This course deals with the history of the art and science of cinematography. A working Director of Photography will relate a perspective that is unique and factual to a theoretical discussion, which is traditionally academic. Cinematography has a strong tradition of adapting its tools to enhance the storytelling experience. This course allocates as History & Criticism for Film & TV majors. COURSE SUBJECT TO DEPARTMENTAL FEES. “Non-majors must process a “Permission Notice for Non-Majors” form” to register for the course (subject to availability).
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Global Media Capstone (MCC-UE 1220)
Specifically for students in the Global Media Scholars program, this course is the required culminating experience taken in the senior year, alongside a travel component during the January term. Course topics reflect faculty research interests, offering students a chance to explore emerging issues in the field of media studies, and will be site-specific based on the country chosen for January travel.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
MCC-UE 1220-000 (8121)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Fleetwood, Nicole
Social Impact: Advertising for Social Good (MCC-UE 1051)
With the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of social movements like Black Lives Matter and #metoo, the field of social good advertising has rapidly expanded as brands seek social relevance, governments and nonprofits look to inform, and activists try to persuade. In this course, students will learn to plan and execute powerful social advertising campaigns, while thinking critically about the blurred lines between advertising and information, and branding and politics, in what Sarah Banet-Weiser calls “Shopping for Change.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
MCC-UE 1051-000 (14065)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Wed11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Railla, Jean
History of Computing (MCC-UE 1170)
This umbrella course focuses on specific time periods, technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. This course familiarizes students with the social forces and techno-cultural innovations that shaped the computing industry. Specific themes may include: personal computing; Cold War computing; computing and globalization; the quantified self; computational aesthetics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; computing and gender.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
MCC-UE 1170-000 (14061)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hassein, Nabil
Visual Culture/Science and Technology (MCC-UE 1411)
This course examines the imagery of science and technology, the role of visuality in the construction of scientific knowledge, artistic renditions of science, and the emergence of visual technologies in modern society. It looks at how visuality has been key to the exercise of power through such practices as cataloguing and identification; the designation of abnormality, disease, and pathologies; medical diagnosis; scientific experimentation; and the marketing of science and medicine. We will examine the development of the visual technologies in the emerging scientific practices of psychiatry and criminology; explore the sciences of eugenics, genetics, pharmacology, brain and body scans, and digital medical images of many kinds; the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the emerging politics of scientific activism.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
MCC-UE 1411-000 (14031)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Almenara, Maria Paz
Middle East Media (MCC-UE 1341)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Duration: 15 Weeks
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Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Inquiry Seminar (MCC-UE 1200)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Senior Honors in Media Culture/Communication (MCC-UE 1210)
Seminar for students who have been approved by the department to pursue honors in the major. Extended primary research in Communication Studies, focusing on the development and sharing of individual research projects. Students will enroll concurrently in two points of independent study under the director of a faculty honors sponsor, as outlined in departmental guidelines.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
MCC-UE 1210-000 (8057)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ali, Isra
Ethics and Media (MCC-UE 1028)
Students who plan on pursuing careers in the media (professional and academic) will be faced with difficulty choices that carry with them potent ethical repercussions, choices that practical training does not properly equip them to approach in a critical and informed manner. The purpose of this course is therefore twofold: 1) to equip future media professional with sensitivity to moral values under challenge as well as the necessary skills in critical thinking and decision making for navigating their roles and responsibilities in relation to them; and 2) honing those same skills and sensitivities for consumers of media and citizens in media saturated societies.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
MCC-UE 1028-000 (8303)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cormier, Robert
Ind Study (MCC-UE 1000)
Credits: 1-6
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
1-6 credits – 15 Weeks
Entertainment Law (MULT-UB 48)
This two-credit course is about key legal aspects of the entertainment industry. Entertainment law is not a separate legal discipline. There is really no such thing as entertainment law. Instead, it lies at the intersection of several areas of law and applies those disciplines to the diverse entertainment industry of products and services. The course will involve a foundational coverage of the following areas: contract, advertising, protection of ideas by contract, copyright and trademark (including the concepts of parody and fair use), rights of publicity and privacy, defamation, and artist representation. This course should prepare you to analyze a wide variety of entertainment law issues at a general level. Entertainment law does not tend towards an orderly system because it lacks overriding organizational principles that would tie together its myriad facets. As such, this course will appear to lack a logical outline in its progression and instead, will examine this corner of law in separate pieces, which will cover doctrine, analytical problem-solving, practical skills related to law (e.g., analytical writing, reasoning skills, argument structure, etc.), and the particular contexts in which issues arise in the entertainment industry. Dealing with more narrow topics, such as constitutional concerns or union representation, or obtaining a much deeper knowledge of specific topics discussed in class, will require additional, specialized study. This class also helps students further develop their reasoning, communication, and listening skills.
Multidisciplinary (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
MULT-UB 48-000 (10639)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
MULT-UB 48-000 (10725)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TV Nation: Inside and Out of The Box (FMTV-UT 1086)
TV Nation: Inside and Out of the Box gives students the opportunity to experience, first hand, how the world of network television works from two points of view: business and creative. Students will gain an understanding of the business aspect through the vantage point of the network executives and programmers. They will also learn the creative process from development to pitching, from the vantage point of writers and producers in the industry. In TV Nation, students will role play the entire process as the key players who put together a season for broadcast and cable networks. This course allocates as a Craft for Film & TV majors. COURSE SUBJECT TO DEPARTMENTAL FEES.
