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This course introduces analysis techniques for complex structures and the role of material properties in structural design, failure, and longevity. Students will learn about the energy principles in structural analysis and their applications to statically-indeterminate structures and solid continua. Additionally, the course will examine mat
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- aeronautics and astronautics
- expository writing
- analyzing
- mass
- media
- voice
- academic
- writing
- self-discovery
- critical thinking
- communicating
- audience
- drafting
- revising
- essays
- analysis techniques
- complex structures
- material properties
- structural design
- failure
- longevity
- energy principles
- structural analysis
- statically-indeterminate structures
- solid
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Everyday we are bombarded with the word "global" and encouraged to see globalization as the quintessential transformation of our age. But what exactly does "globalization" mean? How is it affecting the lives of people around the world, not only in economic, but social and cultural terms? How do contemporary changes compare with those from o
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- anthropology
- anthropology
- marketing
- globalization
- culture
- class
- economic status
- social dynamics
- technology
- capitalism
- java
- amazon
- france
- united states
- bombay
- india
- japan
- immigration
- film
- workers
- tourism
- factory labor
- global
- economic transformation
- media
- political transformation
- geographic tranformation
- history
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This class serves as an introduction to video recording and editing, presenting video as a tool of personal apprehension and expression, with an emphasis on self-exploration, performance, social critique, and the organization of raw experience into aesthetic form (narrative, abstract, documentary, essay). Students are required to complete a
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- architecture
- movies
- filmmaking
- digital video
- storytelling
- modern art
- media
- computerized editing
- personal story
- emotional art
- fluxus
- bill viola
- digital representation
- video recording
- editing
- self-exploration
- performance
- social critique
- aesthetic form
- narrative
- abstract
- documentary
- essay
- video capture
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This advanced video class serves goes into greater depth on the topics covered in 4.351 , Introduction to Video. It also will explore the nature and function of narrative in cinema and video through exercises and screenings culminating in a final project. Starting with a brief introduction to the basic principles of classical narrative cine
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- architecture
- movies
- filmmaking
- digital video
- storytelling
- modern art
- media
- computerized editing
- personal story
- emotional art
- fluxus
- bill viola
- digital representation
- story trajectory
- character development
- verisimilitude
- time-space continuity
- viewer identification
- suspension of disbelief
- closure
- narrative cinema
- speculative biography
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This course will serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary academic study of videogames, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. By playing, analyzing, and reading and writing about videogames, we will examine debates surrounding how they function within socially situated contexts in ord
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- comparative media studies
- online game
- gaming
- computer games
- mmog
- simulation
- massively multiplayer online game
- critical theory
- cultural studies
- critical analysis
- gender
- game culture
- media
- video game
- student work
- race
- storytelling
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History of Media and Technology addresses the mutually influential histories of communications media and technological development, focusing on the shift from analog to digital cultures that began mid-century and continues to the present. The approach the series takes to the study of media and technology is a multifaceted one that includes
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- comparative media studies
- communications media technological development eternal war
- history of media
- media
- technology
- propaganda
- war
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This course fulfills the first half of the Comparative Media Studies workshop sequence requirement for entering graduate students. The workshop sequence provides an opportunity for a creative, hands-on project development experience and emphasizes intellectual growth as well as the acquisition of technical skills. The course is designed to
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- comparative media studies
- comparative
- media
- studies
- workshop
- visual narrative
- digital
- images
- web gallery
- soundscapes
- storytelling
- digital video
- flash animation
- machinima
- games
- class blog
- location-based narratives
- handheld devices
- pda
- cellphones
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This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of commercial videogames as texts, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. Students play and analyze videogames while examining debates surrounding how games function within socially situated contexts. Readings include contemporary ga
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- comparative media studies
- online game
- gaming
- computer games
- mmog
- simulation
- massively multiplayer online game
