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THE INTERNET & GLOBALIZATION (CM2021)

This course provides a foundation in key theories and debates related to the Internet and its social, cultural, political and economic implications. We will explore a range of current digital practices and phenomena as well as some key stages in the development of today’s global technologies. Within the contexts of globalization, we will place particular emphasis on interrogating transformations made possible by the spread of digital media, but also restrictions and contestations that arise. Students are especially encouraged to examine their own digital media practices from these critical perspectives.

ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (CM2023)

This course examines online social networks -- from Facebook and Twitter to Google and YouTube – from a number of perspectives: sociological, economic, business, and political. Particular emphasis will focus on how online social networks have transformed the dynamics of personal interaction, organizational behavior, branding, political mobilization, and civic action.

DOCUMENTARIES IN ACTION: THE ART OF THE REAL (CM2032)

Course divided into theoretical and practical sections. The practical half of the course includes daily exercises in "hands-on" documentary research, scripting, sketching and shooting in the streets of Paris, with small video cameras, producing work that will then be critiqued in class. The theoretical component surveys the history of documentary film and different approaches to making documentaries.

COMMUNICATION THEORY & RESEARCH METH. (CM2051)

The skills learned in this course will prepare students for upper-division communication courses, and provide students with basic research methods in the field of communication. Students will become familiar with a range of research methods (survey, interview, ethnography, discourse, and political economy.

GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO (CM2080)

In this course, students will be introduced to graphic design history and graphic design principles. They will learn to apply these principles through hands-on exercises and projects, using both analog means and digital tools (Adobe Photoshop). No prerequisites.

TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONS (CM2091)

Topics vary every semester.
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INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE (CM2100)

This course considers the construction of the visual world and our participation in it. Through a transcultural survey of materials, contexts and theories, students will learn how visual practices relate to other cultural activities, how they shape identity and environmental basic ways, and how vision functions in correspondence with other senses.

GLOBAL FASHION AND DESIGN (CM2110)

We will investigate Paris and question it in relation to global fashion. How are Paris as a fashion city and its key figure La Parisienne discursively constructed? How are fashionable commodities produced, mediated, consumed? These questions will be analyzed in lectures, seminars, research projects, exhibition visits and excursions, and by making extensive use of film in addition to other visual media and textual sources.

TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION (CM2910)

TOPICS VARY BY SEMESTER

COMMUNICATING FASHION (CM3004)

Explores what happens when dress and grooming become the basis for the modern phenomena of fashion. Studies the historical development of fashion: how fashion relates to the emergence of artistic, social, and economic forms and the ways fashion communicates ideas about status, gender, or culture. Investigates the role of media, advertising and marketing in the global fashion industry.