communication- and "alternative" media making. The course will rely on both a survey of the existing scholarship on media activism- as well as close analyses of actual activist practices within both old and new media. As a class- we will examine a wide-range of digital media as well as local- national- and global media activist institutions.

This interactive & discussion-oriented course provides an introduction to the politics & tactics underlying five broad categories of media activism: media interventions at the levels of representation, labor relations, policy, strategic communication, & “alternative” media making. The course will rely on both a survey of the existing scholarship on media activism, as well as close analyses of actual activist practices within both old & new media. As a class, we will examine a wide-range of digital media as well as local, national, and global media activist institutions.

Introduces students to methods for analyzing the content, structure, production, and context of media in society, including textual analysis, political economy, archival research, and ethnography. As students employ these frameworks in their own analyses of mediated communication, they build media-specific projects using image-editing, visualization, and web-based archival technologies.

This course examines the broad range of activities associated with the globalization of media production, distribution, and reception. Issues include: the relationship between local and national identities and the emergence of a 'global culture' and the impact of technological innovations on the media themselves and their use and reception in a variety of settings.

The course examines the role of media in the lives and cultures of transnational immigrant communities. Using a comparative framework and readings drawn from interdisciplinary sources, the course explores how media practices and media representations define and enable new conceptions and practices of national belonging, identity and culture in the context of global migration.

Cultural meanings of health and disease are shaped not only by scientific and medical discourses but also by media and communication technologies. This course examines the role of media "from scientific instruments to public health campaigns to data visualization techniques" in shaping what counts as normal and pathological; governmental logics of care, public understanding of biotechnology; and the ways individuals and collectives understand and contest biomedical knowledge. Course materials are drawn from anthropology, history, science and technology studies, communication studies, and medical memoir.

This course investigates the ways human and natural environments have been shaped by media representations and technologies, extending from newspapers, photography, and popular literature, to film, television, and video games. Integrating eco-cinema, eco-criticism, environmental communication, and environmental studies, the course explores how environments are represented in visual media through different historical and social contexts, beginning with the rise of landscape photography, scientific representations of nature, and "fictional" wildlife films, to environmental media works in the 1960s to the role of contemporary interactive and "recycling" based aesthetics.

This course will investigate the dominant critical perspectives that have contributed to the development of Environmental Communication as a field of study. This course explores the premise that the way we communicate powerfully impacts our perceptions of the "natural" world, and that these perceptions shape the way we define our relationships to and within nature. The goal of this course is to access various conceptual frameworks for addressing questions about the relationship between the environment, culture and communication. Students will explore topics such as nature/wildlife tourism, consumerism, representations of the environment in popular culture and environmental activism.

Explores theoretical, methodological, and archival strategies for research on early or obsolete media artifacts. This seminar functions as an ongoing research studio while discussing central texts in the field of media archaeology.