Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Introduces a discursive framework for media, design and cultural interfaces enabling students to interpret, negotiate, and engage with new media with an awareness of the significance of cultural and contextual difference. Assessment is based on written and project work. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course introduces a discursive framework for art, design, culture and technology enabling students to interpret, negotiate, and engage with media with an awareness of the significance of cultural and contextual difference. We begin with a characterization of 'new media' and proceed to set this within an overview of relevant theoretical and critical approaches from post-modern and post-colonial theory. We will raise questions of access and democracy in the context of globalization. Throughout the course, we will engage in a dialogue that will include students personal reflections, arguments and perspectives. At the completion of this course, students will have gained an ability to interpret, negotiate and engage with media in diverse settings, with an awareness of the significance of cultural difference. Assessment is based on written and project work.

Note: This is a writing­‐intensive course, which means that academic reading and writing will be foregrounded as part of the learning process.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

The aim of this course is to help you develop an understanding of the cultural and social specificity of forms, contents, contexts at the junction of art, design, culture and technology. After finishing this course, you will be able to:

- Understand and reiterate key critical and theoretical.

- Apply these approaches across a range of culturally-­‐specific new media scenarios.

- Synthesize the approaches and case studies to develop a position on the utility of a new discursive framework for media practices in a global setting.

- Critically assess major concepts and apply them to your own writing practice.

You will demonstrate your mastery of these concepts by participating in discussions, through weekly close reading and writing exercises, by developing a collaborative presentation and by writing a formal essay.

Grading

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

All required readings and resources will be provided.