MCM Courses 2009-2010

 

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FALL 2009 Courses

 

MCM0100  |  Screens and Projections:  Modern Media Cultures  |  Rosen  |  MW 12:00-12:50 plus discussion section | An introduction to key forms that constitute media in modern culture:  photography, film, recorded sound, print, television, video, and digital media.  We will examine the materials of such media, and produce critical accounts of them as representational forms as well as  aesthetic, social, and/or political  practices.  Our discussions will be structured by major theoretical concepts and approaches.  Students MUST register for the lecture section and the screening. A sign up-sheet will be available for conferences after the first class meeting.

MCM0710  |  Introduction to Filmmaking: Time and Form  |
  Thornton  | 
T 1:00-3:50  |  
The basic technology of film practice, including cameras, simple lighting, sound recording, and editing. Students produce a series of short, non-sync films. No previous experience or skills are required. Screenings, demonstrations and studio work. Prerequisites: two MCM core courses or equivalent. Application required.  Application is available in the MCM office or from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/. Students must bring a completed application to  the first class to be considered for admission. Class list will be posted  2 days  after the first  class meeting. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor ’s permission required. S/NC.

MCM0720  |   Intermediate Filmmaking: Cinematic Space   |  Thornton  | 
W 2:00-4:50  | Introduces more sophisticated film production techniques, including sync sound and lighting technique. Explores the influence of digital technologies on cinematic practice. Studio work supplemented by screenings, demonstrations, and discussions. Group and individual projects. Prerequisite: MCM 0710.
Application required. Application is available in the MCM office or from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/. Students must bring a completed application to  the first class to be considered for admission. Class list will be posted  2 days  after the first  class meeting. Enrollment limited to 12. Instructor ’s permission required. S/NC

MCM0730  |  Introduction to Video Production: Critical Strategies and Histories   |  Cokes  |  R 2:00-5:30  |  Provides the basic principles of video technology and independent video production through a cooperative, hands-on approach utilizing small format video (Mini DV). Emphasizes video as a critical intervention in social and visual arts contexts. Prerequisites: two MCM core courses or equivalent. Application required.  Application is available in the MCM office or from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/. Students must bring a completed application to  the first class to be considered for admission. Class list will be posted  2 days  after the first  class meeting. Enrollment limited to 12.  Instructor’s permission required. S/NC.


MCM0750  |  Digital Art 
Tribe  T 3:00-6:50   | What would Andy Warhol’s Facebook page look like? What would John Cage have done with an iPod? This introductory production course combines history, theory, and practice to explore the intersection of art and digital technologies. Examples of student work include a 3D model of a cybercafe for Google Earth, a Dadaist video game, and an iTunes visualizer that creates customized music videos based on song lyrics. Theoretical readings include Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, and Raymond Williams.

MCM0800E |  Race and Imagined Futures  |  Chun |  W 3:00-5:20  | Why is race so important to imagining utopian or dystopian futures-to signaling world peace or Malthusian disaster? What do these imaginings tell us about contemporary anxieties over / desire for multiculturalism and globalization?  This course responds to these questions by examining speculative, science and utopian fiction and films by African-, Asian- and Euro-American authors/film makers.  Readings will be theoretical, as well as literary. Enrollment limited to 20.

MCM0900U  |  Face-to-Face:  The Filmed Interview  |  Paige Sarlin  |  TR 10:30-11:50  | Interrogating the filmed interview in film and on TV, this class will consider a range of theoretical approaches to the shaping of  questions and answers, reading texts from Plato to Deleuze.  In  addition, we will examine the practices of Errol Morris, Jon Stewart, Michael, Moore, and Oprah Winfrey - as well as Jean-Luc Godard and Alexander Kluge. For those interested in media production and journalism, this course will also include opportunities to experiment with various interview techniques. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite - one of the following:  MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110.

