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The following list includes core courses in MTS as well as courses in various departments that are illustrative of work in each area of concentration. The listing is not exhaustive. Many departments offer additional topical courses that are appropriate for students in MTS.
MTS 501 Introduction to Graduate Research in Media, Technology and Society (1): Acquaints students with the research practices and professional norms typical of this field of study. It offers survey of research methods in common use including textual analysis, qualitative and quantitative methods.
MTS 502-1 Intellectual Issues in Media, Technology and Society (1): Explores the issues and ideas that have been influential in understanding media and mass culture including; research traditions; concepts of audience, spectatorship, and influence; and relations between science, technology and media culture.
MTS 502-2 Introduction to Graduate Research in Media, Technology and Society (1): Acquaints students with the scholarship and professional pursuits in various fields of media studies.
MTS 504 The Practice of Scholarship (1): Practicum to learn how to write a publishable-quality, social-scientific empirical research paper taught through weekly written exercises and critical class discussions.
MTS 525 Special Topics Research Seminar (1): Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
MTS 590 Research (1-3) : Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation.
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ANTHRO 389 Ethnographic Methods and Analysis (1): Descriptive, naturalistic study of the culture of human social groups. Data gathering through observation and interview. Data analysis for ethnographic reporting.
ART_HIST 401-1,2 Methods of Art History/Writing for Art History (1)(1): 1. Introduction to approaches in the discipline of art history; for students in the fall quarter of the first year. 2. Investigation of a philosophical or methodological approach of current interest in art history.
ART_HIST 402 Studies in Representation (1): Advanced exploration of current controversies, special problems, and new results in the study and theory of representation in the visual media. Recent offerings include convention, fantasy and representation, and pathologies of representation.
COMM_ST 329 Rhetoric, Science, and Technology (1): Contemporary debates concerning the standing and production of scientific argument. Current controversies over the social constitution and consequences of science and technology.
COMM_ST 330-1,2 Contemporary Problems in Freedom of Speech (1)(1): Personal freedom and public communication under the U.S. Constitution. First Quarter: Principles, forms of reasoning, and court decisions governing conflicts between freedom of speech and public order; personal security, morality, property rights, and racial and gender equality in traditional, mass, and new electronic media. Second Quarter: Analysis of selected issues introduced in CSD 330-1.
COMM_ST 350 Computer-Mediated Communication and Information Systems (1): Examination and analysis of tools and issues in computer-mediated communication and networked information systems; effects of new communication technologies at the interpersonal, group, social, and organizational levels.
COMM_ST 355 Audience Analysis (1): Methods used to analyze electronic media audiences, with emphasis on quantitative research techniques. Special attention is paid to the analysis of ratings data in programming, marketing, and economic policy research.
COMM_ST 360 Current Perspectives in Organizational Communication Research (1): Selected micro-and macro-level theories of communication behavior in organizational settings.
COMM_ST 414 Issues in Rhetorical Theory (1): Recurring problems in the grounding, status, and application of constructs in rhetorical theory. Primary readings in history of rhetoric treated as controversial positions.
COMM_ST 415 Seminar in Rhetorical Criticism (1): Elements of critical theory, alternative methods of rhetorical criticism, and analysis and preparation of examples of rhetorical criticism.
COMM_ST 417 Rhetoric and Social Theory (1): Major assumptions in European social theory and their implications for rhetoric; emphasis on the Frankfurt School of Social Research.
COMM_ST 455 Current Issues in Audience Studies (1): Focuses on current research and theory about media audiences. Special attention is paid to television audience behavior, theories of exposure, models of program choice, the use of audiences as commodities, and how audiences experience the media.
COMM_ST 465 The Research Literature of Organizational Communication (1): Major viewpoints and theoretical contributions to the research literature on communication behavior in organizational, institutional, and social system contexts.
COMM_ST 472 Mass Media and the Constitution of the Social World (1): Seminar examines the processes by which the mass media generate and disseminate the symbol systems constitutive of social reality. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
COMM_ST 473 Mass Media and the Forces of Social Change (1): Teaches students how to study political history using media sources as research tools. Explores how media texts (newspapers, books, magazines, films, television programs, etc.) can help scholars understand a variety of political and social trends. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
COMM_ST 474 Mass Media and Democratic Theory (1): Considers the impact of the mass media, especially television, on political power and consciousness in the United States. Particular emphasis on the domain of US government policy making. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
COMM_ST 475 Seminar in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Culture (1): Strategies of influence in contemporary culture; field studies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
COMM_ST 484 Mind and Society in the Information Age (1): Examines the historical origins as well as the psychological, social, and cultural consequences of the technologies and industries that are powering the "information revolution." Prerequisites: Permission of instructor required.
COMM_ST 486 Social Implications of Information and Communication Technologies (1): Analysis of the social, political, cultural and economic contexts in which information and communication technologies are embedded.
COMM_ST 487 Legal and Political Dimensions of Telecommunications (1): A study of legal and regulatory processes affecting mass media and common carrier (voice and data transmission) communications industries. Examines specific laws and regulations and the policy-making process.
COMP_LIT 481 Studies in Literary Theory (1): Central issues of criticism, exemplified by the writings of major theorists.
COMP_LIT 486 Studies in Literature and the Disciplines (1): Topics in the encounter between literary studies and other culturally oriented disciplines (e.g., philosophy, history, and anthropology) with an emphasis on problems of theory and method. Content varies.
