Examines the transformative impact of various kinds of media on culture, politics, communication, and education.

Explores in depth a theoretical issue central to film and/or television. Among its concerns are authorship, genre history, spectatorship, ideology, narrative theory, and the relationship between these media and social history. [This section focuses on fantasy modes in televisual storytelling including over broadcast, cable, streaming, video, and other longform platforms.]

Relation to other courses, programs and curricula: As the introductory course to the LMC Science, Technology and Culture thread, this course explores the way in which disciplines construct and represent the knowledge they generate.

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

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

This course examines significant movements, styles, and trends in fact-based film, emphasizing its cultural implications and formal strategies.

This course is intended to guide undergraduate students from all disciplines through the stages of writing their undergraduate thesis.

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