With the spring semester’s conclusion right around the corner, It’s time to select courses for the summer session. There are multiple sessions to choose from, including convenient Maymester and Augmester courses. Learn more about the summer session and its deadlines, or discover a course you’d like to take. CMCI will be offering a menu of classes during the summer, including some of the exciting ones below!
Visual Design (APRD 3001)
Meets: May 11-29
This course is a blend of criticality and practicality, emphasizing design thinking, design history and design principles. This course serves to install––and build upon––your ability to display and articulate design elements like research, rebranding, brand extension and storytelling via a rich visual vocabulary of type, color, image and form. It's hands-on, engaging and relevant.
Critical Perspectives in Media Practices (CMDP 3450)
Meets: May 11-29
This course fulfills the CMCI humanities and the arts core requirement and is an incredible opportunity to get to work with filmmaker and anthropologist Stephanie Spray. The course examines the contemporary landscape of documentary media practice with a focus on production context, circulation and reception. Please contact Stephanie Spray if you’re interested or have questions about the course.
Strategic Communication Research Methods (APRD 3003)
Meets: June 1-July 2
Have you ever thought about how Trump or Obama won the election? Or about the methods organizations use to create and promote their products? This class will focus on research methods that are frequently used in the public relations and advertising fields to target strategic communication. Quantitative and qualitative methods will be presented to the students who will be able to identify the differences between methods and their applicability.
Approaches to Historical Media Practices (CMDP 2100)
Meets: June 1-July 2
This course fulfills the CMCI historical views core requirement. It investigates historical and cultural discourses in the formation of media practices. The class looks at a range of practices through a historical lens, including performance media, cinematic media and media art.
Designing Interactions (INFO 1121-300)
Meets: June 1-July 24
This course provides an introduction to human-centered design and the universal requirements of interactions with data, information and technologies. Studio experiences challenge students to consider the impact that information and computing technology design choices have on enabling diverse audiences to access, manipulate and experience information––and how differences get encoded by data and technology, ultimately reflecting biases.
Special Topics: Ecomedia (MDST 4871)
Meets: July 7-August 7
This course looks at the intersection between screen culture––film, TV, online video––and the environment, challenging students to address the most pressing global problem of the 21st century through a variety of artistic and critical works. How do movies shape our understanding of the natural world? How are environmental values connected to issues of social justice? What is the carbon footprint of media production and digital culture?