- critical theory
- cultural studies
- critical analysis
- gender
- game culture
- media
- video game
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Within twenty-four hours of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 politicians, artists, and cultural critics had begun to ask how to memorialize the deaths of thousands of people. This question persists today, but it can also be countered with another: is building a monument the best way to commemorate that moment in hi
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- foreign languages and literatures
- world trade center
- september 11
- memorial
- discourse
- media
- art
- collective memory
- germany
- japan
- global commerce
- transportation systems
- surveillance
- non-western cultures
- oppositional political formations
- robert musil
- maurice halbwachs
- shusaku arakawa
- michael hogan
- ariella azoulay
- chomsky
- freud
- edward said
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This course examines Japanese popular culture as a way of understanding the changing character of media, capitalism, fan communities and culture. Topics include manga (comic books), hip-hop and other popular music in Japan, anime (Japanese animated films) and feature films, sports (sumo, soccer, baseball), and online communication. Emphasis
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- foreign languages and literatures
- japan
- popular culture
- media
- capitalism
- comics
- hip-hop
- music
- animation
- movie
- sports
- sexuality
- race
- gender
- fan communities
- culture
- manga
- pop
- popular music
- anime
- japanese animated films
- power
- global culture industries
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This interdisciplinary course surveys modern European culture to disclose the alignment of literature, opposition, and revolution. Reaching back to the foundational representations of anarchism in nineteenth-century Europe (Kleist, Conrad) the curriculum extends through the literary and media representations of militant organizations in the
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- foreign languages and literatures
- plotting
- terrorism
- european
- culture
- literature
- opposition
- revolution
- anarchism
- kleist
- conrad
- red brigade
- italy
- red army faction
- germany
- real irish republican army
- media
- ireland
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This course examines cultural performances of Asia, including both traditional and contemporary forms, in a variety of genres. Students will explore the communicative power of performances with attention to the ways performers, media, cultural settings, and audiences interact. The representation of cultural difference is considered and how
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- foreign languages and literatures
- cultural performances
- asia
- traditional
- contemporary
- genres
- performers
- media
- cultural settings
- audiences
- globalization
- live
- video
- audio
- online
- english
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The goal of this course is to review grammar and develop vocabulary building strategies to refine oral and written expression. Speaking and writing assignments are designed to expand communicative competence. Assignments are based on models and materials drawn from contemporary media (newspapers and magazines, television, Web). The models,
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- foreign languages and literatures
- academic english
- english grammer
- english writing skill
- spoken english
- language
- academic communication
- vocabulary
- english
- second language
- oral
- speaking
- writing
- media
- newspaper
- magazine
- television
- web
- internet
- grammar
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Prepares students for working and living in German-speaking countries. Focus on current political, social, and cultural issues, using newspapers, journals, TV, radio broadcasts, and Web sources from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Emphasis on speaking, writing, and reading skills for professional contexts. Activities include: oral presen
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- foreign languages and literatures
- german
- switzerland
- austria
- contemporary culture
- politics
- society
- speaking
- reading
- writing
- literature
- language
- media
- intermediate
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The topic for Fall 2006 is short film and radio plays. This course investigates current trends and topics in German literary, theater, film, television, radio, and other media arts productions. Students analyze media texts in the context of their production, reception, and distribution as well as the public debates initiated by these works.
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- foreign languages and literatures
- german
- germany
- kurtzfilm
- radio
- radio plays
- theater
- film
- television
- media
- media text
- production
- filmmaker
- art
- broadcast
- experimental radio art
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Spanish II continues to develop students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills using the second part of the video-based program, Destinos, begun in Spanish I. Destinos is a soap opera that allows students to learn Spanish and experience its cultural diversity while following a good story full of surprises and human emotions. Span
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- foreign languages and literatures
- spanish
- language
- foreign
- understand
- speak
- read
- fluency
- destinos
- culture
- diversity
- film
- media
- grammar
- vocabulary
- reading
- writing
- speaking
- listening comprehension
- espanol
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