MASTER COURSE LIST

ENGL1101 - English Composition I

3 Credit Hours

Freshman English I.

ENGL1102 - English Composition II

3 Credit Hours

Freshman English II.

LCC2100 - Introduction to Science, Technology and Culture

3 Credit Hours

As the introductory course to the major in Science, Technology and Culture, this course explores the ways in which disciplines construct and represent the knowledge they generate.

LCC2108 - Sci,Tech & Enlightenment

3 Credit Hours

Considers the conceptual reformulation of the internal and external world urged by the sciences, technology, and culture of the Enlightenment.

LCC2110 - Science,Technology and Romanticism

3 Credit Hours

Examines the relationships among romantic ideology, science, and literature, including Romanticism's imaginative responses to Enlightenment science and the Industrial Revolution.

LCC2116 - Science, Technology, and Postmodernism

3 Credit Hours

Focuses on the relation among information technology, nonlinear physics, and the art, literature, and culture of postmodernism. Explores postmodern critiques of the Enlightenment and modernity.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC2200 - Introduction to Gender Studies

3 Credit Hours

This course introduces the cultural concept of gender, examining topics such as biology and gender, social constructions of gender, and the psychology and sexual roles.

LCC2210 - American Culture II

3 Credit Hours

Examines representations of the United States from its geographical expansion in the late-nineteenth century to the closing of the frontier and emergence as global power.

LCC2214 - Victorian Literature and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Investigates the period 1830-1901 in English literature and culture, focusing on how that period defined key questions, especially ones about human nature, society, and the relation of religion to science.

LCC2300 - Introduction to Biomedicine & Culture

3 Credit Hours

This course provides an introduction to central cultural topics in biomedicine, such as health care, medical practice, medical research, and the systems of cultural meaning within which ideas of health and disease circulate.

LCC2400 - Introduction to Media Studies

3 Credit Hours

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.

LCC2500 - Introduction to Film

3 Credit Hours

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

LCC2600 - Introduction to Performance Studies

3 Credit Hours

This course examines the origins of the field of performance studies in literary study of theater and drama, anthropological investigations of ritual, and sociological analyses of performance in everyday life.

LCC2661 - Theatre Production: Set Design and Construction

1 Credit Hours

Meeting times vary. Course carries 1 semester hour of credit.
In this "hands on" course, students learn theatrical construction and painting techniques while building scenery for DramaTech productions.

LCC2662 - Theater Production II: Lights, Properties, and Costumes

1 Credit Hours

Meeting times vary. Course carries 1 semester hour of credit.
In this "hands-on" course, students create the lighting, property, and costume effects for two DramaTech productions.

LCC2698 - Research Assistantship

1-12 Credit Hours

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LCC2699 - Undergraduate Research

1-12 Credit Hours

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LCC2700 - Introduction to Computational Media

3 Credit Hours

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

LCC2710 - Visual Culture and Design

3 Credit Hours

Studio-based course that provides students with the skills needed to create digital visual designs and to analyze designs from an historical and theoretical perspective.
Students are given design problems growing out of their reading and present solutions using Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash. Students also examine visual experience in broad terms, asking how images produce significance or meaning and how technology can be effective in creating and understanding images and vision? To address such questions, students consider the historical, artistic, and formal aspects of visual experience.

LCC2720 - Principles of Visual Design

3 Credit Hours

Studio-based course that provides students with basic skills needed to create digital visual images and to analyze designs from historical and theoretical perspectives.
Students will be given design problems growing out of their reading and present solutions using Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and 3DstudioMax or similar 3D application. Students will also examine visual experience in broad terms, from the perspectives of creators and viewers. The course will address a number of key questions including: Why is the act of drawing considered by numerous disciplines to be a cognitive and perceptual practice? How do images produce significance or meaning? What is the role of technology in creating and understanding images and vision? What is the difference between the intention of the creator and the interpretations of the viewers? How do images function as a "language"?

LCC2730 - Construction the Moving Image

3 Credit Hours

Provides the student with the conceptual, formal, aesthetic, and technical approaches to reconsider film, videos, and animation within the context of emerging digital forms.
Students learn to further the development of new, digital forms of the moving image by analyzing. mastering, and expanding its conventions. Students will engage in continual creation, experimentation, and analysis. This is a studio course, with regular design assignments and design critiques. The course includes work in montage editing, camerawork, storyboarding, advanced editing, streaming video, and interactive video.

