Spring 2019 - IAT 206W D100
Media Across Cultures (3)
Class Number: 5911
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 3 – Apr 8, 2019: Tue, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Surrey -
Exam Times + Location:
Apr 14, 2019
Sun, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
Surrey
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Instructor:
Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda
gacevess@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
Completion of 21 units.
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:
Media across cultures introduces undergraduate SIAT students to foundational literature reflecting on interdisciplinary approaches to art, media, technology, and design. It builds from theoretical and historical references in science and technology studies and broader societal implications of technologies. The course will enable students to interpret and engage contemporary media, art, and design with an awareness of the significance of the cultural, political and social difference. The course will be a reading-writing intensive combination of lectures and workshops that will provide students with the opportunity to develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills as a foundation for future research in media and design practices.
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:
This course aims to help students develop an understanding of the cultural, social, political and ethical specificity of forms, contents, and contexts at the junction of art, design, media, and technology.
-Demonstrate an understanding of key theoretical and historical debates on interdisciplinary approaches to art, media, technology, and design.
- Apply and evaluate these approaches across a range of culturally specific new media, design, and art scenarios.
- Analyze and synthesize these approaches and case studies to develop a position within the discursive framework and apply these approaches to your writing practice.
Grading
- Reading Quizzes 30%
- Group Presentations 15%
- Term Paper Proposal 10%
- Term Paper Lit Review 10%
- Term Paper Peer Review 10%
- Final Term Paper 25%
NOTES:
This is a draft version of the grading and assignment breakdown. A final version will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Materials
MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:
“Science, technology, and society: a sociological approach” by Wenda K. Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant, and Sal Restivo. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. 2006 )
“Keywords for media studies,” edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray (New York: New York University Press 2017) Online Book Available through SFU Library
REQUIRED READING:
“Science, technology, and society: a sociological approach” by Wenda K. Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant, and Sal Restivo. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. 2006 )
ISBN: 0631232095 978063123
“Keywords for media studies,” edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. (New York: New York University Press 2017) Online Book Available through SFU Library
Registrar Notes:
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