This course offers an introduction to the historical development and cultural impact of various forms of media print, radio, television, film, and interactive electronic applications.

Introduces film techniques and vocabulary in an historical and cultural context. Written texts are supplemented by viewings of specific shots, scenes, and films.

An examination of the origins of the field of performance studies in literary study of theatre and drama, anthropological investigations of ritual, and sociological analyses of performance in everyday life.

Introduction to key concepts, methods, and achievements in computational media, and the convergence of digital technology with cultural traditions of representation.

Studio-based course that provides students with basic skills needed to create digital visual images and to analyze designs from historical and theoretical perspectives.

Explores literary and historical works considering ethnic issues in American culture, including immigration, social assimilation, “double consciousness,” the development of ethnic identity/pride, and multiculturalism.

Explores historical, cultural, and theoretical issues raised by technologies of representation, including written, spoken, and gestural languages; print, painting and illustration; still and moving photography; recorded sound; and computer-mediated communications and interactive digital media.

Provides the student with the conceptual, formal, aesthetic, and technical approaches to reconsider film, videos, and animation within the context of emerging digital forms.

Presents principles and practices guiding the development of emerging digital genres. Emphasis on maximizing the affordances of the computer in organizing and communicating complex information.

Examines principles of design for shaping the procedural and participatory affordances of digital environments, emphasizing the role of cultural context and media transitions.

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

Examines significant examples of this emerging genre, including its roots in experimental uses of older media, and engages students in creating their own interactive narrative.

Emphasis is on the design elements common to games and the expressive possibilities and cultural concerns specific to digital games.

Provides students with key conceptual, formal, aesthetic and technical elements needed in creating artifacts in areas ranging from augmented and mixed reality to scientific visualization.

Examines expressive possibilities of artificial intelligence techniques in computer games.

Examines AI-based approaches to representing, understanding, and generating stories.

Explores in depth a theoretical issue central to film and/or television. Among its concerns are authorship, genre theory, spectatorship, ideology, narrative theory, and the relationship between these media and social history.

Surveys the history of film from its machine origins to its present digital developments. It focuses on various movements, figures, and narrative developments in world cinema.(prerequisite LCC 2500)

Traces in depth an individual artist’s career and affords students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the works of an important figure in the world of film.(prerequisite LCC 2500)

Examines the development of film technology and the implications of that technology for cinema’s treatment of technology.(prerequisite LCC 2400 or LCC 2500)

Studies in depth a genre of film studies, such as Science Fiction or Animation. Contact us to see what is available this semester. (prerequisite LCC 2500)

An in-depth investigation of a major movement, theory, period, or technological development in film studies.

Explores the concept of gender and its usefulness as a theoretical category in a variety of disciplines. It includes cultural studies of literature, communication media, cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science.

Examines specific scientific, philosophical, and literary/cultural texts in order to determine the role ideology plays in the construction of culture, especially scientific and technological culture.

Examines specific philosophical, scientific, and cultural texts to determine the role that gender has played in the scientific and technological knowledge, currently and historically.

Examines specific historical and contemporary construction of race, within the prevailing scientific theories and ideologies in order to determine the role plated by “race” in scientific and technological culture.

Surveys the emergence of ecocriticism as an analytical framework for interpreting the verbal and visual rhetorics of environmentalism in both western and nonwestern cultures.

This course takes as its subject the ways in which argumentative and persuasive discourse is used to create and disseminate scientific knowledge.

Surveys the development of Postcolonial literary theory and historiography in order to analyze the interdependent discourses and practices of post-Enlightenment science/technology and European imperialism.

Discusses the history of biology and medicine; popular representations of health, disease, and the medical establishment; and the cultural implications of medical imaging technologies.

Introduction to Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe through an examination of one or a few major cultural conflicts expressed in the literary genres and periods.

Study of one or more current issues in science, technology, and culture.

An examination of cultural theories of performance and their application to the analysis of specific performative events.

Examination of one or more topics of current interest in performance studies.

An in-depth investigation of a specific issue or theme in Performance Studies.

Examines the elements of fiction and what has made fiction, especially the novel, distinctive, popular, and enduring. Readings may include formal, cultural, and historical theories.

Explores the works of African American writers from the Colonial period to the present and examines a variety of cultural constructs that have fundamentally shaped the African American literary tradition.

Students in this course will analyze writings by women and examine feminist and other relevant cultural critiques of literature.

Examines science fiction texts from the last 200 years to show how they reflect ambiguous reactions to change.

The dramatic literature, theory, performance practices, and historical and cultural context of theatre from the Renaissance through Restoration.

This course examines works of literature dealing overtly with illness and healing, works about or by phyicians and other caregivers, and works that raise questions about ethical behavior in the face of sickness.

An examination of the works and career of a major author in historical and cultural context.

An examination of Shakespeare’s works with attention to generic conventions, historical context, and the relationship of text and performance. Major works of Shakespeare’s contemporaries are studied as appropriate.

An introduction to Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe through an examination of one or a few major cultural conflicts expressed in the literary genres and periods.