MCM0900V  |  Interpretation as Detection  |  Matthew Tierney  TR 10:30-11:50  | How is a reader like a detective? Comparing interpretation to investigation, we read novels, films, and theory about detectives, but also about matters beyond genre, including desire, authorship, and knowledge. Seeking the transgressive aspects of seductive objects, our gumshoes (from Dupin to Derrida, Marlowe to Moran, Barthes to Beaumont) explore the ethical imperatives and dead alleys of pursuit and self-pursuit. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite - one of the following:  MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110.

MCM1201C  |  Imagined Networks, Glocal Connections  |  Chun  |  TR 1:00-2:20  | This course examines emergent "imagined networks" (anti-globalization activists, youtubers, second lifers, NGOs) fostered by new media technologies and applications.  Emphasis will be placed on understanding the changing  relationship between the local and the global, and how "glocal" phenomena affect national and personal identities.   Readings will be theoretical, historical, political and literary. Enrollment limited to 50. Prerequisite -one of the following:  MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110.

MCM1201D  |  Hitchcock  |  Silverman  TR 2:30-3:50  |  Beginning with the provincial successes of his British productions (1927-1939) we will trace the director's increasingly playful mastery and subversion of the dominant Hollywood studio style, and his construction of "Hitchcock" as a veritable brand-name for authorship, control and calculated disturbance. A wide range of films, from THE LODGER to MARNIE. Close attention to classic analyses: Bellour, Edelman, Elsaesser, Mulvey,  Ranciere, Wollen, Zizek, etc. Enrollment limited to 50. Prerequisite - one of the following:  MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110.

MCM1201L  |  Cinema - Mobility - Travel  |  Groening  TR 9:00-10:20  |  What is it about the journey and mobility that is so appealing to filmmakers and the film industry? Is the concurrent rise of mass tourism and cinema accidental? If the moving image is the quintessential modern aesthetic experience, can mobility be considered the modern social imperative? What systems or linkages allow images, films and people to travel between social, cultural, and economic, contexts? Drawing from a wide range of film theorists as well as a diverse set of films, including travelogues, ethnographies, avant-garde pieces, Hollywood spectaculars, and the work of indigenous filmmakers, this course explores the links between physical movement and the virtual mobility provided by the image. Enrollment limited to 50. Prerequisite - one of the following: MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110.

MCM1500DContemporary Film Theory  |  Rosen  |  F 2:00-4:20  | Major arguments in film theory from the late 1960s to the present, contextualized by contemporaneous intellectual tendencies and selected films.  Some key issues: cinematic specificity and signification,  the politics of form and style, subjectivity/spectatorship, gender/sexuality, postmodern media, digital theory and cinema.    Readings from figures such as Baudry, Bordwell, Deleuze, Doane, Elsaesser, Gunning, M. Hansen, Heath,, Jameson, Koch, Manovich, Metz, Mulvey,  Pasolini,  Rodowick, L.Williams, Willemen, Wollen, etc. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite: one MCM core course. Preferences given to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. All others seeking permission, must attend the first class.

MCM1501O  |  Television, Gender, Sexuality  Joyrich  |  R 1:00-3:20  | This course investigates how television produces and reproduces constructions of gender and sexuality through its institutional form (as it maps relations between the public and the private, the domestic and the social, the inside and the outside), narrative patterns (as it circulates family romances, links gender and genre, and mediates sexual and social tensions), and spectatorial relations (as it variously addresses viewers as sexed and gendered subjects, consumers and commodities, familial and defamiliarized viewers). Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite - one of the following:  MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110.  Preferences given to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. All others seek permission from the instructor.

MCM1502T  | Film Noir:  Femmes Fatales, Urban Space, and Paranoia  |  Doane  W 3:00-5:20  | An examination of film noir, concentrating on the classic films of the 1940s and 1950s, but also investigating film noir’s relation to German Expressionism as well as remakes and reincarnations of the genre such as Blade Runner.  We will discuss various methodologies: psychoanalysis, ideological analysis, close textual analysis, the historiography of noir.  Films by Lewis, Tourneur, Wilder, Hawks, Lang, Pabst, Welles, Preminger, Hitchcock, Ray.  Readings in Copjec, Zizek, Naremore, Dimendberg, Vernet, Jameson. Enrollment limited to 20.  Primarily for MCM senior concentrators and MCM graudate students; other qualified students must obtain permission from the instructor.

