Current Courses

Making Media Courses (also indicated with a # symbol below)

Thinking Media/Studies

Undergraduate (SPRING 2025)

COML/ENGL/GERST/MUSIC/PMA/SHUM 2703: Thinking Media - Roger Moseley

Graduate (SPRING 2025)

ANTHR 6400/GERST 6405/MUSIC 6400/PMA 6400: Thinking Media Studies - Erik Born, Natasha Raheja

 

Media Studies Minor Colloquium

PMA 2000 (SPRING 2025): Media Studies Minor Colloquium - Sabine Haenni

 

FALL 2025

NOTE: Courses are only listed under the parent course department.

 

Anthropology

#ANTHR 3110, ANTHR 6110, PMA 3510, PMA 6510: Documentary Production Fundamentals - Natasha Raheja

Architecture

#ARCH 8151: Design Topic Research Studio III: Matter Design Computation - Farzin Lotfi-Jam

#ARCH 8151: Design Topic Research Studio III: Matter Design Computation - Jenny Sabin

Art

#ART 3015, ART 5105, PMA 5105: Instructions for Art: Text Scores in Art, Music and Performance - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike

#ART 3699, ART 5699: Photography: Special Topics: Future Photography - Michael Ashkin

#ART 3705, ART 5705: Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Sound - Keith Obadike

History of Art

ARTH 2500, VISST 2500: Introduction to the History of Photography - Andrew Moisey

ARTH 4545, ARTH 6545: The Photobook - Andrew Moisey

Asian Studies

ASIAN 2211: Introduction to Japan - Andrew Campana

ASIAN 3317: Japanese Poetry - Andrew Campana

ASIAN 6622, COML 6622: Asia, Theory, Critique - Arnika Fuhrmann

Comparative Literature

COML 2241, SHUM 2241: Game of Thrones: Multi-Media Fantasies - Andrea Bachner

COML 2723, FGSS 2723, VISST 2723: Digital Feminism and Race - Naminata Diabate

Communication

COMM 3800: Television in the Digital Age - Katherine Sender

COMM 4777: Advertising and Society - Brooke Duffy

COMM 6800: Studies in Communication - Katherine Sender

Design Tech

#DESIGN 6151: Design and Making Across Disciplines I - Laura Gonzalez, Marirena Kladeftira, Jenny Sabin, Lawson Spencer

Literatures in English

ENGL 3753: Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde - Anna Shechtman

ENGL 4710, ENGL 6171, MEDVL 4170, MEDVL 6170: The Archaeology of the Text from Chaucer through the Renaissance - Andrew Galloway

German Studies

COML 3113, GERST 3545, MEDVL 3545, PMA 3545, VISST 3545: Imagining the Middle Ages: Films, Games, and Media - Erik Born

GERST 6655, PMA 6655: Media Philosophy - Erik Born

Information Science

INFO 1200, STS 1201: Information Ethics, Law, and Policy - Daniel Susser, Gili Vidan

#INFO 4240, INFO 5240, STS 4240: Designing Technology for Social Impact - Christopher Csíkszentmihályi

#INFO 4940, INFO 6940: Special Topics in Information Science: Human Centered Design and Engaged Media - Jon McKenzie

INFO 6940: Special Topics in Information Science - Karen Levy

Music

#MUSIC 1421: Introduction to Computer Music - Kevin Ernste

AMST 2232, FGSS 2232, LGBT 2232, MUSIC 2232: Queer Pop from the Stonewall Uprising to the Millennium - Judith Peraino

ANTHR 3318, FGSS 3318, LGBT 3318, MUSIC 3318, PMA 3418: Virtual Music - Nic Vigilante

MUSIC 4252, MUSIC 6252: Pop Music in the Archive: Researching Subcultures of the Recent Past - Judith Peraino

#MUSIC 4412, MUSIC 6412: Making Sound Futures - Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

#MUSIC 7111: Composition - Kevin Ernste, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

Performing and Media Arts

PMA 2100: Introduction to Performing and Media Arts - Juan Aldape Munoz, Kristen Warner

COML 2512, PMA 2512: Contemporary World Cinema - Sabine Haenni

AAS 2623, AMST 2622, PMA 2621: Introduction to Asian American Performance and Media - Christine Balance

AMST 2160, ENGL 2160, FGSS 2160, PMA 2660, VISST 2160: Television - Nick Salvato

AMST 3812, PMA 3441, VISST 3812: Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles - Sabine Haenni

PMA 3467: Women Audiences in Film and Television - Kristen Warner

#PMA 3570: Film and Video Production I - Jeffrey Palmer

#PMA 3571: Documentary Filmmaking - Jeffrey Palmer

#PMA 4000: Senior Studio - Mendi Obadike

PMA 4711, PMA 6711: Camp: Aesthetics and Politics - Nick Salvato

ASRC 6402, PMA 6402: Black Film and Media Studies - Samantha Sheppard

Spanish

LATA 4666, LATA 6666, SHUM 4666, SHUM 6666, SPAN 4666, SPAN 6666: Specters of Latin America - Irina Troconis

Science & Technology Studies

STS 2031: Global History of Data - Yu Wang

INFO 4561, SHUM 4561, SOC 4560, STS 4561: Evaluation and Society - Malte Ziewitz

 

SPRING 2025

NOTE: Courses are only listed under the parent course department.

