Category Archives: Undergraduate

Courses for All IMA Students

Postcolonial Visual Culture (MCC-UE 1403)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

This class addresses how colonialism and postcolonialism are shaped and mediated through images and the gaze. The dynamics of colonial history motivate and shape colonial and postcolonial perceptions and influence their patterns of global circulation when the boundary between the world out there and the nation at home is increasingly blurred. Course surveys a range of image texts through various media (photography, television, cinema) and sites (war, the harem, refugee camps, prisons, disasters); nationalist mobilization, counter-insurgency, urban conflict, disaster management, the prison system, and the war on terror.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Political Rhetoric (MCC-UE 1800)

Looking at the rhetoric of public relations we examine the principles and assumptions in the process of analyzing the process of political campaigns. Focuses on an analysis of what is reported to the mass media and how the ’gatekeepers,’ reporters, editors and producers of news filer the messages. Also, discussion on how public relations participates in the creation of viewpoints that eventually become well established and widely held.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

General Elective Spring 2025 Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2021

Persuasion (MCC-UE 1808)

Analysis of factors inherent in the persuasive process, examination and application of these factors in presentations. Hours are arranged for student evaluation and practice.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2021)

MCC-UE 1808-000 (11476)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Strugatz-Seplow, Beth

MCC-UE 1808-000 (26067)at Washington SquareInstructed by

MCC-UE 1808-000 (26073)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Strugatz-Seplow, Beth

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Summer 2024

Interpersonal Comm (MCC-UE 1830)

The application of various systems of communication analysis to specific behavioral situations. Through the case-study method, students apply communication theories and models to practical, everyday situations.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 12 Weeks

Sections (Summer 2024)

MCC-UE 1830-000 (5313)at Washington SquareInstructed by

MCC-UE 1830-000 (5312)07/03/2024 – 08/15/2024 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kurlenkova, Aleksandra

MCC-UE 1830-000 (5721)07/03/2024 – 08/15/2024 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kurlenkova, Aleksandra

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Spring 2024

Amateur Media (MCC-UE 1024)

This course will track the various manifestations of media amateurism over time and medium, while also exploring theoretical concerns and cultural discourses that surround their work and social construction, especially in relation to notions of professionalism, community, networks, artistic practice, collectivism, and marginalization.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2024)

MCC-UE 1024-000 (11391)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Resendiz, Ramon

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate

Fashion and Power (MCC-UE 1345)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

This course examines fashion as a form of communication and culture. We examine how fashion makes meaning and how it has been valued through history, popular culture and media institutions, focusing on the relationship between fashion, visual self-presentation, and power. The course situated fashion both in terms of its production and consumption, addressing its role in identity and body politics (gender, race, sexuality, class), art and status, nationhood and the global economy, celebrity and Hollywood culture, youth cultures and subversive practices.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Interviewing Strategies (MCC-UE 1740)

Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu,Tue
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu,Tue,Mon

This course focuses on the principles and practices of successful interviewing techniques. Students are provided with background on the structure of an interview and learn how to analyze success and/or potential problems. Review of case studies and practice in holding interviews enables students to gain experience and to improve their own abilities.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 General Elective Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Innovations in Marketing (MCC-UE 1760)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Fri
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Fri,Tue
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Fri,Tue

This course is an analysis of changing trends in marketing ranging from corporate social responsibility to guerrilla and viral marketing. Discussion of theoretical concepts are applied through fieldwork and project-based learning. Guest lectures on emerging topics are featured.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2021

Argumentation and Debate (MCC-UE 1835)

An examination of the art of debate using current issues of public policy & social justice. Students will learn the skills of critical thinking, evidence evaluation & persuasion. Hours are arranged for fieldwork & student evaluation.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2021)

MCC-UE 1835-000 (11478)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Baker, William

MCC-UE 1835-000 (26076)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Baker, William

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate

Photography and The Visual Archive (MCC-UE 1517)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed

This course examines the role and history of photography within the historical landscape of media and communication. Special emphasis on the accumulative meaning of visual archives, tracing how images reconfigure and establish cultural territories across a variety of texts and media. Investigates and contrasts the mimetic visual strategies within western and nonwestern traditions, looking at historical and contemporary images in a variety of forms.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Listening: Noise, Sound and Music (MCC-UE 1717)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue

This course examines theories, technologies, and practices of listening in the modern world. How has our experience of sound changed as we move from the piano to the personal computer, from the phonoautograph to the mp3? How have political, commercial, and cultural forces shaped what we are able to listen to, and how we listen to it? Finally, how have performers, physiologists, and philosophers worked to understand this radical transformation of the senses?

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Print, Typography and Form (MCC-UE 1508)

An overview of the history and cultures of print. Examines typography communication and the persuasive power of print. Topics include print ’revolution’ in early modern Europe, printedness and the public sphere, as well as contemporary relationships between print and digital media. How are digital media making it possible to see new things about print? What can e-books tell us about books?

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

MCC-UE 1508-000 (8060)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Fri11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brideau, Katherine

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

War as Media (MCC-UE 1351)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon

This course examines the proposition that contemporary war should be understood as media. War has become mediatized and media has been militarized. This course treats war and political violence as communicative acts and technologies and focuses on how they shape our understanding and experience of landscape, vision, body, time and memory.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Global Cult/Identities (MCC-UE 1401)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

This course examines globalization as it is inscribed in everyday practices through the transnational traffic of persons, cultural artifacts and ideas. The course will focus on issues of transnational mobility, modernity, the local/global divide and pay specific attention to how categories of race, gender and ethnicity intersect with transnational change.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Marxism and Culture (MCC-UE 1402)

Explores the various political and philosophical debates within western Marxism. Pays particular attention to the influence of the cultural turn in twentieth century Marxist thought on feminism, postcolonialism, and theories of mediation. Themes include: the commodity, alienation and reification, surplus value, culture, ideology, hegemony and subjectivity.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

MCC-UE 1402-000 (8058)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Shamel, Salma

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

Copyright, Commerce and Culture (MCC-UE 1405)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

Examines the basic tenets and operative principles of the global copyright system. Considers the ways in which media industries, artists, and consumers interact with the copyright system and assesses how well it serves its stated purposes: to encourage art and creativity. Special emphasis on the social, cultural, legal, and political issues that have arisen in recent years as a result of new communicative technologies.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Media & Identity (MCC-UE 1019)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed

This course examines the relationship between mediated forms of communications and the formation of identities, both individual and social. Attention paid to the way mediated forms of communication represent different social and cultural groupings, with a particular emphasis on gender, race, ethnicity, class and nationality.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Spring 2026 Undergraduate