MCM1502U  |  Media and Memory:  Representing the Holocaust  |  Joyrich  | T 1:30-3:50 | The Holocaust has been described as unimaginable, at the limits of representation. Yet there have been numerous attempts to imagine and represent it, across media (film, television, graphic novels), genres (documentary, melodrama, comedy, fantasy), and modalities (through history and memory, "high" and "low" culture, fiction and nonfiction, reporting and marketing).  Considering such attempts to represent the unrepresentable and "mediate" the immediacy of trauma, this course will explore media texts and theoretical/philosophical reflections on the Holocaust. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite - one of the following: MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110. Preferences given to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. All others seek permission from the instructor.

MCM1700D  |  Documentary Production Reframed: Concepts, Methods, and Questions  |  Cokes  W 10:30-1:50  | An advanced seminar for students of video and/or film production. Focuses on the critical discussion and production of documentary. A major project (10-20 minutes) and in-class presentations of work-in-progress required. Readings on the theory and practice of the form and selective screenings augment the presentation of student work. Prerequisite: one of the following:  MCM 0720 or MCM 0740. Application required.  Application is available in the MCM office or from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/. Students must bring a completed application to  the first class to be considered for admission. Class list will be posted  2 days  after the first  class meeting.
Enrollment limited to 20.  Instructor’s permission required. S/NC.

MCM1700P  |  Radical Media |  Tribe  |  W 10:00-1:50pm  Walter Benjamin wrote that in the age of mechanical reproduction art ceases to be based on ritual and “begins to be based on another practice--politics.” What is the relation between art and politics in an age of digital distribution? This production seminar examines historical examples of radical media art from Dada to Hacktivism, developing a critique of these practices based on readings including Hakim Bey, Bertolt Brecht, and Critical Art Ensemble. Students respond to this material by producing media art projects.

MCM 1970 Directed Research: Modern Culture and Media
Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.

MCM 1990 Honors Thesis/Project in Modern Culture and Media
Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course. Eighth semester students only.

MCM2100G | Freud and Lacan   |  Doane  |  R 4:00-6:20  | Readings of major texts by Freud and Lacan will stress the relations between language, subjectivity and sexuality and the feminist use and/or critique of psychoanalytic concepts. We will also look at texts by other theorists (e.g. Melanie Klein, Heinz Kohut) and investigate the clinical implications of various approaches. Familiarity with semiotic and poststructuralist theory required. Enrollment limited to 20. Primarily for MCM graduate students; other qualified graduate students and MCM seniors must obtain permission from the instructor.

MCM2100H  | History of Theory:  Historicism vs. Psychoanalysis  |  Weed  |  T 4:00-6:20  | An examination of the often heated debates between two major branches of cultural criticism: the Foucaultians and the Lacanians. We will look at what is at stake in the debates and ask to what extent the thinking of Foucault and Lacan did and did not converge.  Readings include Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Copjec, Butler, Laclau, Zizek, etc. Enrollment limited to 20. Permission required for undergraduates only. All students seeking permission must attend first class.

MCM2500B  | Mourning and Melancholy:  Readings in Psychoanalysis and Politics  |  Silverman  |  M 3:00-5:20  | We will examine a range of films, poetry, painting and theoretical texts in order to describe a range of affective conditions which function as responses to loss and trauma, both public and private. Melancholy will be read both as a cause for and hindrance to political action. Texts by Freud,Benjamin, Arendt, Kristeva, Derrida, Butler and others; films by Godard, Kotai, Wajda, Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Sirk, Wyler, Bilge Ceylan and others. Enrollment limited to 20. Permission required for undergraduates only.

MCM 2980 Independent Reading and Research in Modern Culture & Media
Indivisual reading and research for doctoral candidates. Not open to undergraduates. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the Registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.

