This course will provide an historical survey of avant-garde moving images, concentrating on the major tendencies within these traditions. Topics presented will include Dada and surrealist films, the camera […]

Design Across Media addresses the new definitions of design across different media. Today’s design professional is expected to assume many complex roles: from visual and creative director, content provider […]

This course considers classic and alternative screenwriting theory and analysis, offering a way to rethink narrative in terms of emotional structure. Students study a select group of films, analyzing their […]

The photographic image has been a subject of inquiry since the mid-nineteenth century, and is a medium that continues to perplex and confound us in our contemporary situation. Its combination of science and […]

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CRN 4611 w/ Husak, Amir

T, 03:00pm – 05:45pm

(66 5th Ave – Room 400)

This seminar/workshop is an exploration of what it means to live with personal, portable, and handheld media technologies, from PSPs to I-phones to novels. We will study these technologies across time and […]

The documentary is arguably the most challenging and influential form of film and video. It touches, informs, and sometimes outrages millions of viewers seeking facts and insights in a complex world. The […]

Documentary video making presents unique challenges for cinematographers, who often have to work alone or in small crews while capturing the unpredictable. This introductory graduate-level course is designed […]

This methods course investigates how the design process utilizes research strategies including competitive analysis, market research, visual exploration, and user testing. Students will employ both formative […]

With the advent of the internet and low-cost digital recorders, Oral History has emerged as a popular documentary practice, with an approach that tips its hat to several fields (from Anthropology to […]

This course will provide an overview of research methods for media activism. Students will analyze media activists’ use of websites and blogs to share information or organize people into action, or to give a […]

This course is a non-production course in documentary research methodology. With a focus on the American documentary tradition, this course introduces the theoretical and practical foundations necessary for […]

This course looks at sampling for research, and examines its principal approaches, benefits and potential limitations. We will study the steps involved in constructing samples; discuss key terms associated […]

This course looks at the principal approaches of discourse analysis as a research method. Two main areas of discourse research-meaning making and social-cultural relations will be examined using […]

This short course introduces students to principles and practice of focus group research, a tool that has become increasingly popular in social scientific inquiry. Students will read and discuss different […]

This short course is designed to familiarize students with grantseeking process. Students will learn how to search and identify funding resources, prepare applications, develop objectives and write grant […]

This course is required of all first-year Media Studies students; students may be advised to take the course either concurrently with or in the semester after Understanding Media Studies. Media Studies: Ideas […]

The course looks at the character of different media forms, the relationship between forms, and guidelines for choosing which combination is best for a given communications project. Concentrating on design […]

This short course introduces students to principles and practice of interviewing, a significant technique used in qualitative research. Course readings explore basic concepts pertaining to nature and design […]

Students work toward understanding the fundamental aesthetic tools of documentary filmmaking: camera, sound, structure, and interviewing in the context of individual filmic style. Beginning with a series of […]