LCC2813 - Special Topics in Science, Technology and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Study of one or more topics of current interest in the area of science, technology, and culture.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC2823 - Special Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies

3 Credit Hours

Examination of one or more topics of current interest in literary and cultural studies.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3102 - Science, Technology, and the Classical Tradition

3 Credit Hours

Explores the definition and transmission of science and technology within Greek, Arabic, and Medieval Latin contexts.
Course Attributes: Country and Region (IP), Humanities Requirement

LCC3104 - The Age of Scientific Discovery

3 Credit Hours

Examines the relationships among texts representing the literary, artistic, and scientific thought of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Course Attributes: Country and Region (IP), Humanities Requirement

LCC3106 - The Age of Scientific Revolution

3 Credit Hours

Examines interrelation of technological, literary, artistic, and philosophical thought in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Course Attributes: Country and Region (IP), Humanities Requirement

LCC3108 - Science, Technology, and Enlightenment

3 Credit Hours

Considers the conceptual reformulation of the internal and external world urged by the sciences, technology, and culture of the Enlightenment.

LCC3110 - Science, Technology, and Romanticism

3 Credit Hours

Examines the relationships among romantic ideology, science, and literature, including Romanticism's imaginative responses to Enlightenment science and the Industrial Revolution.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3112 - Evolution and the Industrial Age

3 Credit Hours

Connects later nineteenth century scientific and technological concepts and discoveries, particularly theories of evolution, to the literature and culture of the industrial age.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3114 - Science, Technology, and Modernism

3 Credit Hours

Explores a cross-section of technological, scientific, and cultural production characteristics of the first half of the twentieth century.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3118 - Science, Technology, and American Empire

3 Credit Hours

Considers nineteenth- and twentieth-century science and technology as they shaped American culture with particular attention to the relationship between science, technology, progress, and empire.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3202 - Studies in Fiction

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3204 - Poetry and Poetics

3 Credit Hours

A study of traditions of poetic practice and poetic theory in English, in conjunction with a weekly workshop session centered on the student's own poetry.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3206 - Studies in Communication and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Examines ways in which forms and media of communication create and are created by other cultural constructs.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3208 - African-American Literature and Culture

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3210 - Ethnicity in American Culture

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3212 - Women, Literature, and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Students in this course will analyze writings by women and examine feminist and other relevant cultural critiques of literature.
Course Attributes: Country and Region (IP), Humanities Requirement

LCC3214 - Science Fiction

3 Credit Hours

Examines science fiction texts from the last 200 years to show how they reflect ambiguous reactions to change.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3216 - Theater I: Classic and Medieval

3 Credit Hours

The dramatic literature, theory, performance practices, and historical and cultural context of the theater from prehistory through the Medieval period. This is NOT an acting class.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3218 - Theater II: Renaissance-Restoration

3 Credit Hours

The dramatic literature, theory, performance practices, and historical and cultural context of theater from the Renaissance through Restoration. This is NOT an acting class.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3219 - Literature and Medicine

3 Credit Hours

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

LCC3220 - Theater III: Modern-Contemporary

3 Credit Hours

The dramatic literature, theory, performance practices, and historical and cultural contexts of the theater from Modernism to our contemporary period. This is NOT an acting class.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3222 - Regionalism in American Literature

3 Credit Hours

Explores the literary and cultural representations of a particular American region or locale (the South, the West, California, New York City, etc.) and the role such representations have played in the formation of both regional and national identity.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3224 - Gender Studies

3 Credit Hours

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

LCC3225 - Gender Study in the Disciplines

3 Credit Hours

This course 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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3226 - Major Authors

3 Credit Hours

An examination of the works and career of a major author in historical and cultural context.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3228 - Shakespeare

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3234 - Creative Writing

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite(s) Engl 1102 This course explores a range of creative literary genres, and combines study and analysis of existing modes of one or more forms in order to establish a basis for original creative work by class members.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3252 - Studies in Film and Television

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2400 or LCC 2500

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3254 - Film History

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2500 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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3256 - Major Filmmakers