 

Anthropology

#ANTHR 4401, ANTHR 7401, PMA 4401, PMA 7401: Advanced Documentary Production - Natasha Raheja

Art

#ART 3104, ART 5104, PMA 3104, PMA 5104: Sound, Music, Public Space - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike

#ART 3699, ART 5699: Photography: Special Topics: Image Work - Dan Torop

#ART 3699, ART 5699: Photography Special Topics: The Photographic Imagination - Michael Ashkin

Asian American Studies

AAS 3020, AMST 3025, PMA 3420: Asian Americans and Popular Culture - Christine Balance

AAS 6100: Graduate Proseminar in Asian American Studies - Christine Balance

Asian Studies

ASIAN 6681, COML 6681: Systems Theory and Asia Critique - Shaoling Ma

City & Regional Planning

CRP 6690: Special Topics in History and Preservation: Mega-events and Urban Space - Jennifer Minner

Classics

CLASS 1812: Classics and Comics - Courtney Roby

ARKEO 2812, CLASS 2812, LING 2212, NES 2812, SHUM 2812, STS 2812, VISST 2812: Hieroglyphs to HTML: History of Writing - Athena Kirk

ARTH 6711, CLASS 4711, CLASS 7711: Traveling Seminar: Greek Sculpture in Context - Verity Platt, Annetta Alexandridis

Communication

COMM 3800: Television in the Digital Age - Katherine Sender

COMM 4292, FGSS 4292: Sexual Identities and the Media - Katherine Sender

COMM 4940: Special Topics in Communication: Global Media Entertainment - Wunpini Mohammed

COMM 6830: Qualitative Research Methods in Communication - Brooke Duffy

Comparative Literature

COML 3017: Written on the Body - Andrea Bachner

ASRC 3977, COML 3977, ENGL 3977, FGSS 3977, FREN 3975, SHUM 3977: Body Politics in African Literature, Cinema, and New Media - Naminata Diabate

Computer Science

CS 1340, INFO 1260: Choices and Consequences in Computing - Karen Levy, Jon Kleinberg

Design Tech

#DESIGN 6152: Design and Making Across Disciplines II - Jenny Sabin, Laura Gonzalez, Lawson Spencer

History of Art

ARTH 3550, ARTH 6550, LATA 3680, LSP 3551: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 3600, ARTH 6600, VISST 3600: Contemporary Art: 1960-Present - Iftikhar Dadi

ARTH 4155, ARTH 6155, LATA 4155, LATA 6155, VISST 4155, VISST 6155: Topics in Latin American Art: Latin American Moderinsims and Technology - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 4540, ARTH 6540: Film History for Art Historians - Andrew Moisey

Information Science

INFO 4250: Surveillance and Privacy - Daniel Susser

INFO 4260, INFO 5260, STS 4260: Computing On Earth: Planetary Dimensions and Consequence of Computing - Steve Jackson

#INFO 4940: Special Topics in Information Science: Technology and Social Change Practicum - Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

#INFO 4940: Special Topics in Information Science: Producing Culture About, With, and Through Tech - Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

#INFO 5940: Special Topics in Information Science: Technology and Social Change Practicum - Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

INFO 6561, STS 6561: Technologies of Valuation - Malte Ziewitz

INFO 6940: Special Topics in Information Science: Red Tape: The Media of Bureaucracy - Gili Vidan

Italian

ITAL 2204: The Cinematic Eye of Italy - Timothy Campbell

Jewish Studies

AMST 2790, JWST 2790, PMA 2490, VISST 2790: Jewish Films and Filmmakers: Hollywood and Beyond - Elliot Shapiro

Literatures in English

#ENGL 3741, INFO 6940, SHUM 3741: Design Thinking, Media, and Community - Jon McKenzie

ENGL 3753: Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde - Anna Shechtman

ENGL 4700: Reading the Media of Joyce's Ulysses - Jeremy Braddock

ENGL 4771: Social Media and Contemporary Literature - Lindsay Thomas

ENGL 4780: Truth and Media: Searching for Epistemological Certainty - Anna Shechtman

