Literature, Media, and Communication
Spring 2018
Course Descriptions
This is a list that will be updated as instructors submit paragraphs that better describe their version of the course (from the course catalog description).
| LMC 2050 29130 Lit, Media, Comm Seminar | Instructor: Santesso |
| (TR 1:30-2:45 Skiles 169) Course restricted: Only LMC majors.
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| LMC Seminar: Utopia and Dystopia
In this seminar, we will trace the history of utopian thought (particularly in literature, but also in film, architecture, and other fields), and consider the emergence of dystopian cultural work as a response. What relationship does utopian literature or film have to real-world utopian projects? What is the future of utopian work and thought? And why does every single movie franchise have to be “dystopian” these days? We will read works ranging from More’s Utopia to present-day science fiction, along with a range of film and digital works.
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| LMC 2050 29130 Lit, Media, Comm Seminar | Instructor: Senf |
| (TR 3:00-4:15 Skiles 314) Course restricted: Only LMC majors
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| This course introduces second-semester majors to the six threads on which LMC majors can focus and to both primary and secondary research. The class will begin with an intensive study of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (literature, social justice, and science, technology, and culture) and to the various media in which it has been adapted. Students will then move into the more active study of social justice as it impacts Atlanta and the campus and will be encouraged to present their findings in ways that encourage exploration of communication practices and design.
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| LMC 2300: Intro to Biomed and Culture | Instructor: Lagos |
| LMC 2400 Intro to Media Studies | Instructor: D. Wilson |
| (MWF 10:10-11:00 Skiles 169) Course restricted: Only LMC majors
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| LMC 2500 Intro to Film | Instructor: Zinman |
| (TR 1:30-2:45 Skiles 371) | Screenings: T 3-5 Skiles 002 |
| This course provides students with a number of approaches—formal, historical, and theoretical—with which to analyze cinematic form and to understand how moving images make meaning. The class begins by examining cinema’s formal elements (cinematography, editing, mise-en-scène, sound) in order to establish the necessary terminology required for the analysis of film. We then turn to the conventions and critiques of Hollywood narrative filmmaking, considering issues of genre, authorship, and ideology, before considering some alternatives (avant-garde, art cinema, other national cinemas, documentary) to dominant Western film styles. The class concludes by interrogating the quickly shifting status of the moving image in the digital age, and asking what these technological changes might indicate for cinema’s future.
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| LMC 2500 Intro to Film | Instructor: Dalle Vacche |
| (TR 8:00-9:15am Skiles 371) | Screenings T 3-5 Skiles 371 |
| LMC 2600 Intro to Perform Studies | Instructor: Auslander |
| (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 308) | |
| LMC 2661 Theatre Production I | Instructor: Foulger |
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| LMC 2662 Theatre Production II | Instructor: Foulger |
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| LMC 2720 Prin of Visual Design | Instructor: Kozubaev |
| (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 357) | |
| Studio-based course that provides students with basic skills needed to create digital visual images and to analyze designs from historical and theoretical perspectives. Students will be given design problems growing out of their reading and present solutions using Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and 3DstudioMax or similar 3D application. Students will also examine visual experience in broad terms, from the perspectives of creators and viewers. The course will address a number of key questions including: Why is the act of drawing considered by numerous disciplines to be a cognitive and perceptual practice? How do images produce significance or meaning? What is the role of technology in creating and understanding images and vision? What is the difference between the intention of the creator and the interpretations of the viewers? How do images function as a “language”? |
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| LMC 2720 Prin of Visual Design | Instructor: Peer |
| (MWF 10:10-11:00 Skiles 357)
Course restricted: Only CM LMC majors.
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| Studio-based course that provides students with basic skills needed to create digital visual images and to analyze designs from historical and theoretical perspectives. Students will be given design problems growing out of their reading and present solutions using Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and 3DstudioMax or similar 3D application. Students will also examine visual experience in broad terms, from the perspectives of creators and viewers. The course will address a number of key questions including: Why is the act of drawing considered by numerous disciplines to be a cognitive and perceptual practice? How do images produce significance or meaning? What is the role of technology in creating and understanding images and vision? What is the difference between the intention of the creator and the interpretations of the viewers? How do images function as a “language”? |
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| LMC 2730 Construct-Moving Image | Instructor: Freeman |
| MWF 12:20-1:10 Skiles 357) Course restricted: Only CM majors. | |
| LMC 2813 30881 Special Topics in STAC | Instructor: Appel-Silbaug
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| Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course. Contact HP for permit.