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3257 - Global Cinema

3 Credit Hours

This course examines significant movements, styles, and trends in world cinema, with an emphasis on how the global nature of contemporary film affects cultural representation. "

LCC3262 - Performance Studies

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2600

An examination of cultural theories of performance and their application to the analysis of specific performative events.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3302 - Science, Technology, and Ideology

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Country and Region (IP), Humanities Requirement

LCC3304 - Science, Technology, and Gender

3 Credit Hours

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

LCC3306 - Science, Technology, and Race

3 Credit Hours

Examines specific historical and contemporary constructions of race, within the prevailing scientific theories and ideologies in order to determine the role played by "race" in scientific and technological culture.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3308 - Environmentalism and Ecocriticism

3 Credit Hours

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

LCC3310 - The Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry

3 Credit Hours

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

LCC3314 - Technologies of Representation

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3316 - Science, Technology, and Post-colonialism

3 Credit Hours

Surveys the development of Post-colonial literary theory and historiography in order to analyze the interdependent discourses and practices of post-Enlightenment science/technology and European imperialism.
Course Attributes: Country and Region (IP), Humanities Requirement

LCC3318 - Biomedicine & Culture

3 Credit Hours

Discusses the history of biology and medicine; popular representations of health, disease, and the medical establishment; and the cultural implications of medical imaging technologies.
Course Attributes: Ethics Requirement, Humanities Requirement

LCC3352 - Film Technology

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2500

Examines the development of film technology and the implications of that technology for cinema's treatment of technology.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3362 - Science, Technology, and Performance

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2600

Examines contemporary theories of performance in relation to the production of scientific knowledge and technologies of representation.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3400 - Tech Communication

1 Credit Hours

Exposes students to the concepts and principles that drive technical communication. Students will learn about technical communication by studying principles that influence this genre of document production.

LCC3401 - Technical Communication Practices

2 Credit Hours

Class meets 2 hours per week and carries 2 semester hours of credit. Designed to introduce students to the types of documents and communication abilities required by their future professions, the course focuses on an understanding of both visual and verbal rhetoric in application to technical documents.

LCC3402 - Graphic and Visual Design

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100 or LCC 2400

Introduction to fundamentals of graphic and visual design of print and digital media. Familiarity with use of the World Wide Web, page layout, and computer graphic software is recommended.

LCC3404 - Designing for the Internet

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100 or LCC 2400

An introduction to the theory and practice of effective communication on the Internet through the design of documents for the World Wide Web.

LCC3406 - Video Production

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100 or LCC 2400

An introduction to video production including basic skills in storyboarding, scripting, filming, editing, and sound.

LCC3408 - The Rhetoric of Technical Narratives

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100

Focuses on the rhetorical problems posed by such narrative documents as technical proposals, recommendation reports, grant proposals, and marketing studies. Emphasis on document design, graphics, navigation systems, and editing.

LCC3410 - The Rhetoric of Nonlinear Documents

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100

Focuses on the rhetorical problems posed by hypertext documents. Emphasis in designing for multiple audiences, page and document design, and navigation in a nonlinear environment.

LCC3412 - Communicating Science and Technology to the Public

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100

Examines both the theoretical and practical issues involved in communicating scientific and/or technological material to a variety of lay audiences.

LCC3502 - Ancient and Medieval Literature and Culture

3 Credit Hours

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.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3504 - Renaissance Literature and Culture

3 Credit Hours

An examination of literature and culture from 1450 to 1650 with an emphasis on both major achievements and divergent voices.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3506 - Enlightenment Literature and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Examines the nature of the age from an initial boldness, optimism, and faith in reason to a recognition of its limits.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3508 - American Culture I

3 Credit Hours

American literature from the Puritan period through the Civil War, including major movements, key authors and texts, and study of literary works within broader historical and cultural context.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3510 - American Culture II

3 Credit Hours

Examines representations of the USA from its geographical expansion in the late nineteenth century to the closing of the frontier and emergence as global power.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3512 - British and Continental Romanticism

3 Credit Hours

Examines British and Continental Romanticism as it appeared during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3514 - Victorian Literature and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Investigates the period 1830-1901 in English literature and culture, focusing on how that period defined key questions, especially ones about human nature, society, and the relation of religion to science.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3516 - Literary and Cultural Modernism

3 Credit Hours

A partial investigation of the aesthetic ferment that characterizes English language cultural production from the turn of the century to the end of World War II.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3518 - Literary and Cultural Postmodernism

3 Credit Hours

A survey of major themes, representational techniques, and social and cultural concerns of postmodern art and literature.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3661 - Theater Production III: Management

1 Credit Hours

Meeting times vary. Class carries 1 semester hour of credit.
In this "hands-on" course, students will create and execute a publicity campaign and operate the box office for DramaTech productions.

LCC3662 - Theater Production IV: Acting

3 Credit Hours

Meeting times vary. Class carries 1 semester hour of credit.
This course provides students an opportunity to perform on stage in a production at DramaTech. Auditions are required.

LCC3705 - Principles of Information Design

3 Credit Hours

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.
Students examine the principles and practices that guide the development of emerging digital genres such as multimedia newspapers, interactive television, and networked cultural archives. Emphasis is on maximizing the use of the computer to expand the expressiveness of digital media as a means of organizing and communicating complex information. Students will learn principles of information abstraction and presentation and apply them to concrete projects, including database-driven applications, structured documents, and standardized systems of representation. Design analysis will draw on cultural critiques and design methodologies from multiple disciplines, including graphic design, computer programming, and rhetoric.

LCC3710 - Principles of Interaction Design

3 Credit Hours

Examines principles of design for shaping the procedural and participatory affordances of digital environments, emphasizing the role of cultural context and media transitions.
Students learn how to understand the issues involved in applying computational abstractions to culturally complex processes, to apply participatory conventions of digital and legacy media to the design of digital artifacts, and to analyze and critique their own and others' designs for their effectiveness in creating the experience of agency for the interactor. Students also examine the history and development of key conventions of interaction, and the role of multiple disciplines (HCI, graphic design, industrial design, cultural criticism) in guiding interaction design. They apply the principles of interaction design to artifacts in several genres (e.g. tools, games, web pages, installations, virtual reality), and apply an iterative design methodology and quick prototyping to problems in interaction design.

LCC3813 - Special Topics in Historical

3 Credit Hours

Special Topics in Historical

LCC3823 - Special Topics in Literature and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Examination of one or more topics of current interest in literary and culture studies.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3833 - Special Topics in STAC

3 Credit Hours

Study of one or more current issues in science, technology, and culture.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3843 - Special Topics in Communication

3 Credit Hours

Examination of one or more topics of current interest in commuication studies.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3853 - Special Topics in Film

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2500

Examines ine or more current topics in film studies
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC3863 - Special Topics in Performance

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2600

Examination of one or more topics of current interest in performance studies.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC4100 - Seminar in Science, Technology, and Culture

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100

A capstone seminar to the major, this course will ask students to draw upon their training in order to engage topical issues in the cultural studies of science.

LCC4102 - Senior Thesis

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2100

Preparation for and writing of a thesis through faculty-directed independent study.

LCC4200 - Seminar in Literary and Cultural Theory

3 Credit Hours

Concentration on a single literary or cultural theorist and/or a major school of literary or cultural theory. Schools of theory that will be considered include, among others, Materialist, Feminist, Structuralist, Post-Structuralist, and Cultural Studies.

LCC4204 - Poetry and Poetics II

3 Credit Hours

Advanced study of the traditions of poetic theory and practice with a special emphasis on processes of poetic conception and revision.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC4300 - Seminar in Biomedicine&Culture

3 Credit Hours

This course offers an opportunity to investigate in-depth biomedical issues, biomedical concerns in a particular period, or the impact of technological development on biomedicine.

LCC4400 - Seminar in Media Studies

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2400

Offers an in-depth investigation of the historical development and cultural impact of different forms of media including television, film, and interactive electronic applications.

LCC4402 - Basics of Multimedia Design

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2400

Introduces students to client and user needs and technology assessments, the interactive design process, and creation of proof-of-concept applications using Macromedia Director.

LCC4404 - Advanced Design and Production

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 4402

Intensive studio course dealing with advanced concepts and techniques of the design and production of interactive multimedia.