ENGL 6525: Modernism, Media, and Mediation - Jeremy Braddock

Music

AMST 1312, MUSIC 1312: History of Rock Music - Judith A. Peraino

MUSIC 4313, MUSIC 6313: Music and Sound Studies - Benjamin Piekut

#MUSIC 4421, MUSIC 6422, PMA 4422, PMA 6422: Technology in Music Performance - Kevin Ernste, Warren Cross

#MUSIC 7111: Composition - Kevin Ernste, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

Performing and Media Arts

COML 3261, PMA 3550, VISST 3175: Global Cinema and Media - Samantha Sheppard

#PMA 3570: Film and Video Production I - Jeffrey Palmer

PMA 3684: Critical Listening Strategies: Lessons From Sound Art - Mendi Obadike

PMA 4403: Black Cult Media - Kristen Warner

PMA 4501, PMA 6501: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Theory - Sabine Haenni

Science & Technology Studies

INFO 4940, STS 3940: AI and Storytelling - Andrew Piper

STS 4020, STS 6020: Science, Medicine, and Media Technologies in East Asia - Yu Wang

Society for the Humanities

ASIAN 4703, ASIAN 6703, BSOC 4703, BSOC 6703, SHUM 4703, SHUM 6703, STS 4703, STS 6703: The Glitch: Errors, Disability, and the Edges of Digital Media - Andrew Campana

Spanish

SPAN 3570: Spanish Photography - Patricia Keller

Visual Studies

AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, COML 2000, VISST 2000: Introduction to Visual Studies - Andrew Moisey

FALL 2024

American Studies

AMST 2006: Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal - Judith A. Peraino

AMST 2760: American Cinema - Sabine Haenni

AMST 3463: Contemporary Television - Samantha Sheppard

AMST 3745: Parody - Nick Salvato

Anthropology

#ANTHR 3110: Documentary Production Fundamentals - Natasha Raheja

#ANTHR 6110: Documentary Production Fundamentals - Natasha Raheja

Architecture

ARCH 3819: Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism: Archi Pop - Medina Lasansky

ARCH 4408: Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism: Archi Pop - Medina Lasansky

ARCH 5819: Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism: Archi Pop - Medina Lasansky

ARCH 6408: Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism: Archi Pop - Medina Lasansky

#ARCH 8151: Design Topic Research Studio III: Matter Design Computation - Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Archaeology

ARKEO 2700: Introduction to the Classical World in 24 Objects - Verity  Platt

Art

#ART 2601: Photography: Introduction to Photography - Dan Torop

ART 3199: Theory and Criticism: Special Topics: Black Sound and Visual Culture - Keith Obadike

#ART 3699: Photography: Special Topics: Images and Algorithms - Dan Torop

#ART 3705: Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Sound - Keith Obadike

ART 3804: Black Sound and Visual Culture - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike

ART 5199: Theory and Criticism: Special Topics: Black Sound and Visual Culture - Keith Obadike

#ART 5699: Photography: Special Topics: Images and Algorithms - Dan Torop

#ART 5705: Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Sound - Keith Obadike

ART 5804: Black Sound and Visual Culture - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike

History of Art

ARTH 2200: Introduction to the Classical World in 24 Objects - Verity  Platt

ARTH 2500: Introduction to the History of Photography - Andrew Moisey

ARTH 3650: History and Theory of Digital Art - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 4153: Topics in Feminist Media Arts: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 4545: The Photobook: Tutorial - Andrew Moisey

ARTH 6153: Topics in Feminist Media Arts: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 6545: The Photobook: Tutorial - Andrew Moisey

ARTH 6653: History and Theory of Digital Art - Maria Fernandez

Asian Studies

ASIAN 2282: Speculative Asias - Shaoling Ma

Africana Studies & Research Center

ASRC 2235: New Visions in African Cinema - Naminata Diabate

Classics

CLASS 2700: Introduction to the Classical World in 24 Objects - Verity  Platt

Comparative Literature

COML 2006: Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal - Judith A. Peraino

COML 2235: New Visions in African Cinema - Naminata Diabate

COML 2282: Speculative Asias - Shaoling Ma

COML 3115: Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics - Tim Murray

COML 3261: Global Cinema and Media - Sabine Haenni

COML 4281: Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media - Jon McKenzie

COML 6791: Acoustic Horizons - Tim Murray

Communication

COMM 2200: Media Communication - Brooke Duffy

COMM 4260: Gender and Media - Brooke Duffy

City & Regional Planning

#CRP 3850: Special Topics in Planning: Circular Cities & Research to Action - Jennifer Minner

