Prepares students for critical practices in contemporary media cultures in a global context. This course explores the diversity of media practices, including narrative and non-narrative forms, emphasizing aesthetics and visual studies. In lectures and labs students will explore video, sound, the internet, and other multi-media platforms of expression.
Investigate historical and cultural discourses in the formation of media practices. Examines practices such as performance media; cinematic media, media art, and their aesthetic alignment to cognate movements throughout history.
Builds students' ability to watch, reflect on, and write about media images. The course will be grounded in the analysis of media practices with special focus on media style and storytelling techniques. Explores media aesthetics from formal, cultural, and theoretical perspectives. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 1400 (minimum grade D-).
Working in design groups, students will explore the expressive potential of media through the production of short projects, discussions, readings, formal analysis, and critique. Provide a basic introduction to media practices as an extension of "visual thinking" and through approaches to storytelling, and hybrid media forms. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 1400 (minimum grade D-).
Training in narrow topics of media practices. Requisites: Restricted to College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) or Arts and Sciences (ARSC) majors only.
Explores creative approaches to idea formation, conceptualization, and organization for the moving image employing critical thinking, improvisation, and visual storytelling techniques. This course includes forms of creative writing, storytelling, and preproduction techniques and strategies. Requisites: Restricted to College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) or Arts and Sciences (ARSC) majors only.
Investigates documentary cinema and media practices through class discussions, research papers, hands on exercises and the screenings. The course cross-references documentary photography and moving-image documentary in the production of short digital projects. We will likewise explore the distinctive contributions of digital technologies to documentary image making. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2500 (minimum grade D-).
Provides an overview of the recording process from the performer's perspective from soundcheck through final mastering, addressing contemporary issues in technology, web, and performance media. Uses recorded material from in-class sessions. Department consent required. Same as MUSC 2081. Requisites: Restricted to College of Music (MUSCU) or Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) undergraduate students only.
Provides hands-on instruction in various sound recording techniques. This course addresses acoustics, sound reinforcement, studio maintenance, and troubleshooting. This course is taught through labs and individual recording projects. Department consent required. Same as MUSC 2091. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2860 or MUSC 2081 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to College of Music (MUSCU) or Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) undergraduate students only.
Introduces students to the variety of practices by examining their emergence, evolution and cultural impact in the global sphere. Students discover the major themes and genres in documentary work from photography, cinema, audio, hypermedia and the public debates they have engendered. Through lectures, screenings and research, develop critical perspectives on the international and transcultural dimensions of documentary media history. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 1400 (minimum grade D-).
Examines the contemporary landscape of media practices across platforms, such as film, social media, painting, video, and web art. This integrative exploration focuses on production contexts, circulation and reception through the lens of critical and interpretive frameworks. Drawing from key texts by major scholars and the works of media practitioners, students develop globally informed, critical perspectives for understanding. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 1400 (minimum grade D-).
Combine writing with media such as video, music, animation, and podcasting on the computer. The course includes a unit on web-site design and ends with each student creating his or her own website and positing on it the project he or she created for the course.
Explores the aesthetics of sound through the study of sound art and sound culture. Reading and discussion covers theories, technologies, and histories that drive the medium. Students apply concepts by designing and building their own soundscapes. Classes will be organized around hands-on activities, lecture, and discussion of readings. Department consent required. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CMDP 2500 or 2860 or MUSC 2081 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to College of Music (MUSCU) or Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) undergraduate students only.
Surveys the various tools and techniques in the field of music technology. Topics include an introduction to basic synthesis, musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) sequencing, audio sequencing, digital signal processing, music notation, and a historical perspective on electronic music. Department consent required. Same as MUSC/MUEL 4081. Requisites: Restricted to College of Music (MUSCU) or Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) undergraduate students only.
Learn what sound is and where it comes from; how to create, analyze, alter, mix, and record it digitally in the studio and in the field; and how it can interact creatively with other media. In addition to analyzing how professionals use sound, students will create five sound-based projects of their own.
Explores documentary media preproduction tactics and strategies, including basic research approaches, planning, pre-visualization, stylistic approaches, scheduling, working with archive and documentary materials, and documentary ethics. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examine media and moving image aesthetics, tactic and strategies by creating work involving movement and expanded notions of choreography. Within this course students compose images and sounds, structuring them temporally as they explore narrative and non-narrative forms. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores cross platform documentary media practices and contemporary debates in documentary through a study of documentary history, genre, ethics and changing forms. It develops skills in critically analyzing documentary media. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores and workshops documentary media projects and ideas from a variety of disciplines. This course is team-taught with affiliated faculty working in design groups within the documentary lab in one or more areas, such as Art and Art History, Anthropology or Geography. A total of 12 hours are required for IDMP MFA candidates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores distinctive and varied approaches to documentary field work and the uses of media for creative ethnography and other nonfiction practices. This course is team-taught with affiliated faculty from one or more areas such as Art and Art History, Anthropology and Geography. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 5100 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Incorporates reflective study and practice in a course that consists of rotating topics in contemporary documentary practices, such as media essays, observation and participation, personal histories and voices, emergent technologies and documentary media, and interpretive ethnography.
