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 6213 Educational Applications of New Media

This seminar introduces students to a variety of perspectives on learning as they apply to work in educational technology.

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.

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 artifacts.

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.

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.

LCC 6314 Design of Networked Media

Issues in hypertextual and multimedia design in networked environments, including the World Wide Web, interactive television, and wireless applications.

LCC 6315 Project Production

Focuses on defining user and client needs, analysis of competing products, budgeting, scheduling and management of the production process, and the design of the testing process.

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.

LCC 6317 Interactive Fiction

Students create interactive fictions in a variety of formats, including intersecting story worlds, interactive characters, simulations, and replay worlds.

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.

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.

LCC 6320 Globalization and New Media

Historical and theoretical approach to the connections between modes of global integration and modes of representing information

LCC 6321 Architecture of Responsive Spaces

Students explore the architecture of hybrid computational and physical spaces, and how we can build habitation configured of physical matter and responsive computational media.

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 6330 Expressive Virtual Space

Practical and theoretical investigation of virtual space in real-time 3D environments with a focus on meditation and functionality.

LCC 6340 Mixed Reality Experience Design

This course introduces students to the design of digital experiences for education and entertainment using Augmented Reality, Tangible Computing, or other forms of Mixed Reality.

LCC 6350 Spatial Construction of Meaning

Study of the way in which space is manipulated to construct meaning in design formulation. Emphasis on logical structure, geometry, and experiential correlates.

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).

LCC 8000 Proseminar-Media Theory

Key traditions of media theory that contribute to the study of Digital Media.

LCC 8001 Digital Media Studies

Advanced work in production and critique of new media forms.

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 8802 Special Topics in Information Design and Technology
LCC 8803 Special Topics in Information Design and Technology
LCC 8813 Advanced Issues in Interactive Narrative
LCC 8823 Special Topics in Game Design and Analysis
LCC 8831 Special Topics in the Technology of Representation
LCC 8910 Special Problems in Information Design and Technology
LCC 8920 Special Problems in Information Deisgn and Technology
LCC 8997 Graduate Teaching Assistantship
LCC 8998 Graduate Research Assistantship
LCC 9000 Doctoral Thesis (6 credits)