COURSES

The courses listed in this page give a general idea about the courses offered by the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. Students must refer to OSCAR to learn about current course offerings for a specific semester. All courses are three credit hours, unless otherwise specified.

LCC 6215 Issues in Media Studies

This course focuses on the study of mass media from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives.

LCC 6310 The Computer as an Expressive Medium (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Explores the development of the representational power of the computer and the interplay between digital technology and culture. Fall 2006 Syllabus / Fall 2007 Syllabus / Fall 2008 Syllabus / Fall 2010 Syllabus

LCC 6311 Visual Culture and Design (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Explores visual media through a mutually instructive and integrated interplay between critical analyses and the creation of digital artifact. Fall 2005 Syllabus / Fall 2006 Syllabus / Fall 2010 Syllabus

LCC 6312 Design, Technology, and Representation (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Explores historical, cultural, and theoretical issues raised by technologies of representation through critical analyses and the creation of digital artifacts. Spring 2011 Syllabus / Fall 2010 Syllabus

LCC 6313 Principles of Interactive Design (DM Core Course)

Required of all DM students. Design principles of exploiting the affordances of the digital medium, including large information spaces and procedural environments. Spring 2006 Syllabus / Spring 2007 Syllabus / Spring 2009 Syllabus / Fall 2010 Syllabus

LCC 6314 Design of Networked Media

A graduate seminar focused on the cultural and social impact of mobile technologies. The course will draw on a wide variety of literature to examine the broad field of mobile computing and probe issues of access, adoption, identity, privacy, and participation in different cultural and social contexts. Fall 2011 Syllabus

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. Fall 2006 Syllabus

LCC 6317 Interactive Fiction

Students create interactive fictions in a variety of formats, including intersecting story worlds, interactive characters, simulations, and replay worlds. Fall 2009 Syllabus / Fall 2011 Syllabus

LCC 6318 Experimental Media

Students will develop the critical, intellectual, and creative tools necessary to understand, work with, and reimagine design at the developmental stages of emerging technologies. Spring 2006 Syllabus / Spring 2007 Syllabus / Spring 2008 Syllabus

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.Syllabus

LCC 6325 Game Design and Analysis

Focused topics in the theory and practice of game design, theory, and analysis, including issues of creation, and reception, such as a single sub-genre, procedural technique, or media tradition.

LCC 6650 Project Studio

This course offers students the opportunity to work on focused research within existing long-term projects of the New Media Center (NMC).

Additional courses

LCC 6800 Master's Project (6 credits)
LCC 7000 Master's Thesis (6 credits)
LCC 7999 Preparation for Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
LCC 8000 Pro-Seminar in Media Theory
LCC 8001 Pro-Seminar in Digital Media Studies
LCC 8802 Special Topics in Information Design and Technology
LCC 8803 Special Topics in AI Storytelling in Virtual Worlds
LCC 8823 Special Topics in Game Design and Analysis
LCC 8833 Special Topics in Technology of Representation: Aesthetics and the Digital Media Arts
LCC 8910 Special Problems in Social and Cultural Perspectives on Science and Technology
LCC 8997 Graduate Teaching Assistantship
LCC 8998 Graduate Research Assistantship
LCC 9000 Doctoral Thesis (6 credits)