(TR 9:30-10:45am 323 Clough Commons) Honors Program students only. |
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| Ethnography of Interfaith GT | |
| LMC 3104 Age Scientific Discovery | Instructor: Wood |
| (TR 12:00-1:15 Skiles 314)
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| LMC 3112 Evolution & Industrial Age | Instructor: Senf |
| (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 308)
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| This class focuses on the rise of industrialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century and connects later nineteenth-century scientific and technological concepts and discoveries, particularly theories of evolution, to the fiction and poetry of the long nineteenth century. Students will read from the works of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries and analyze the representation of science and technology in short stories, novels, poetry, and scientific prose. Discussion will focus especially on how science and social values overlap, particularly in narrative representations of ethnicity, gender, and class.
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| LMC 3114 Sci, Tech & Modernism | Instructor: Leland |
| (MWF 12:20-1:10pm Skiles 317)
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| We examine a cross-section of the cultural/political/scientific ferment in the West in the first part of the 20th century—a time of general cultural paradigm crisis provoking new forms and models, new languages and dialects, as it were, for representing and making sense of the experience of modernity. The course materials are a mix of theoretical essays, scientific writings, and elite and popular artistic works. The material can be challenging (both in quality and quantity) but I think you will often find it exciting. Learning Outcomes: Students will have an informed sense of the intricately complex ways in which modern technology, modern science, modern political economy, urban concentrations of population, and modern warfare (WWI) affect and influence psychological and cultural contexts.
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| LMC 3202 Studies in Fiction | Instructor: Yaszek |
| (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 317)
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| Studies in Fiction: Global Science Fiction
This class will explore science fiction (SF) as a variety of texts that enable people to talk about their experiences with science and technology across centuries, continents, and cultures. In the first unit, we will explore the history and critical vocabulary of science fiction as it has developed in Europe and the United States over the past two hundred years. In the second unit, we will examine the transition from nationally- to globally-oriented science fiction through a case study of black speculative fiction, beginning with nineteenth-century African American alternate histories and extending to present-day African science fiction. In the third and longest unit, we will continue our study of science fiction from around the globe, including tales from South America, India, Russia, China, Japan, and the Middle East.
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| LMC 3204 Poetry and Poetics | Instructor: Leland |
| (MWF 1:55-2:45pm Skiles 317)
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| What makes poetry different from other uses of language? Mostly, it is a matter of technique: poetry is more intricately patterned than prose. The patterns may be sound patterns (rhyme, rhythm and the like) or semantic patterns, patterns of meaning such as metaphor or image or allusion, or they may be visual patterns (lines, stanza shapes etc.). Often a poem will be patterned in all these ways, and more! More than emotional intensity or philosophical depth, this is what makes a poem a poem.
When I turn to the one I love and say “I love you,” that may signify a most profound and important feeling. But it is not a poem.
When I say: “I love you like October light loves heathered hills, loves slopes with wildflowers gone over, loves little yellow leaves, like flakes of light, that drift down shadows, and trees turning, half-undressed, to meet its gaze.” …that’s a poem. And we can think about and talk about how that poem works, or doesn’t work. In this class we will study and analyze some of the practices of poetic pattern-making in English. We will regularly write, read, and talk about (anonymously) our own poems too. There will be a steady practice of reading— poetry mostly, and thinking about what you have read, and trying to express your thinking both verbally in class and in written form. You will also probably produce a fairly steady stream of writing, both creative writing and analytical writing.
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| LMC 3204 Poetry and Poetics | Instructor: Lux |
| (F 3:00-5:45pm Skiles 343)
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| This class centers on the pleasures of reading poetry. Students from all backgrounds are invited to join this discussion-based class in which we will deepen our appreciation of the art form. Assignments include several short papers and a daily poetry journal. Attendance at Poetry@Tech readings is required.
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| LMC 3206 Communication & Culture | Instructor: Leibert |
| (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 346) Course restricted: Only CM LMC majors.
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| LMC 3208 African-Amer Lit/Cult | Instructor: Morris |
| (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 311)
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| LMC 3210 Ethnicity American Cult | Instructor: Farooq |
| (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 317)
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| LMC 3214 Science Fiction | Instructor: Morris |
| (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 308)
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| LMC 3215 Science Fiction Film TV | Instructor: Telotte |
| (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 368)
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Screenings: T 3:00-5:00pm Skiles 368 |
| This course explores how a specific genre works and what happens when it crosses conventional media boundaries. The course focuses on science fiction as it has developed during film history and as it has gradually become a popular form of television narrative. The course initially looks at how we define and distinguish different genres, how they share elements, and how they function culturally. It then examines how these generic characteristics developed from silent film to the present, and it considers several popular television series to determine what the various media versions of the genre share and how they differ. Our goal is threefold: to better understand how a particular genre works, to gain a sense of media science fiction’s history and themes, and to see how it is inflected by the two of the media in which it has found great popularity. Students attend weekly screenings, read material on genre and science fiction, and discuss the films, television episodes, and readings. Grades depend on two tests, a comprehensive final, an oral/written report, and a research paper.
