An examination of the origins of the field of performance studies in literary study of theatre and drama, anthropological investigations of ritual, and sociological analyses of performance in everyday life.

This course introduces students to workplace document genres to develop visual and verbal skills in critical analysis and document development.

Examines ways in which forms and media of communication create and are created by other cultural constructs.

Examines ways in which forms and media of communication create and are created by other cultural constructs.

Basic principles of generating creative concepts, dramatic structure, character and dialogue development, and formatting for stage and screenplays.

The heightened and sensitized perception that arises through studying film—an opportunity to slow things down, to take great care, to replay film moments that give rise to feelings—suggests how film can be a microcosm and model for how we learn and live. This iteration of Intro to Film, built specifically for Georgia Tech-Europe students, teaches the foundational elements of cinema (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound) through canonical examples of French and European films. Through embodied and cinematic experience that draws upon the region’s culture, students will have the opportunity to compare film—an art that combines space and time—with traveling.

Explores historical, cultural, and theoretical issues related 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.

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.

Examines science fiction texts from the last 200 years to show how they reflect ambigous reactions to change.

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