Thinking Media/Studies
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/STS 6400: Thinking Media Studies - Anna Shechtman, Yu Wang
Media Studies Minor Colloquium
PMA 2000 (SPRING 2026): Media Studies Minor Colloquium - Sabine Haenni
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
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
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
Comparative Literature
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
AMST 4944, COML 4944, COML 6944, FGSS 4944, FGSS 6944, GOVT 6946, LGBT 4944, LGBT 6944, ROMS 4944, ROMS 6944: Digital Biopolitics - Naminata Diabate
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
Design Tech
#DESIGN 6152: Design and Making Across Disciplines II - Jenny Sabin, Tiffany Cheng, Lawson Spencer
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
Information Science
AMST 2980, ENGRG 2980, HIST 2920, INFO 2921, STS 2921: Inventing an Information Society - Gili Vidan
INFO 4113, INFO 6113, LAW 7113: Technology and Law Colloquium - Karen Levy
#INFO 4940: Special Topics in Information Science: Producing Culture About, With, and Through Tech - Christopher Csíkszentmihályi
COMM 6211, INFO 6210: Information, Technology, and Society - Daniel Susser, Helen Nissenbaum
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
Music
#MUSIC 1199: Elements of Studio Production and Recording - Kevin Ernste
AMST 1312, MUSIC 1312: History of Rock Music - Judith A. Peraino
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
COML 3261, PMA 3550, PMA 6550, VISST 3175: Global Cinema and Media - Sabine Haenni
AMST 3760, PMA 3560, VISST 3760: American Cinema since 1968 - Sabine Haenni
#PMA 3570: Film and Video Production I - Jeffrey Palmer
PMA 3684: Critical Listening Strategies: Lessons From Sound Art - Mendi Obadike
#ART 3786, PMA 3686: Collaborative Art Practices - Keith Obadike, 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
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
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
STS 4040: Digital Due Process Clinic - Malte Ziewitz
SOC 6310, STS 6311: Qualitative Research Methods for Studying Science, Technology, and Medicine - Malte Ziewitz
FALL 2025
NOTE: Courses are only listed under the parent course department.
Anthropology
#ANTHR 3110, ANTHR 6110, PMA 3510, PMA 6510: Documentary Production Fundamentals - Natasha Raheja
Architecture
#ARCH 8151: Design Topic Research Studio III: Matter Design Computation - Farzin Lotfi-Jam
#ARCH 8151: Design Topic Research Studio III: Matter Design Computation - Jenny Sabin
Art
#ART 3015, ART 5105, PMA 5105: Instructions for Art: Text Scores in Art, Music and Performance - Keith Obadike, Mendi Obadike
#ART 3699, ART 5699: Photography: Special Topics: Future Photography - Michael Ashkin
#ART 3705, ART 5705: Media Arts, Performance, and Sound: Sound - Keith Obadike
History of Art
ARTH 2500, VISST 2500: Introduction to the History of Photography - Andrew Moisey
ARTH 4545, ARTH 6545: The Photobook - Andrew Moisey
Asian Studies
ASIAN 2211: Introduction to Japan - Andrew Campana
ASIAN 3317: Japanese Poetry - Andrew Campana
ASIAN 6622, COML 6622: Asia, Theory, Critique - Arnika Fuhrmann
Comparative Literature
COML 2241, SHUM 2241: Game of Thrones: Multi-Media Fantasies - Andrea Bachner
COML 2723, FGSS 2723, VISST 2723: Digital Feminism and Race - Naminata Diabate
Communication
COMM 3800: Television in the Digital Age - Katherine Sender
COMM 4777: Advertising and Society - Brooke Duffy
COMM 6800: Studies in Communication - Katherine Sender
Design Tech
#DESIGN 6151: Design and Making Across Disciplines I - Laura Gonzalez, Marirena Kladeftira, Jenny Sabin, Lawson Spencer
Literatures in English
ENGL 3753: Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde - Anna Shechtman
ENGL 4710, ENGL 6171, MEDVL 4170, MEDVL 6170: The Archaeology of the Text from Chaucer through the Renaissance - Andrew Galloway
German Studies
COML 3113, GERST 3545, MEDVL 3545, PMA 3545, VISST 3545: Imagining the Middle Ages: Films, Games, and Media - Erik Born
GERST 6655, PMA 6655: Media Philosophy - Erik Born
Information Science
INFO 1200, STS 1201: Information Ethics, Law, and Policy - Daniel Susser, Gili Vidan
#INFO 4240, INFO 5240, STS 4240: Designing Technology for Social Impact - Christopher Csíkszentmihályi
#INFO 4940, INFO 6940: Special Topics in Information Science: Human Centered Design and Engaged Media - Jon McKenzie
INFO 6940: Special Topics in Information Science - Karen Levy
Music
#MUSIC 1421: Introduction to Computer Music - Kevin Ernste
AMST 2232, FGSS 2232, LGBT 2232, MUSIC 2232: Queer Pop from the Stonewall Uprising to the Millennium - Judith Peraino
ANTHR 3318, FGSS 3318, LGBT 3318, MUSIC 3318, PMA 3418: Virtual Music - Nic Vigilante
MUSIC 4252, MUSIC 6252: Pop Music in the Archive: Researching Subcultures of the Recent Past - Judith Peraino
#MUSIC 4412, MUSIC 6412: Making Sound Futures - Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri
#MUSIC 7111: Composition - Kevin Ernste, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri
Performing and Media Arts
PMA 2100: Introduction to Performing and Media Arts - Juan Aldape Munoz, Kristen Warner
COML 2512, PMA 2512: Contemporary World Cinema - Sabine Haenni
AAS 2623, AMST 2622, PMA 2621: Introduction to Asian American Performance and Media - Christine Balance
AMST 2160, ENGL 2160, FGSS 2160, PMA 2660, VISST 2160: Television - Nick Salvato
AMST 3812, PMA 3441, VISST 3812: Edge Cities: Celluloid New York and Los Angeles - Sabine Haenni
PMA 3467: Women Audiences in Film and Television - Kristen Warner
#PMA 3570: Film and Video Production I - Jeffrey Palmer
#PMA 3571: Documentary Filmmaking - Jeffrey Palmer
#PMA 4000: Senior Studio - Mendi Obadike
PMA 4711, PMA 6711: Camp: Aesthetics and Politics - Nick Salvato
ASRC 6402, PMA 6402: Black Film and Media Studies - Samantha Sheppard
Spanish
LATA 4666, LATA 6666, SHUM 4666, SHUM 6666, SPAN 4666, SPAN 6666: Specters of Latin America - Irina Troconis
Science & Technology Studies
STS 2031: Global History of Data - Yu Wang
INFO 4561, SHUM 4561, SOC 4560, STS 4561: Evaluation and Society - Malte Ziewitz