MCM 2990 Thesis Preparation
For Graduate students only

 

Fall 2009 Crosslisted Courses

English
ENGL 1760C Body and Event in Contemporary Fiction
ENGL 1900D Literature and Politics
ENGL 1900E Aesthetics and Politics
ENGL 1900I Critical Methodologies: Contemproary Literary Theory
ENGL 2900H Queer Passivity
French
FREN 1150C French Cinema: The First Fifty Years

 

 

 

 

Spring 2010 Courses

 

MCM0150  |  Text/Media/Culture:  Readings in Theory  |  Silverman  |  TR 2:00-2:50 plus discussion section  | An introduction to the theoretical foundations of contemporary cultural criticism. We will study those theories of language and representation, signification and textuality, narrative and image, fantasy and ideology, and modernity and postmodernity that have been crucial to understanding modern culture and media texts (including literary, photographic, film, television, and digital media texts).  Readings will range from the work of such scholars as Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Marx, and Freud to Barthes, Fanon, Irigaray, and Butler. Students MUST register for the lecture section and the screening. A sign up-sheet will be available for conferences after the first class meeting.

MCM0230  |  Digital Media  |  ChunMW 11:00-11:50 plus discussion section  | This course introduces students to the study of digital media.  Moving from its popular mass forms to alternative artistic installations, from cyberpunk fiction and movies to facebook.com, we will study the aesthetics, politics, history and theory of digital media.  Special attention will be paid to its relation to social/cultural formations (gender, sexuality, race, global flows). Students MUST register for the lecture section and the screening. A sign up-sheet will be available for conferences after the first class meeting.

MCM0260  | Introduction to Cinematic Coding and Narrativity  |  DoaneMW 1:00-1:50 plus discussion section  | Examination of the structural and ideological attributes of cinema, concentrating on the dominant narrative model developed in the American studio system and alternatives to that model.  Emphasis on contemporary theories of cinematic representation.  Students become conversant with specific elements and operations of the cinematic apparatus (e.g. camera, editing, soundtrack) and its production of discursive meanings. Students MUST register for the lecture section and the screening. A sign up-sheet will be available for conferences after the first class meeting.

MCM0710  | Introduction to Filmmaking: Time and Form  |  Thornton  | 
T 1:00-3:50pm  | The basic technology of film practice, including cameras, simple lighting, sound recording, and editing. Students produce a series of short, non-sync films. No previous experience or skills are required. Screenings, demonstrations and studio work. Prerequisites: two MCM core courses or equivalent. Application required. Application is available in the MCM office or from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/. Students must bring a completed application to  the first class to be considered for admission. Class list will be posted  2 days  after the first  class meeting. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor ’s permission required. S/NC.

MCM0730  | Introduction to Video Production: Critical Strategies and Histories  |  Cokes  |  R 2:00-5:30  | Provides the basic principles of video technology and independent video production through a cooperative, hands-on approach utilizing small format video (Mini DV). Emphasizes video as a critical intervention in social and visual arts contexts. Prerequisites: two MCM core courses or equivalent. Application required.  Application is available in the MCM office or from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/. Students must bring a completed application to  the first class to be considered for admission. Class list will be posted  2 days  after the first  class meeting. Enrollment limited to 12. Instructor’s permission required. S/NC.

MCM0740  | Intermediate Video Production: Sound, Image, Duration  Cokes  |  W 10:30-1:50pm  |  Expanded principles of independent video production utilizing small format video (Mini DV). Emphasizes video as a critical intervention in social and visual arts contexts. A major project (10-20 minutes) and a class presentation concerning your project are required. Prerequisite: MCM0 730. Application required. Application is available in the MCM office or from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/. Students must bring a completed application to the first class to be considered for admission. Class list will be posted 2 days after the first class meeting. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor’s permission required. S/NC.