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| LMC 3219 Literature & Medicine | Instructor: Hassan |
| (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 308) | |
| LMC 3225 Gender Study-Disciplines | Instructor: Pollock |
| (MWF 11:15-12:05pm Skiles 370)
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| This course explores the concept of gender and its usefulness as a theoretical category in a variety of disciplines. We will consider how gender matters in disciplines of engineering, and will include particular attention to LGBT issues. We will start with foundational conceptual and historical concerns, and then turn to issues in engineering education and engineering as a profession. Guest lectures by faculty from three engineering fields (electrical, civil, and biomedical) will provide additional context. Throughout the semester, students will work in groups to do research projects on a particular engineering sub/field of interest to them. Preparatory assignments will build toward a final research report on how gender matters in that particular engineering discipline.
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| LMC 3226 30595 Major Authors | Instructor: Fontaine |
| (MWF 12:20-1:10pm Skiles 371) | Major Author: David Foster Wallace |
| LMC 3226 27931 Major Authors | Instructor: Crawford |
| (TBA) | Major Author: Melville |
| Major Authors: Herman Melville and the American Encounter with the South Pacific Islands— Taught in the New Zealand as part of the Pacific Program
Although best known for his whaling novel, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville began his career as a travel writer, producing several romances based on his experiences in the South Sea islands during the first part of the 19th century. In some ways, this work could be considered proto-cultural anthropology and his observations approach the level of natural history. These books reflect on many of the questions that remain troubling even today: the relation between so-called primitive and civilized societies, the ecological responsibilities of natives and explorers, and the function of science and technology in mediating and representing encounters between these disparate groups. This course will examine these issues as they are represented in two of Melville’s novels: Typee, and Moby-Dick, some of his shorter stories, and supplementary texts including readings in Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, background on the 19th Century whaling industry, and discussions of 19th century meteorology and cartography. Specific assignments will be linked to visits the museum of New Zealand “Te Papa Tongarewa” the Wellington Maritime museum, and the National Tattoo Museum of New Zealand.
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| LMC 3234 26955 Creative Writing | Instructor: Denton |
| (MW 8:00-9:15am Swann 325)
Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course. Contact travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu w/gtid for permit
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| LMC 3234 27902 Creative Writing-Screenwriting | Instructor: Reilly |
| (MW 9:30-10:45am Skiles 343)
Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course. Contact jc.reilly@lmc.gatech.edu w/gtid for permit
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| This semester’s creative writing class will focus on screenwriting, and students will write scripts for several 3-5 minute short films, which will then be “optioned” to be filmed in LMC 3406 Video Production in a subsequent semester. We’ll do writing exercises geared to developing character, plot, conflict, genre, story, etc., as well as learning to use script writing software, reading some scripts for inspiration, “recreating” film scripts based on what we see on screen, adapting stories for the screen, sharing scripts for peer review, critiquing current films, and possibly watching film clips as appropriate. The class is fun, but writing and drafting intensive. No previous creative writing experience is necessary–just an interest in writing and films!
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| LMC 3248 Poetry & Digital Culture | Instructor: Frazee |
| (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 371)
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| LMC 3252 Film and Television | Instructor: Wood |
| (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 368) | Screenings: TH 3:00-5:00pm Skiles 368 |
| LMC 3253 Animation | Instructor: Madej |
| (MW 9:30-10:45am Skiles 308)
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| LMC 3254 Film History | Instructor: Wang |
| (MW 8:00-9:15am Skiles 371) | Screenings: M 4:30-6:30pm Skiles 371 |
| LMC 3256 Major Filmmakers | Instructor: Wang |
| (MW 9:30-10:45am Skiles 371) | Screenings: M 7:30-9:30pm Skiles 371 |
| LMC 3258 Documentary Film | Instructor: Thornton |
| (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 355)
Course restricted: Only CM FMS LMC majors |
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| Advanced Video Production—Documentary
Documentaries help shed light on significant topics, and challenge its audiences to act on relevant issues of the day. The objectives of this course are to introduce students to the art of documentary filmmaking, and to explore the ways in which documentary filmmaking can serve as a catalyst for articulating social justice issues that prompt audiences to take action. Working in small, collaborative teams, students will learn to write and produce short documentary videos on social justice issues that are specifically related to the Georgia Tech Community, the City of Atlanta, and/or the State of Georgia. The course will conclude with screenings of student work at the Plaza Theatre (ATL), as part of LMC’s 2nd Annual Social Justice Student Film Festival (LMC SJSFF). The Social Justice Student Film Festival celebrates the work of emerging filmmakers by showcasing social justice centered docs that prompt audiences to take action.
