Schedule
Tue-Thu, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM (1/11/2016 - 5/4/2016) Location: MAIN TATE 228
Fri, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (5/6/2016 - 5/6/2016) Location: MAIN TATE 228
Description
215: Digital Culture
Goal: Students will also analyze works of art, literature, film, video games, and websites, as well and other modes of cultural production, in order to better understand their experience of the contemporary digital media landscape.
Content: Students will consider the significant social changes that have taken place since the rise of digital communications, including areas as diverse as copyright and ownership, artistic and literary production, privacy rights, corporate media control, fandom, and grassroots social movements. A history of writing technologies will help students to see the computer as one of many such historical shifts in human consciousness and social institutions.
Taught: Fall or spring
Prerequisite: Successful completion of WIS 102 or equivalent and one Expanding general education course. Gen. Ed. Category: Synthesis; (HUM)
Credit: 3 hours