MCM0900W  |  Media And/As Ethnography  |  Pooja Rangan  |  T 4:00-6:20  | Why do we call on technology to distinguish the human from the sub-human, and culture from nature?  And conversely, why do we designate some mediums as more “natural” or “closer to the real” (like photography, film, sometimes TV) and others as more “machinic” (print, digital media)?  How have different media impacted the way we discriminate between those with and without writing/history/media/technology?  Engaging discourses of ethnography across multiple media, we will consider the shifting definitions of what comprises a “people” (ethnos), and what we understand by “writing” (graphie), ranging from traditional anthropology’s interest in the racial and ethnic “other” to the more recent curiosity about “other others” such as the animal, the child, and nature.  Topics include:  auto/ethnographic documentary, visual anthropology, biopolitics, activist youth media, animal art, digital ethnography, posthumanity, and real-time weather tracking technologies. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite – one of the following: MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110. Students MUST register for a filming/screening, and a lecture section.

MCM1200D  | African Cinema  |  Rosen  |  TR 1:00-2:20  |  Subsaharan African cinemas 1960-present, primary emphasis on narrative films.  We will analyze cultural and aesthetic strategies, (cinematic style, narrative, and subjects). in the context of postcolonial African and international film histories.  Themes include: anticolonial resistance/nationalist ideologies; third cinema/international art cinemas; oral aesthetic culture and cinematic style; political critique (e.g., gender, state politics); media globalizationand resistence; the struggle for a mass audience. Enrollment limited to 50. Previous coursework in MCM, Africana Studies, or related areas highly recommended.

MCM1201H  | Feminist Debates Weed  |  TR 10:30-11:50  |  Political theorist Susan Okin’s 1997 article “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” launched debates that continue a decade later.  We will examine arguments between supporters of Western liberal views on practices such as veiling and female circumcision and those who criticize the liberal approach. Readings: Okin, Brown, Mahmood, Nussbaum, Scott and others. Enrollment limited to 50.  Prerequisite:  one related MCM course or feminist theory course.

MCM1201M  |  Surveillance: Paranoid Cinema, Reality TV, and Technologies of Seeing  |  Groening  TR 2:30-3:50  |  The introduction of visual technologies that record and reproduce two-dimensional moving images is key to a new form of disciplinary power. Through the use of these recording technologies, the practice of surveillance has aided the state in its quest to control its subjects and prevent criminal behavior. Alongside the widespread use of these technologies, a series of films portraying conspiratorial fantasies of government surveillance emerged from 1970s Hollywood. These films not only depict surveillance; they rely on those very same devices that enable surveillance. Additionally, the recent ascendancy of the reality television genre has reanimated questions of privacy and publicity in the popular consciousness; what were once thought of as issues only pertinent to government secrets and espionage have become vital social issues which shape the way will we think about the relationship between the individual and society. This course will investigate the prevalence of surveillance technologies and examine their implications for fundamental issues in film theory as well as our social, political, and cultural future.Enrollment limited to 50. Prerequisite - one of the following: MCM 0100, MCM 0150, MCM 0230, MCM 0240, MCM 0250, MCM 0260, MCM 1110.

MCM1502V  | Theories of the Body and the Limits of Constructionism
Weed  |  T 4:00-6:20  | Scholars currently argue that cultural constructionism went too far, that theories of subjectivity that dominated the academy for over two decades neglected the materiality of the body. We will examine these criticisms as well as what it means to theorize the body. Readings include Merleau-Ponty (phenomenology), Freud and Dolto (psychoanalysis), Damasio (neurology), Fausto-Sterling (biology), Butler, Grosz, Kirby, Moore, Wilson, etc.  Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite: one related MCM course.

MCM1502W  | Late Godard Silverman  |  R 4:00-6:20  | Using HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA as a fulcrum we will examine a range of film and video by Jean-Luc Godard made between 1989 and the present. Emphasis on work, such as JLG/JLG and L'ELOGE DE L'AMOUR, which undertake the construction of a self-identified relation between Godard and the cinematic machine: as editor, actor, critic, and witness. Attention will be paid to his work with Anne-Marie Mieville. Writing by Bellour, Daney, MacCabe, Ranciere and others. Enrollment limited to 20. Limited to juniors, seniors and graduate students. All others seek permission from the instructor.