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| LMC 3262 Performance Studies: Rock History | Instructor: Auslander |
| (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 314)
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| LMC 3306 Science, Tech & Race | Instructor: J. Wilson |
| (TR 4:30-5:45pm Skiles 317) | |
| LMC 3308 Environment Ecocritic | Instructor: Loukissas |
| (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 170)
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| LMC 3314 Tech of Representation | Instructor: Klein |
| (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 370)
Course restricted: Only CM LMC majors.
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| LMC 3402 Graphic & Visual Design | Instructor: Leibert |
| (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 346) Course restricted: Only LMC majors.
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| LMC 3403 BA1 Tech Communication | Instructor: Aldinger |
| (TR 1200-0115pm 370 Skiles) Course restricted: Only BA majors | |
| LMC 3403 BA2 Tech Communication | Instructor: Aldinger |
| (TR 0130-0245pm 302 Skiles) Course restricted: Only BA majors | |
| LMC 3403 BA3 Tech Communication | Instructor: Aldinger |
| (TR 0430-0545pm 302 Skiles) Course restricted: Only BA majors | |
| LMC 3403 BA4 Tech Communication | Instructor: Rogers |
| (TR 0930-1045am 302 Skiles) Course restricted: Only BA majors. | |
| LMC 3403 BA5 Tech Communication | Instructor: Rogers |
| (TR 1200-0115pm 302 Skiles) Course restricted: Only BA majors.
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| LMC 3403 BA6 Tech Communication | Instructor: Rogers |
| (TR 0130-0245pm 370 Skiles) Course restricted: Only BA majors. | |
| LMC 3403 26983 Tech Communication | Instructor: Herrington |
| (TR 0130-0245pm 317 Skiles) Course restricted: No CS majors.
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| LMC 3403 provides information regarding the principles and concepts of technical communication and creates opportunities for students to practice technical communication skills in developing proposals, analytical reports, and related oral presentations. Students will work in experiential settings to develop materials, gather responses, and engage in critical analyses while pursuing analytical projects. Beginning with the premise that technical communication exists only within contextual situations, and both uses and creates information designed for specific purposes in specific communities (those already existing within organizations as well as those created for a unique purpose), this course asks students to explore both primary and secondary research venues to analyze situations and audiences in their own disciplines to create documents and oral presentations which communicate through effective structure, prose, and visual presentation. Students will learn to analyze and produce functional documents that reflect the results of critical analyses and other pertinent experience. The assignments will include an annotated bibliography, a well-developed analytical report, a proposal, and an oral presentation. The course will cover foundational use of technical communication’s theoretical principles and concepts, treating analyses of epistemological grounding for rhetorical purposes—both analytical and productive—visual rhetoric/document design, ethics, intellectual property, usability testing, and audience issues. The required course products are all functional in nature and replicable for different purposes once students leave Georgia Tech.
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| LMC 3403 27913 Tech Communication | Instructor: Greene |
| (TR 0800-0915am 308 Skiles) Course restricted: No CS majors.
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| LMC 3408 Rhetoric-Tech Narratives | Instructor: Burnett |
| TR 0930-1045am 005 Stephen C Hall
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| LMC 3414 Intellectual Property | Instructor: Herrington |
| (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 368)
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| Students will examine constitutionally informed policy and pragmatic legal issues in intellectual property law, focusing on the effects of power structures and information digitization. Students will master foundational understanding of intellectual property law as it affects/will affect them in their development of creative work. The course primarily provides an overview of the constitutional policy and law that drives copyright as a general structure. But it also covers statutory areas of the law that make up intellectual property, such as the protections for intellectual property: trademark, reputation and goodwill, trade secret, patent, and copyright. The range of discussion in each of these areas is determined by student interests and by their contributions, which complement regular course material.