#CRP 3850: Special Topics in Planning: Mapping and Countermapping - Wenfei Xu

#CRP 5850: Special Topics in Planning: Circular Cities & Research to Action - Jennifer Minner

#CRP 5850: Special Topics in Planning: Mapping and Countermapping - Wenfei Xu

Literatures in English

ENGL 2006: Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal - Judith A. Peraino

ENGL 2761: American Cinema - Sabine Haenni

ENGL 2935: New Visions in African Cinema - Naminata Diabate

ENGL 3115: Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics - Tim Murray

ENGL 4705: Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media - Jon McKenzie

ENGL 6791: Acoustic Horizons - Tim Murray

Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

FGSS 3740: Parody - Nick Salvato

FGSS 4153: Topics in Feminist Media Arts: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts - Maria Fernandez

FGSS 4260: Gender and Media - Brooke Duffy

FGSS 6153: Topics in Feminist Media Arts: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts - Maria Fernandez

FGSS 6312: Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination - Roger Moseley, Judith Peraino

German Studies

GERST 3555: Comics as a Medium - Erik Born

GERST 6445: German Media Theories - Erik Born

Information Science

INFO 1200: Information Ethics, Law, and Policy - Gili Vidan, Daniel Susser

INFO 3660: History and Theory of Digital Art - Maria Fernandez

INFO 4240: Designing Technology for Social Impact - Chris Csíkszentmihályi

#INFO 4940: Special Topics in Information Science: How LLMs work, their potential and limitations - David Mimno

INFO 4940: Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media - Jon McKenzie

INFO 5240: Designing Technology for Social Impact - Chris Csíkszentmihályi

#INFO 6620: Social Research Design and Method - Karen Levy

#INFO 6940: Special Topics in Information Science: How LLMs work, their potential and limitations - David Mimno

INFO 6940: Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media - Jon McKenzie

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies

LGBT 3740: Parody - Nick Salvato

LGBT 6312: Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination - Roger Moseley, Judith Peraino

Music

#MUSIC 1421: Introduction to Computer Music - Kevin Ernste

MUSIC 2006: Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal - Judith A. Peraino

MUSIC 4241: Historical Keyboarding - Roger Moseley

#MUSIC 4412: Making Sound Futures - Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

MUSIC 6241: Historical Keyboarding - Roger Moseley

MUSIC 6312: Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination - Roger Moseley, Judith Peraino

#MUSIC 6412: Making Sound Futures - Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

#MUSIC 7111: Composition - Kevin Ernste, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

Performing and Media Arts

PMA 2100: Introduction to Performing and Media Arts - Nick Salvato

PMA 2435: New Visions in African Cinema - Naminata Diabate

PMA 2560: American Cinema - Sabine Haenni

PMA 3463: Contemporary Television - Samantha Sheppard

PMA 3464: Representational Ethics in Film and Television - Kristen Warner

#PMA 3510: Documentary Production Fundamentals - Natasha Raheja

PMA 3515: Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics - Tim Murray

PMA 3550: Global Cinema and Media - Sabine Haenni

PMA 3555: Comics as a Medium - Erik Born

#PMA 3570: Film and Video Production I - Jeffrey Palmer

#PMA 3571: Documentary Filmmaking - Jeffrey Palmer

PMA 3740: Parody - Nick Salvato

PMA 3804: Black Sound and Visual Culture - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike

PMA 5804: Black Sound and Visual Culture - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike

#PMA 6510: Documentary Production Fundamentals - Natasha Raheja

PMA 6550: Global Cinema and Media - Sabine Haenni

Romance Studies

ROMS 3115: Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics - Tim Murray

Society for the Humanities

SHUM 2006: Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal - Judith A. Peraino

SHUM 3555: Comics as a Medium - Erik Born

Spanish

SPAN 3710: Latin American Documentary - Irina Troconis

Science & Technology Studies

STS 1201: Information Ethics, Law, and Policy - Gili Vidan, Daniel Susser

STS 3650: History and Theory of Digital Art - Maria Fernandez

STS 4240: Designing Technology for Social Impact - Chris Csíkszentmihályi

STS 6312: Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination - Roger Moseley, Judith Peraino

STS 6445: German Media Theories - Erik Born

Visual Studies

VISST 2300: American Cinema - Sabine Haenni

VISST 2500: Introduction to the History of Photography - Andrew Moisey

VISST 3115: Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics - Tim Murray

VISST 3175: Global Cinema and Media - Sabine Haenni

VISST 3463: Contemporary Television - Samantha Sheppard

VISST 3555: Comics as a Medium - Erik Born

VISST 3650: History and Theory of Digital Art - Maria Fernandez

VISST 4153: Topics in Feminist Media Arts: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts - Maria Fernandez

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