LCC4406 - Professional Communication

3 Credit Hours

Intended primarily for students planning careers in professional communication, this course will alternate among a number of issues including intellectual property law, integrating print and electronic media, and cultural studies of corporate environments.

LCC4500 - Seminar in Film Studies

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2500

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

LCC4600 - Seminar in Performance Studies

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2600

An in-depth investigation of a specific issue or theme in performance studies.

LCC4602 - Performance Practicum

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: LCC 2600

Practical experience and theoretical investigations in theater and performance including acting, directing, designing, playwriting, performance art, performance, and new media.

LCC4698 - Research Assistantship

1-12 Credit Hours

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LCC4699 - Undergraduate Research

1-12 Credit Hours

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LCC4700 - Undergrad Thesis Writing

2 Credit Hours

This course presents principles of researching, effective writing, editing and oral presentation skills as students complete undergraduate thesis research and produce the thesis.

LCC4720 - Interactive Narrative

3 Credit Hours

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.
Students create their own interactive narratives as a means of exploring and expanding the representational power of the form. The goal of this course is to further the development of this new storytelling medium by analyzing, mastering, and expanding the conventions of narrative structure that make for expressive and coherent form. Students will analyze existing stories and create their own interactive narratives. This is a studio course, with regular assignments and design critiques.

LCC4725 - Game Design as a Cultural Practice

3 Credit Hours

Emphasis is on the design elements common to games and the expressive possibilities and cultural concerns specific to digital games.
Students analyze games as cultural artifacts and gameplay as a patterned cultural experience similar to theater, music, and other participatory creative activities. The emphasis is on the design elements common to games, from ancient board games to computer games, and the expressive possibilities and cultural concerns specific to digital games. The course includes theoretical readings and close analysis of specific games. The course will consider the primary theoretical contexts for understanding games, including anthropological, biological, sociological, aesthetic, and literary frameworks. It will include the close analysis of influential and representative games from ancient times to the present, and will engage students in design exercises and in the creation of original digital games.

LCC4730 - Experimental Media and Digital Art

3 Credit Hours

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.
Students examine the conceptual, formal, aesthetic and technical basics of creating and analyzing digital, artistic artifacts in areas of: virtual, augmented and mixed reality; ubiquitous and distributed computing; networks; tangible objects; physical and physiological computing; social computing; information and scientific visualization; and artificial intelligence. The course includes analysis, experimentation, creation, and critique of artistic projects and short analytical papers. Numerous areas of converging and diverging issues among artistic and scientific knowledge bases will be explored, in order to understand how emerging technologies and critical practices may offer us ways to reshape and rethink the world.

LCC4731 - Game AI

3 Credit Hours

Examines expressive possibilities of artificial intelligence techniques in computer games.
Through a series of programming intensive projects, students learn AI programming techniques for games and how different AI techniques strongly interact with game design. Methods explored include agents, strategic and tactical AI (including group behavior), and machine learning. In addition to competing reading assignments and programming projects, students analyze a number of games in terms of the effects that various AI methods have on the player experience.

LCC4732 - Intelligent Story Systems

3 Credit Hours

Examines AI-based approaches to representing, understanding, and generating stories.
Students examine artificial intelligence (AI) approaches for representing, understanding, and generating stories with the aim of understanding how AI methods can play a role in interactive stories. Methods and representations covered include story grammars, character plans and behaviors, modeling thematic structure, author models, drama management, and representations of rhetorical effects. Project based assignments involve modifying existing story generation and understanding frameworks, as well developing the content for and implementing an interactive and/or generative story.

LCC4811 - Special Topics

1 Credit Hours

Topics of current interest not covered in the regular course offerings.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC4812 - Special Topics

2 Credit Hours

Topics of interest not covered in the regular course offerings.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC4813 - Special Topics

3 Credit Hours

Class and credit hours equal last digit in course number. Topics of current interest not covered in the regular course offerings.
Course Attributes: Humanities Requirement

LCC4904 - Internship

1-6 Credit Hours

Credit hours to be arranged.
Offers students a workplace-based learning experience that stresses application of principles and skills gained in other STC classes.

LCC4906 - Special Problems

1-21 Credit Hours

Credit hours to be arranged.
Study of specialized aspects of literature or cultural studies selected on the basis of current interest.