COURSES

The courses listed in this page give a general idea about the courses offered by the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. Students must refer to OSCAR to learn about current course offerings for a specific semester. All courses are three credit hours, unless otherwise specified.

LCC 6215 Issues in Media Studies

This course focuses on the study of mass media from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives.

LCC 6310 The Computer as an Expressive Medium (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Explores the development of the representational power of the computer and the interplay between digital technology and culture.

LCC 6311 Visual Culture and Design (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Explores visual media through a mutually instructive and integrated interplay between critical analyses and the creation of digital artifacts.

LCC 6312 Design, Technology, and Representation (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Explores historical, cultural, and theoretical issues raised by technologies of representation through critical analyses and the creation of digital artifacts.

LCC 6313 Principles of Interactive Design (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Design principles of exploiting the affordances of the digital medium, including large information spaces and procedural environments.

LCC 6316 History of Digital Media

Examines digital media in the context of earlier media, such as handwriting and printing as well as photography, radio, film, and television.

LCC 6317 Interactive Fiction

Students create interactive fictions in a variety of formats, including intersecting story worlds, interactive characters, simulations, and replay worlds.

LCC 6318 Experimental Media

Students will develop the critical, intellectual, and creative tools necessary to understand, work with, and reimagine design at the developmental stages of emerging technologies.

LCC 6319 Intellectual Property Policy and Law

Students examine constitutionally informed policy and pragmatic legal issues in intellectual property law, focusing on the effects of power structures and information digitization.

LCC 6650 Project Studio

This course offers students the opportunity to work on focused research within existing long-term projects of the New Media Center (NMC).

LCC 8000 Proseminar-Media Theory

Key traditions of media theory that contribute to the study of Digital Media.

LCC 8001 Digital Media Studies

Advanced work in production and critique of new media forms.

Additional courses

LCC 7999 Preparation for Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
LCC 8802 Special Topics in Information Design and Technology
LCC 8803 Special Topics in Information Design and Technology
LCC 8823 Special Topics in Game Design and Analysis
LCC 8910 Special Problems in Information Design and Technology
LCC 8920 Special Problems in Information Deisgn and Technology
LCC 8997 Graduate Teaching Assistantship
LCC 8998 Graduate Research Assistantship
LCC 9000 Doctoral Thesis (6 credits)