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