Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Category Archives: IMA Electives (Legacy Structure – Seminar/Studies)
Courses that count in IMA’s Seminar/Studies category
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
Listening: Noise, Sound and Music (MCC-UE 1717)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
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
Global Cult/Identities (MCC-UE 1401)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
War as Media (MCC-UE 1351)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Copyright, Commerce and Culture (MCC-UE 1405)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
New Media Research Studio (MCC-UE 1029)
Media & Identity (MCC-UE 1019)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Mass Persuasion and Propaganda (MCC-UE 1014)
This course presents a critical analysis of the development, principles, strategies, media, techniques, and effects of propaganda campaigns from ancient civilizations to modern technological society. The course focuses on propaganda in the context of government, religion, revolution, war, politics, and advertising, and explores implications for the future of propaganda in the cybernetic age.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2020)
MCC-UE 1014-000 (12423)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
MCC-UE 1014-000 (14107)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Political Communication (MCC-UE 1013)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Thu
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Thu
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Media Audiences (MCC-UE 1016)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Intro to Digital Media (MCC-UE 1003)
This course is an introduction to digital media, focusing on networks, computers, the Web and video games. Theoretical topics include the formal qualities of new media, their political dimensions, as well as questions of genre, narrative, and history.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Space and Place in Human Communication (MCC-UE 1002)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Art Artist & Social Change (ASPP-UT 1002)
4 points – will count toward general education requirements (Humanities) Social, political, and economic upheavals produce shattering transformations in human life, yet some of the most significant artistic works in literature, visual arts, theatre, film, and music have been created under these extreme circumstances. The focus of this course is on developing an interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the arts, artists, and the artists’ response as a catalyst for social and political change. We will explore the history of various practical crises and examine how they have influenced art and artists. Some of the examples include the works of Czechoslovakian films during Soviet Occupation, Protest Theatre during Apartheid South Africa, Shostakovich’s Trio during Soviet Era, underground music scene in present day Iran, Cindy Sherman’s photography in the USA, Croatian artist Sanjan Ivekovic and Bangali writer Taslima Nasrin’s. We will also look at some examples of propaganda artists and their work as well, artists like Morteza Avini in Iran and Liu Wenxi of China. By investigating the artist’s understanding of political, social, and economic forces that impact upon art and their own lives we will examine this question: What are the complex dynamics that are involved in the emergence of movements in the arts?
Ctr for Art, Society & Pub Pol (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Art & Public Policy All School Seminar:: Contemporary Art from the Americas: Aurality, Soun Contemporary Art from the Americas: Aurality, Soun (ASPP-UT 1000)
In many political movements, the festive emerges as a major force shaping alternative social practices, forms of gathering, being together, and moving together. These alternative modes of being in collectivity are actively redefining the political. This sense of collectivity becomes particularly evident in the aesthetics of the Global South and its Diasporas. Consequently, this course explores the festive’s role in forming political movements beyond the traditional scope that reduces it to a simple byproduct of social life. It also explores how the pandemic has forced us to reimagine what coming together means. Taking Latin American and Caribbean aesthetics as an initial case, this seminar engages in a detailed interpretation of performances that challenge traditional definitions of both the festive and the political. A wide range of performance practices, such as carnival parties, sound systems, cabaret shows, popular dance styles, artworks, organized slave riots, and indigenous uprisings, shape the modes students will engage in theory and practice. For this course iteration, we will focus on questions around Black and Indigenous relations to carnival performance, structures of mutual aid as festive practice, and how they enact utopian modes of communal life, and how these modes of communal life redefine current understandings of art and politics. The class involves field trips, visits to several performance events, and conversations with artists and organizers who use the festive as a political tool to engage in political action in NYC. Questions regarding race, gender, and class will be directed to the philosophical, anthropological, and historical texts paying close attention to their involvement in the formation of colonial oppression. Performance studies’ methodologies will serve as the guiding mode to articulate these questions.
Class titles vary by section.