Current Courses

Making Media Courses (also indicated with a # below)

Media Studies Course Archive

 

Thinking Media/Studies

NOTE: Thinking Media Studies will be offered in FA26 instead of SP27.

Graduate (FALL 2026)

ANTHR 6400/ASIAN 6400/COML 6405/ENGL 6400/GERST 6405/MUSIC 6400/PMA 6400/STS 6400: Thinking Media Studies - Shaoling Ma, Parisa Vaziri

 

Undergraduate (SPRING 2026)

COML/ENGL/GERST/MUSIC/PMA/SHUM 2703: Thinking Media - Erik Born

Graduate (SPRING 2026)

ANTHR 6400/ENGL 6400/GERST 6405/MUSIC 6400/PMA 6400: Thinking Media Studies - Anna Shechtman, Yu Wang

 

Media Studies Minor Colloquium

PMA 2000 (SPRING 2026): Media Studies Minor Colloquium - Sabine Haenni

 

FALL 2026

NOTE: Courses are only listed under the parent course department.

Anthropology

#ANTHR 3110, ANTHR 6110, PMA 3510, PMA 6510: Documentary Production I - Natasha Raheja

#ANTHR 3190, ANTHR 6190, PMA 3190, PMA 6190: Laboratory in Visual Anthropology - Natasha Raheja

Art

#ART 3006, ART 4003, ART 4004: Advanced Practice; Thesis I; Thesis II - Michael Ashkin, Oscar Cornejo

#ART 3699, ART 5699: Photography: Special Topics: Photobook: The Malleable Image - Michael Ashkin

ART 3804, ART 5804, PMA 3804, PMA 5804: Black Sound and Visual Culture - Keith Obadike

History of Art

ARTH 2500, VISST 2500: Introduction to the History of Photography - Andrew Moisey

ARTH 3651, FGSS 3655, SHUM 3651, VISST 3651: Women in New Media Art - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 4153, ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153: Topics in Feminist Media Arts: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 4545, ARTH 6545: The Photobook - Tutorial - Andrew Moisey

Classics

CLASS 1812: Classics and Comics - Courtney Roby

Comparative Literature

COML 1127: FWS: Cannibal Cultures - Andrea Bachner

COML 3017: Tattoo Cultures - Andrea Bachner

Communication

COMM 2200: Media Communication - Wunpini Mohammed

COMM 4292, FGSS 4292: Sexual Identities and the Media - Katherine Sender

COMM 4777: Advertising and Society - Brooke Duffy

COMM 6800: Studies in Communication - Katherine Sender

Design Tech

#DESIGN 4197, DESIGN 6197: Special Topics in Design: Digital Ceramics - Jenny Sabin

Literatures in English

AMST 4619, ENGL 4619, ENGL 6619, MUSIC 4454: Writing on Tape in the 60s, 70s, 80s: Art and Politics of the Overdub - Jeremy Braddock

#COML 4281, ENGL 4705: Human-Centered Design and Engaged Media - Jon McKenzie

Information Science

INFO 3170: Understanding AI and Society - David Rand, Gili Vidan

INFO 6620: Social Research Design and Method - Karen Levy

Italian

ITAL 2290: Italian Mysteries - Timothy Campbell

ITAL 3750: Pinocchio: Adventures in Literature and Film - Timothy Campbell

Music

AMST 1332, ASRC 1932, MUSIC 1332: (Intro) To Black Music: Listening, Sounding, and Studying Black Radical Possibility - Adia Dromgoole, Victoria Xaka

MUSIC 2440: Shaping Sound I: An introduction to Experimentation in Sound and Composition - Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

MUSIC 2701, SHUM 2701: Music and Digital Gameplay - Roger Moseley

MUSIC 7112: Graduate Composition Lessons - Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

MUSIC 7312: Semiotics of Listening - Victoria Xaka

Performing and Media Arts

PMA 2100: Introduction to Performing and Media Arts - Beth Milles, Kristen Warner

