Media Archaeology

Prerequisites: CASCI 101 or CASCI 102 or CASCI 200 or CASLG 387/CASCI 320 or CASCI 512. - Explores the history and historiography of early cinema's historical relationships with other media and communications technologies and with early 20th-century discourses on human-machine interactions, providing insight by analogy into our current state of media revolution. Effective Spring 2027, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU HUB areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking, Historical Consciousness.