MCM1700N  Open Source Culture  Tribe  T 3:00-6:50 |  Where do we draw the line between sampling and stealing? This course explores the tension between artistic appropriation and intellectual property law, considering open source software as a model for cultural production. We will trace a history of open source culture from Cubist Collage and Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades through Pop art and found footage film to Hip Hop and video mashups. Students give presentations and produce media art projects. Readings include Rosalind Krauss, Nicholas Bourriaud, and Yochai Benkler.

MCM1700R  |  Curatorial Practices  |  Tribe  |  W 10:00-1:50pm  | It is sometimes said in contemporary art circles that curators are the new artists. Curating involves a wide range of activities, including research, selection, critical writing, and presentation. This production seminar considers curatorial practice as a form of authorship. Particular attention is paid to questions of audience and institutional context. Readings include Mieke Bal, Douglas Crimp, Okwui Enwezor, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Students give presentations on recent exhibitions and curate their own shows.

MCM1700S  | Narrative and Immersion   |  Thornton & Winkler   | R 2:00-4:50 | Narrative and Immersion is a production course examining the potentials for engagement in new media installations. The course draws on techniques of narrative to establish engagement in immersive environments. Students will be introduced to cinematic concepts, interactive technologies, multi-channel video and surround sound environments.
Classes meetings will consist of viewing and analysis of exemplary work, discussion of readings, and critiques of student projects. An additional 1-hour technical workshop will be devoted to learning Jitter. Class members should have completed advanced work in film/video, digital sound, and/or creative writing. Open to upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students. The final
class list will be determined after the first class meeting, by permission of instructor.

MCM 1970 Directed Research: Modern Culture and Media
Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.

MCM 1990 Honors Thesis/Project in Modern Culture and Media
Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course. Eighth semester students only.

MCM2120C  | Cinema, State Violence and the Global   |  Rosen  |  F 2:00-4:20  | Theoretical and political conceptions of state and global violence posed against the theory and history of cinema, as representational apparatus and as institution. Special attention to the establishment of film as global medium around World War I; current issues around the global, state, and biopower;"postmodern media culture;" etc. Readings from sociopolitical theorists (e.g. Weber, Schmitt, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, Hardt and Negri, etc.) and media scholars/theorists (e.g. Virillio, Prince, L. Williams, Miller, etc.) Enrollment limited to 20. Permission required for undergraduates only.

MCM2310G  | Cultural Studies and the Problem of Form  |  Rooney  |  W 3:00-5:20  | This course examines the emergence and contemporary practice of “cultural studies” with a focus on concepts of form.  We will consider cultural studies critiques of disciplines, canons, and the aesthetic; the politics of form; theories of reading and spectatorship; “popular” and “mass” forms; and competing definitions of culture as form arising in fields from visual and media studies to postcoloniality and queer theory.  Readings from Williams, Hall, Mulvey, Althusser, Spivak, Deleuze, Hartman, Agamben, Sedgwick, Galloway. Enrollment limited to 20. Permission required for undergraduates only. All students seeking permission must attend first class.

MCM2500C  | Media Archaeology  |  Chun  |  M 6:30-9:00  | Provides an intellectual history of "Media Archaeology," focusing on contributions by the "Sophienstraße" departments of Humboldt University in Berlin and on the importance of Marshall McLuhan and Michel Foucault, amongst others, to its development.  Readings in Friedrich Kittler, Wolfgang Erst, Cornelia Vismann. Enrollment limited to 20. Permission required for undergraduates only.

MCM 2980 Independent Reading and Research in Modern Culture & Media

Indivisual reading and research for doctoral candidates. Not open to undergraduates. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please see the Registration staff for the correct section number to use when registering for this course.

MCM 2990 Thesis Preparation
For Graduate students only

 

Spring 2010 Crosslisted Courses

English
ENGL 1560Y The Ethics of Romanticism
ENGL 1900R Queer Relations: Theories of Subjectivity and Community
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
TSDA 1690 Performance, Art and Everyday Life