#PMA 2400: Preproduction and Development - Kristen Warner

AMST 2760, ENGL 2761, PMA 2560, VISST 2300: American Cinema - Sabine Haenni

COML 3442, PMA 3452, PMA 5452: Filming Migration - Sabine Haenni

COML 3261, PMA 3550, VISST 3175: Global Cinema and Media - Samantha Sheppard

AMST 3745, FGSS 3740, LGBT 3740, PMA 3740: Parody - Nick Salvato

FGSS 4835, FGSS 6835, LGBT 4835, PMA 4835, PMA 6835, VISST 4835: Performance Studies: Theories and Methods - Christine Balance
 

Romance Studies

COML 4196, COML 6196, ROMS 4196, ROMS 6190, SPAN 4196, SPAN 6190: The Uncanny - Patricia Keller

Spanish

SPAN 3710: Latin American Documentary - Irina Troconis Gonzalez

Science & Technology Studies

HIST 2031, STS 2031: Global History of Data - Yu Wang

HIST 2881, STS 2381: Ten Technologies That Shook the World - Sara Pritchard

SPRING 2026

NOTE: Courses are only listed under the parent course department.

Anthropology

#ANTHR 4401, ANTHR 7401, PMA 4401, PMA 7401: Advanced Documentary Production - Natasha Raheja

ANTHR 4424, ANTHR 7424: Ethnographic Film Theory and History - Natasha Raheja

#ANTHR 7401, ANTHR 4401, PMA 4401, PMA 7401: Advanced Documentary Production - Natasha Raheja

Architecture

#ARCH 5112: Core Design Studio II: Relational and Ecological Design - Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Ryan Whitby

#ARCH 5904: Design X Expanded Design Thesis - Jenny Sabin

Art

#ART 2601: Photography: Introduction to Photography - Dan Torop

#ART 3699, ART 5699: Photography: Special Topics: Elemental Landscape: Alter and Turn - Dan Torop

Asian Studies

ASIAN 2252, PMA 2452: Introduction to Japanese Film - Andrew Campana

ASIAN 3315, SHUM 3325: Game Studies and Japan - Andrew Campana

Classics

ARKEO 2641, CLASS 2641, STS 2641: The Technology of Ancient Rome - Courtney Roby

ARKEO 2812, CLASS 2812, LING 2212, NES 2812, SHUM 2812, STS 2812, VISST 2812: Hieroglyphs to HTML: History of Writing - Athena Kirk

Communication

#COMM 3040: Writing and Editing for Magazines and Online Media - Andrei Guruianu

#COMM 3055: Video Storytelling - Iveta Imre

COMM 3400: Global Media Industries - Wunpini Mohammed

COMM 6300, FGSS 6301, LGBT 6301: Queer Media Studies - Katherine Sender

COMM 6830: Qualitative Research Methods in Communication - Lee Humphreys

Comparative Literature

AMST 4944, COML 4944, COML 6944, FGSS 4944, FGSS 6944, GOVT 6946, LGBT 4944, LGBT 6944, ROMS 4944, ROMS 6944: Digital Biopolitics - Naminata Diabate

COML 2272, ENGL 2272: Out of Line: Introduction to Narrative and Media - Andrea Bachner

COML 3006, FGSS 3693, ILRGL 3691, NES 3691: Race, Slavery, and Cinema - Parisa Vaziri

COML 3485, FREN 3485, ITAL 3485, PMA 3485, SPAN 3485: Cinematic Cities - Patricia Keller, Cecelia Lawless

COML 4861, COML 6861, PMA 4461, PMA 6461: Genres, Platforms, Media - Jonathan Monroe

Design Tech

#DESIGN 6152: Design and Making Across Disciplines II - Jenny Sabin, Tiffany Cheng, Lawson Spencer

