Course Description: This is a course for critically engaging with technology through making and theory. Starting from Marshall McLuhen’s seminal analysis of the ways media configure the human sensorium, we will build on sound and moving image to explore the ways computation today operates on levels above or beyond human perception. We will draw from new media art, politics, and media theory to engage with technology by focusing on computation as media, medium, and material for artistic production and critique.

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Course Description: Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications introduces responsive web design using HTML, CSS, and Javascript, the web project planning process, as well as contemporary web standards, best practices, and conventions.

Students will also be introduced to advanced topics including CSS frameworks, CSS3 effects and animation, JavaScript plugins, and, if there is time and interest, Javascript frameworks and designing for extended reality (AV/VR).

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Course Description: This course surveys all aspects of the circulation and reception of images and examines a wide variety of visual media, from photography and film to smartphones and video, from newspapers and magazines to blogs and memes, from painting and sculpture to the built environment and infrastructure. Students will learn visual competency and media literacy; will consider the impact of branding and advertising; will think about how science and medicine use the visual, and how the power of the visual has been deployed in politics and culture throughout history.

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