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| LMC 3431 27052 Tech Comm Approaches | Instructor: Lozier |
| F 1010-1100am 101 Coll of Computi
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| LMC 3431 27053 Tech Comm Approaches | Instructor: Lozier |
| F 1115-1205pm 101 Coll of Computi
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| LMC 3431 28239 Tech Comm Approaches | Instructor: Lozier |
| F 1220-0110pm 101 Coll of Computi
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| LMC 3431 28240 Tech Comm Approaches | Instructor: Fitzpatrick |
| F 0155-0245pm 101 Coll of Computi
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| LMC 3431 29453 Tech Comm Approaches | Instructor: Fitzpatrick |
| F 0300-0350pm 101 Coll of Computi
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| LMC 3431 29667 Tech Comm Approaches | Instructor: Fitzpatrick |
| F 0430-0520pm 101 Coll of Computi
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| LMC 3432 29451 Tech Comm Strategies | Instructor: Kirkscey |
| (WF 3:00-3:50pm Skiles 202)
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| LMC 3432 29452 Tech Comm Strategies | Instructor: Kirkscey |
| (WF 4:30-5:20pm Skiles 202)
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| LMC 3432 27054 Tech Comm Strategies | Instructor: Lawrence |
| WF 1010-1100am 202 Skiles
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| LMC 3432 27055 Tech Comm Strategies | Instructor: Lawrence |
| WF 1115-1205pm 202 Skiles
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| LMC 3432 27056 Tech Comm Strategies | Instructor: Girard |
| WF 1220-0110pm 202 Skiles | |
| LMC 3432 28236 Tech Comm Strategies | Instructor: Girard |
| LMC 3661 Theatre Production III | Instructor: Foulger |
| (TBA) Course meets in DramaTech theater.
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| LMC 3662 26968 Theatre Production IV | Instructor: Foulger |
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| LMC 3705 26970 Prin Information Design | Instructor: Le Dantec |
| MW 0930-1045am 302 Skiles
Course restricted: Only CM majors |
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| LMC 3710 Prin Interaction Design | Instructor: Jafarinaimi |
| (MW 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 302)
Course restricted: Only CM majors. |
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| LMC 4100 N L 29884 Seminar in STAC | Instructor: Santesso |
| (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 311)
Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course.
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| STaC Seminar: Surveillance and Culture
We frequently hear that we live in a “surveillance society.” But what does this mean, exactly? Is it simply that we occupy an environment filled with CCTV cameras? Or do we mean, as the phrase implies, that our culture, philosophy and even our basic view of the world have been fundamentally changed by surveillance? In this course, we will explore the ideological and social impact of surveillance and especially surveillance technology on our society. We will read a number of literary works which deal with surveillance (by authors including Orwell, Huxley, Gibson and Philip K. Dick), watch surveillance-themed films (The Conversation, Blow Up), and explore the impact of surveillance on philosophy, architecture, social behavior and communication.
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| LMC 4102 A L 30156 Senior Thesis | Instructor: STAFF |
| (TBA) Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course.
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| LMC 4102 B L 30082 Senior Thesis | Instructor: STAFF |
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| LMC 4204 Poetry and Poetics II | Instructor: Denton |
| MW 9:30-10:45am Skiles TBA | |
| Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course.
Contact travis.denton@lmc.gatech.edu w/gtid for permit Course meets 1st floor Skiles, Poetry@Tech office (across from the main elevator)
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| LMC 4400 Seminar in Media Studies: CM Games Capstone | Instructor: Bogost |
| (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 357)
Course restricted: Only CM Jr/Sr majors. Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course Prerequisites: 2700 and 1331 or 1322 |
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| LMC 4500 Seminar in Film Studies | Instructor: Dalle Vacche |
| (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 371) | Screenings: W 3:00-5:00 Skiles 371) |
| LMC 4600 Seminar Perform Studies | Instructor: Auslander |
| (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 314)
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| LMC 4602 N L 27221 Performance Practicum | Instructor: Foulger |
| TR 1200-0115pm TBA
Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course. Contact melissa.foulger@lmc.gatech.edu w/gtid for permit. Course meets in DramaTech Theater.
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| Directing for the Stage.
Learn the fundamentals of stage direction in this project-based class that culminates in a final performance. Topics include script analysis, staging and working with actors. |
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| LMC 4720 Interactive Narrative | Instructor: J. Wilson |
| (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 269)
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| LMC 4725 Game Design | Instructor: Magerko |
| (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 357)
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| LMC 4730 Experimental Digital Art | Instructor: Madej |
| (MW 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 308)
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| LMC 4813/6340 Special Topics: Mixed Reality Design | Instructor: Bolter |
| (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 357)
Course restricted: Only CM CS majors |
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| LMC 4904 26981 Internship | Contact: Kirkbride |
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| LMC 4904 26980 Internship | Contact: Hertel |
| (TBA) Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course. Course restricted: Only LMC majors. | |