The Softness of Things: Technology in Space and Form (COART-UT 701)
Through a series of lectures and weekly prompts, this hands-on course introduces a methodology that facilitates the process from thinking to making. Softness is used as both a theoretical and material framework that asks students to rethink the edges of the real and to to engage with structures, organizations, materials and relationships as malleable, fluid, and open to transformation. Students are introduced to foundational concepts through a wide range of examples and readings, and are invited to critically reflect on how these concepts inform and guide their own practice and creative journey. The weekly assignments are meant to help students become comfortable with a variety of techniques and making practices, and in a rapid, playful and experimental manner engage with ideas in an embodied and enacted way. Given that they have a week to complete each assignment, the goal is to help students delve into the core and essential properties of each concept and find ways to express and explore them in their work. The cadence of the lectures and survey of a wide range of artistic practices aims to expose students to different approaches to making, and importantly help them understand how theory and practice are not separate realms but indeed intertwined.
Collaborative Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
COART-UT 701-000 (23562)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Thu 5:00PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington Square
Instructed by Papadopoulos, Despina
The Beat: (JOUR-UA 201)
This course is designed to hone the student journalist?s ability to research and report deeply and to be able to imagine and develop fresh ideas, test their ideas with the strength of their reporting and research, and then present them in story form.
Journalism (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Summer 2023)
JOUR-UA 201-000 (2398)05/22/2023 – 07/05/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Morning)at OnlineInstructed by Flaherty, Francis
JOUR-UA 201-000 (2491)06/06/2023 – 06/29/2023 Tue,Wed,Thu3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mihai, Adrian
Religions of India (RELST-UA 337)
Investigates religious developments in India within their historical context. Familiarizes students with the religions of the subcontinent—including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, and Judaism—through secondary source readings and English translations of primary source materials. Rather than survey religious traditions as closed systems divorced from time or place, students grapple with the central theories and historiographical challenges pertaining to religion in India, especially those that impact our ability to understand everyday religious experience, both past and present.
Religious Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
RELST-UA 337-000 (23005)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Film Story Analysis: (DWPG-UT 1105)
This text analysis course is designed to provide a platform for an in-depth study of how the story of a film is presented, what choices are made by the author, how information is offered or withheld and what effect this has on the drama. This class will be an “anthology” of different works, each selected for a different aspect of storytelling, exploring how the stylistic choices, themes, and dramatic devices reveal themselves within the body of work. The course is designed to better help students organize their own narratives by analyzing the techniques employed by various screenwriters in constructing their screenplays. A selection of films will be screened and discussed in terms of continuity of theme; delineation of plot, development of structure, protagonist’s story purpose, dialogue as action and character. After each screening, the instructor will lead a group discussion and analysis of the film, focusing further on the techniques, conventions and devices employed by the screenwriter to both tell a good story and satisfy the demands of the audience.
Introduction to Food History (FOOD-UE 1210)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Food Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Science in Our Lives: Biodiversity and the Earth (SCIED-UE 215)
In this course students explore the Earth as an integrated, dynamic system involving the material world and diversity of living things which we call biodiversity. Specifically, this course explores the flow of energy and materials through the Earth System and potential human impact on this system. Through the practices of science students learn to use data to produce scientific knowledge for themselves and the public while exploring the question of what it means to engage in citizen science.
Science Education (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
SCIED-UE 215-000 (11814)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Milne, Catherine
Global Works and Society in a Changing World (GWC-UF 102)
The second semester of Social Foundations spans a thousand years, from the rise of Islam and the reunification of China under the Tang dynasty (in the 7th century C.E.) through the Scientific Revolution and the decline of the Mogul empire in India. This course invites students to consider great ideas that have often helped earlier peoples organize their lives–but which have also set them in conflict, sometimes with other communities, sometimes among themselves. Such ideas have sparked movements for ethical and social reform, for conquest, for the recovery of lost classics, and for religious renewal.
Global Works and Society in a Changing World (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
GWC-UF 102-000 (13378)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13379)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13380)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22751)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13608)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22752)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13382)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13477)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22753)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22754)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13384)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13385)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22755)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22756)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13387)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13388)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13478)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13389)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13390)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13391)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13392)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13393)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13394)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13395)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13396)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13503)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13397)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13398)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13399)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13400)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13401)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13504)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13403)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13407)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13404)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13406)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13405)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13582)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13381)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13383)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13386)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13402)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22757)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Global Works and Society: Antiquity (GWA-UF 101)
The first semester of Social Foundations introduces students to the ancient world and ends with the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, of the Gupta Empire in India, and of the Han Dynasty in China. This course takes a global perspective and uses an interdisciplinary approach, and part of its aim is to explore enduring questions such as the relation between the individual and society, between justice and power, and between humanity and the divine.
Global Works and Society: Antiquity (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
GWA-UF 101-000 (12770)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Katz, Gal
GWA-UF 101-000 (12771)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Katz, Gal
GWA-UF 101-000 (12866)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Browning, Jacob
GWA-UF 101-000 (12772)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bonakdarian, Mansour
GWA-UF 101-000 (12786)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bonakdarian, Mansour
GWA-UF 101-000 (12787)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karavitis, Gerasimos
GWA-UF 101-000 (12803)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Browning, Jacob
GWA-UF 101-000 (12867)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wagnon, Daniel
GWA-UF 101-000 (12868)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hewitt, Anne
GWA-UF 101-000 (12869)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karavitis, Gerasimos
GWA-UF 101-000 (12870)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Altonji, Alexander
GWA-UF 101-000 (12871)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Prichea, Andreea
GWA-UF 101-000 (12872)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Prichea, Andreea