Essential to follow current events as well. Satisfies second writing requirement. Restricted to lst and 2nd year students. This is a course for students willing to be tough-minded about improving their writing skills. Clarity and accuracy are stressed.
Emphasis is placed on editing skills.
Assignments include writing about news events. Enrollment limited to 15. Satisfies second writing requirement. This course investigates theories about media, understood broadly as various forms of the transmission of words, images, representations, and information. Most of the semester will be spent investigating works from the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, where theories of media deriving from philosophy, linguistics, sociology, psychology, mathematics, and political theory confront the proliferation of new media forms, brought about by technological revolutions in the means of conveying word, image, and sound.