History of Art

ARTH 3650, ARTH 6653, INFO 3660, STS 3650, VISST 3650: History and Theory of Digital Art - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 4151, ARTH 6151, STS 4511, STS 6511, VISST 4151, VISST 6151: Topics in Media Arts: Biological Art (Bio Art) - Maria Fernandez

ARTH 4540, ARTH 6540: Film History for Art Historians - Andrew Moisey

Information Science

AMST 2980, ENGRG 2980, HIST 2920, INFO 2921, STS 2921: Inventing an Information Society - Gili Vidan

COMM 6211, INFO 6210: Information, Technology, and Society - Daniel Susser, Helen Nissenbaum

INFO 4113, INFO 6113, LAW 7113: Technology and Law Colloquium - Karen Levy

INFO 4260, STS 4260: Computing On Earth: Planetary Dimensions and Consequence of Computing - Steven Jackson

#INFO 4940: Special Topics in Information Science: Producing Culture About, With, and Through Tech - Christopher Csíkszentmihályi

Italian

ITAL 2204: The Cinematic Eye of Italy - Timothy Campbell

ITAL 3010, PMA 3410: Screening Cosa Nostra: The Mafia and the Movies from Scarface to The Sopranos - Timothy Campbell

Literatures in English

ENGL 1340, INFO 1340: Books as Data - Lindsay Thomas, Matthew Wilkens

ENGL 2020: Literature in English II:  Writing and Media, 1750-present - Jeremy Braddock

ENGL 2710: Novel Technologies - Anna Shechtman

ENGL 3706, VISST 3706: Photo-Text - Andrew Hill

Music

AMST 1312, MUSIC 1312: History of Rock Music - Judith A. Peraino

#MUSIC 1199: Elements of Studio Production and Recording - Kevin Ernste

MUSIC 2441: Shaping Sound II - Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

#MUSIC 3142: The Composer's Toolbox II - Igor Santos

MUSIC 4355, MUSIC 6355: Rwanda Audio Lab - Victoria Xaka

#MUSIC 7111: Composition - Kevin Ernste, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

#MUSIC 7412: Intermedia Arts Seminar: Aesthetics and Practice - Igor Santos

Near Eastern Studies

HIST 4666, HIST 6666, NES 4666, NES 6666: Mass Media and Identities in the Modern Middle East - Ziad Fahmy

Performing and Media Arts

AMST 3760, PMA 3560, VISST 3760: American Cinema since 1968 - Sabine Haenni

#ART 3786, PMA 3686: Collaborative Art Practices - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike

COML 3261, PMA 3550, PMA 6550, VISST 3175: Global Cinema and Media - Sabine Haenni

#PMA 3508: Material Filmmaking (Experimental Film): 16mm Film, Photo, Animation - Doo Rim Kim

#PMA 3570: Film and Video Production I - Jeffrey Palmer

PMA 3684: Critical Listening Strategies: Lessons From Sound Art - Mendi Obadike

PMA 4172: Queer TV - Nick Salvato

#PMA 4585, VISST 4793: Film and Video Production II - Jeffrey Palmer

PMA 4841, PMA 6841: States of Animation - Nick Salvato

Science & Technology Studies

ASIAN 4024, ASIAN 6024, BSOC 4020, BSOC 6020, STS 4020, STS 6020: Science, Medicine, and Media Technologies in East Asia - Yu Wang

SOC 6310, STS 6311: Qualitative Research Methods for Studying Science, Technology, and Medicine - Malte Ziewitz

STS 4040: Digital Due Process Clinic - Malte Ziewitz

Society for the Humanities

ASIAN 4713, ASIAN 6713, PMA 4513, PMA 6513, SHUM 4713, SHUM 6713, VISST 4706, VISST 6706: In Working Order: Labor On and Off Screen - Shaoling Ma

Spanish

SPAN 3290: Performance and Memory in Contemporary Latin America - Irina Troconis Gonzalez

 

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