COURSES

Courses for Fall 2008

LCC 1102: English Composition II: Freshman English II.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2100: Introduction to Science, Technology, and Culture: As the introductory course to the major in Science, Technology and Culture, this course explores the ways in which disciplines construct and represent the knowledge they generate.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2108: Science, Technology, and Enlightenment: Considers the conceptual reformulation of the internal and external world urged by the sciences, technology, and culture of the Enlightenment.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2110: Science, Technology, and Romanticism: Examines the relationships among romantic ideology, science, and literature, including Romanticism's imaginative responses to Enlightenment science and the Industrial Revolution.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2200: Introduction to Gender Studies: This course introduces the cultural concept of gender, examining topics such as biology and gender, social constructions of gender, and the psychology and sexual roles.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2210: Rearticulations of American Culture: Examines representations of the USA from its geographical expansion in the late nineteenth century to the closing of the frontier and emergence as global power.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2214: Victorian Literature and Culture: Investigates the period 1830-1901 in English literature and culture, focusing on how that period defined key questions, especially ones about human nature, society, and the relation of religion to science.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2300: Introduction to Biomedicine & Culture: The history of biology and medicine.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2500: Introduction to Film: Introduces film techniques and vocabulary in an historical and cultural context. Written texts are supplemented by viewings of specific shots, scenes, and films.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2700: Introduction to Computational Media: Students read, discuss, and write analytically about key developments in history of digital media and the work of important theorists/inventors. They critique exemplary digital artifacts from classic programs like Weizenbaum's Eliza (an automated therapist) to the latest videogames. They also create projects within key representational traditions of computational media, such as conversational characters, web archives, and simulations.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2720: Principles of Visual Design: Students create digital visual images and analyze designs from an historical and theoretical perspectives. Students will be given design problems growing out of their reading and present solutions using Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and 3DstudioMax or similar 3D application. Students will also examine visual experience in broad terms, from the perspectives of creators and viewers. The course will address a number of key questions including: Why is the act of drawing considered by numerous disciplines to be a cognitive and perceptual practice? How do images produce significance or meaning? What is the role of technology in creating and understanding images and vision? What is the difference between the intention of the creator and the interpretations of the viewers? How do images function as a "language"?
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2730: Construction the Moving Image: Students examine conceptual, formal, aesthetic, and technical approaches to reconsider film, video, and animation within the context of emerging digital forms. They learn to further the development of new, digital forms of the moving image by analyzing. mastering, and expanding its conventions. Students will engage in continual creation, experimentation, and analysis. This is a studio course, with regular design assignments and design critiques. The course includes work in montage editing, camerawork, storyboarding, advanced editing, streaming video, and interactive video.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2813: Special Topics in Science, Technology, and Culture: Study of one or more topics of current interest in the area of science, technology, and culture.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 2823: Special Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies: Examination of one or more topics of current interest in literary and cultural studies.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3204: Poetry and Poetics: A study of traditions of poetic practice and poetic theory in English, in conjunction with a weekly workshop session centered on the student's own poetry.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3226: Majors Authors: An examination of the works and career of a major author in historical and cultural context.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3228: Shakespeare: An examination of Shakespeare's works with attention to generic conventions, historical context, and the relationship of text and performance. Major works of Shakespeare's contemporaries are studied as appropriate.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3254: Film History: Prerequisite: LCC 2500

Surveys the history of film from its machine origins to its present digital developments. It focuses on various movements, figures, and narrative developments in world cinema.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3256: Major Filmmakers: Prerequisite: LCC 2500

Traces in depth an individual artist's career and affords students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the works of an important figure in the world of film.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3306: Science, Technology, and Race: Examines specific historical and contemporary constructions of race, within the prevailing scientific theories and ideologies in order to determine the role played by "race" in scientific and technological culture.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3318: Biomedicine & Culture: Discusses the history of biology and medicine; popular representations of health, disease, and the medical establishment; and the cultural implications of medical imaging technologies.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3352: Film and/as Technology: Prerequisite: LCC 2500

Examines the development of film technology and the implications of that technology for cinema's treatment of technology.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3401: Technical Communication Practices: Class meets 2 hours per week and carries 2 semester hours of credit.

Designed to introduce students to the types of documents and communication abilities required by their future professions, the course focuses on an understanding of both visual and verbal rhetoric in application to technical documents.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3412: Communicating Science and Technology to the Public: Prerequisite: LCC 2100

Examines both the theoretical and practical issues involved in communicating scientific and/or technological material to a variety of lay audiences.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3710: Principles of Interaction Design: Students learn how to understand the issues involved in applying computational abstractions to culturally complex processes, to apply participatory conventions of digital and legacy media to the design of digital artifacts, and to analyze and critique their own and others' designs for their effectiveness in creating the experience of agency for the interactor. Students also examine the history and development of key conventions of interaction, and the role of multiple disciplines (HCI, graphic design, industrial design, cultural criticism) in guiding interaction design. They apply the principles of interaction design to artifacts in several genres (e.g. tools, games, web pages, installations, virtual reality), and apply an iterative design methodology and quick prototyping to problems in interaction design.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3833: Special Topics in Issues of Science, Technology, and Culture: Study of one or more current issues in science, technology, and culture.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3853: Special Topics in Film: Prerequisite: LCC 2500

Examines one or more current topics in film studies.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 3853: Special Topics: Prerequisite: LCC 2500

Examines one or more current topics in film studies.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 4100: Seminar in Science, Technology, and Culture: Prerequisite: LCC 2100

A capstone seminar to the major, this course will ask students to draw upon their training in order to engage topical issues in the cultural studies of science.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 4406: Contemporary Issues in Professional Communication: Intended primarily for students planning careers in professional communication, this course will alternate among a number of issues including intellectual property law, integrating print and electronic media, and cultural studies of corporate environments.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 4725: Game Design as a Cultural Practice: Students analyze games as cultural artifacts and gameplay as a patterned cultural experience similar to theater, music, and other participatory creative activities. The emphasis is on the design elements common to games, from ancient board games to computer games, and the expressive possibilities and cultural concerns specific to digital games. The course includes theoretical readings and close analysis of specific games. The course will consider the primary theoretical contexts for understanding games, including anthropological, biological, sociological, aesthetic, and literary frameworks. It will include the close analysis of influential and representative games from ancient times to the present, and will engage students in design exercises and in the creation of original digital games.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 6215: Issues in Media Studies: This course focuses on the study of mass media from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 6310: The Computer as an Expressive Medium: Explores the development of the representational power of the computer and the interplay between digital technology and culture.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 6311: Visual Culture and Design: Explores visual media through a mutually instructive and integrated interplay between critical analyses and the creation of digital artifacts.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 6316: Historical Approaches to Digital Media: Examines digital media in the context of earlier media, such as handwriting and printing as well as photography, radio, film, and television.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 6319: Intellectual Property Policy and Law: Students examine constitutionally informed policy and pragmatic legal issues in intellectual property law, focusing on the effects of power structures and information digitization.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 6650: Project Studio: This course offers students the opportunity to work on focused research within existing long-term projects of the New Media (NM) Center.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 6800: Master's Project: Offered Fall 2008
Credit:6
LCC 8000: Pro-Seminar in Media Theory: Key traditions of media theory that contribute to the study of Digital Media.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 8802: Special Topics in Information Design and Technology: Class and credit hours equal last digit in course number.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 8823: Special Topics in Game Design and Analysis: Advanced topics in the theory and practice of game design, theory, and analysis, including creation, reception, procedural technique, and tradition.
Offered Fall 2008
Credit:3
LCC 9000: Doctoral Thesis: Offered Fall 2008
Credit:6