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Week
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Dates |
Topic
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Assignments
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Readings Due
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1
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Introduction
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8/18
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Class Overview
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8/20
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Class Discussion: What is Media?
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8/22
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Historical Periods |
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2
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Semiotics
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8/25
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Intro to Semiotics |
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8/27
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Class Discussion: Semiotic Analysis of Media |
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8/29
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On the Strength of Signifieds |
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3
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Construction and Regulation of Space
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9/1
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Holiday |
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9/3
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Renaissance Perspective |
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9/5
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Some Approaches to Space in Videogames |
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4
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Modernism in Art
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9/8
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The Breakdown of Perspectival Space in Early Modernism |
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9/10
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High Modernism |
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9/12
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Class Discussion: Modernism |
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5
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Mechanical Reproduction
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9/15
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View: Steal this Film II |
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9/17
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Class Discussion: "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" |
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9/19
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Radio |
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6
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Modernism and Technology | |||
9/22
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View: Metropolis | |||
9/24
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View: Metropolis |
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9/26
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Discuss: Themes of Modernism |
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7
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Film and Television
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9/29
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Historical Overview of Film |
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10/1
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Aestheticization of Politics |
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10/3
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Cultural Effects of Television |
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8
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Design and the Creative Process
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10/6
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Design Concepts |
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10/8
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Color Theory |
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10/10
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Discuss:
Design and Creative Process |
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9
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Propaganda and Shock
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10/13
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Holiday |
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10/15
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Propaganda |
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10/17
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Photoshop Workshop |
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10
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Postmodernism
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10/20
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View: The Matrix |
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10/22
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Themes of postmodernism
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10/24
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Review: Student Propaganda Posters |
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11
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Postmodern Politics
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10/27
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Class Discussion: Ecstasy of Communication |
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10/29
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Postmodernism in Media: Entertainment, Advertising and War |
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10/31
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Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism |
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12
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Digital Media
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11/3
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Janet Murray |
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11/5
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Remediation |
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11/7
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Class Discussion: Digital Media Theory |
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13
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Digital Culture
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11/10
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Remix Culture |
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11/12
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Networks and Society |
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11/14
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Class Discussion: Digital Culture |
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14
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Videogames
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11/17
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Overview of Videogame Theory and Practice |
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11/19
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Formal Videogames |
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11/21
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Political Videogames and Class Discussion |
Assignment #5 Topic pick due today. | ||
15
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Review and Discussion
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11/24
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Watch Media / Discuss |
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11/26
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Watch Media / Discuss |
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11/28
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Thanksgiving Holiday |
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16
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Report Week
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12/1
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Student Reports |
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12/3
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Student Reports |
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12/5
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Student Reports |