Digital Media Studies

Topics

• Examines the ways in which digital media first developed and have come to shape our engagement with contemporary culture, with a particular focus on aesthetics, form, and politics.
• 1. Identify, analyze, and describe themes in contemporary media and digital culture. 2. Acquire a conceptual vocabulary necessary for the examination of digital media technology and to understand the advantages and limits of that approach. 3. Understand the influence of digital media technologies on contemporary culture, including digital software, hardware, platforms, and interfaces. 4. Develop the research tools for advanced undergraduate writing on film and media in the area studied in the course

Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes