Topics of interest not covered in the regular course offerings.

A workshop-based introduction to screen acting and the acting profession for the student who is interested in participating in the film and television industries.

Introduces film techniques and vocabulary in an historical and cultural context. Written texts are supplemented by viewings of specific shots, scenes, and films.

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.

Examines specific historical and contemporary construction of race, within the prevailing scientific theories and ideologies in order to determine the role played by "race" in scientific and technological culture.

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

What happens when a play leaves the page and enters the body?

This course treats drama not only as literature to be read, but as an event to be performed, embodied, and experienced. Combining close reading with theatrical practice, students will move between seminar and studio, learning how meaning in drama emerges through voice, gesture, space, and collaboration. Through scene work, students will learn techniques of character development, objective-setting, and interpretation. At the same time, we will examine how plays engage urgent questions of identity, ethics, and social life, including illness and care, memory and trauma, and the structures that shape human experience.

No prior acting experience is required: only a willingness to experiment, collaborate, and take creative risks.

The period of New Hollywood (1967-1978) features independent young filmmakers (such as Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Alan Pakula, Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese) who created bold and transformative films (such as The Godfather, The Graduate, Jaws, The Last Picture Show, Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Klute, In the Heat of the Night, Three Days of the Condor) that arguably saved American cinema. The course will also fold in artists such as Elaine May, Barbara Loden, Barbara Kopple, and Claudia Weill—filmmakers whose generic and nonfictional practice work within while countering the now-canonical films of this period. Particularly important for Georgia Tech’s film students, the course privileges film history as alive, dynamic, and interactive. Incorporating oral histories, film reviews, student reflections, group projects, and scholarly assessments, “New Hollywood Now” shows why movies—and why these movies especially—matter. 

This course offers an introduction to the historical development and cultural impact of various forms of media print, radio, television, film, and interactive electronic applications.

Origins and development of contemporary popular music, including rock, trap, hip-hop, and other emerging and established forms.