COMP_LIT 487 Studies in Literature and the Arts (1): The relation between literature and the visual arts and/or music. Content varies.
CSD 404-1,2 Experimental Design and Statistics in Communication Sciences and Disorders (1)(1): First Quarter: Experimental design. Higher-order experimental methods; research designs. Applications. Analysis of variance procedures, linear correlation and regression, and problems in design and interpretation of research. Second Quarter: Advanced statistics. Covariance, factor, and nonparametric analysis. Multivariate procedures and test statistics; research applications.
EECS 313 Telecommunication Networks for Multimedia (1): Signals and bandwidth concepts, spectra, basics of electronics, information and coding, modulation, multiplexing, transmission systems, transmission media, analog versus digital communications, computer networks, and switching techniques. Not for Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students.
ENGLISH 413 Studies in the Novel (1): Content varies. Samples: Richardson and Fielding; Gothic fiction; Dickens; theory of the novel from James to Kermode.
ENGLISH 465 Studies in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1): Content varies. Colonial and postcolonial literatures of Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other formerly colonized cultures, with attention to theoretical accounts of colonial and postcolonial culture.
FRENCH 470 Comparative Studies in a French and Francophone Context (1): Content varies. Studies of a motif, theme, genre or theoretical issue across languages, either Europhone or vernacular and dialectal forms.
FRENCH 490 Special Topics in Literature (1): Content varies. Samples: literature of the African diaspora; women's autobiography.
FRENCH 492 Topics in Culture and Society (1): Content varies. Samples: culture and politics of the 1920s and 1930s; early modern print culture; the Situationist International.
GERMAN 441 Studies in Communication and Culture (1): Content varies. Samples; feminist literature, media studies, the history of literary journals, and other specific topics representative of current research interests. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
HISTORY 405 Seminar in Historical Analysis (1): Topics vary.
IEMS 413 Information Systems and Telecommunications Management (1): Conceptual and practical approaches to problems in telecommunications management. Understanding of strategic applications of technology in communications-based information system environments. Implementation process in complex networks.
ITALIAN 380 Topics in Italian Cinema (1): Major Italian filmmakers, cinematic trends, and production techniques; individual directors or a movement (such as existentialist film, neorealism, or cinema of the 1970s). ITALIAN 498 Independent Reading (1)
MGMT 463 Technology Management (1): Dual emphasis on the management of technology development and innovation with the economic utilization of such technology. Specific analytical and management techniques and transportation-related innovation case studies.
MORS 424-1 The Individual and the Organization (1): Individual behavior in organizational settings. Topics include recent theory and research on social cognition, decision making, negotiation, groups, norms, fairness, and equity theory.
MORS 424-2 Social Processes in Organizations (1): Group behavior in organizational settings. Topics include recent theory and research on group formation, social influence, group composition, group performance, group decision making, diversity, coalitions, intergroup relations and social dilemmas.
MORS 425-1 Behavior in Organizational Systems (1): Theory construction, with effort at verification, drawing on empirical studies. Macro-level analysis of internal organizational system problems such as goals, structure, roles, power, authority, communications, and controls.
MORS 425-2 Organizations in Their Environments (1): Analysis of organizations in their environments, focusing on cross-cultural and cross-institutional research, the ecology, the way internal characteristics condition external relations, and the way environments influence internal processes.
MORS 520 Seminar in Organization Behavior (1): Selected current topics for Ph.D. students.
PERF_ST 327 Field Methods in Performance Studies (1): Theory and practice of fieldwork in performance, from the collection of data to the write-up of material; practical fieldwork experience.
PERF_ST 410 Studies in Performance (1): Principles governing the congruence of literary texts and their oral presentation.
PERF_ST 416 Seminar in Cultural Studies and Performance (1): Contemporary theories on the dialogical relationship between culture and performance (performative anthropology, interpretive and symbolic ethnography). Creative, dynamic, and processual energies of culture as expressed in performance genres.
PERF_ST 426 Seminar on Media and Performance (1): Interdisciplinary seminar introducing methods of performance research that explore, both analytically and creatively, the movement of performance across the traditional boundaries of the live arts and the visual and electronic media.
PERF_ST 427 Seminar on Modes of Representation (1): Theories of representation applied to performance; repetition and improvisation, the ideology of form, intertextuality, metaphor, irony, parody, synesthesia, idiophonics, and effort qualities in human action.
PERF_ST 518 Seminar: Problems in Research (1): For MA and PhD students only.
POLI_SCI 465 Basic Concepts in Political Theory (1): Focused study of one concept through selected texts of different periods in the tradition of political thinking (e.g., equality, freedom, gender, justice, republicanism, liberalism). May be repeated for credit with different concepts.
POLI_SCI 466 Feminist Political Theory (1): Examination of contemporary feminist debates about the category of women, the subject, the body, and community after identity politics.
PSYCH 453 Linear Models: Correlation and Regression (1): Linear models approach to design and analysis of experiments and quasi-experiments. Basic concepts in correlation and regression: partial and semipartial correlation, matrix notation, least squares methods, and dummy variables.
PSYCH 454 Psychological Measurement (1): Measurement theories and their implications for the quantification of psychological constructs.
RTVF 310-1,2 History of Broadcasting (1)(1): Evolution of US radio and television; development of the industry and important programs; evolution of programming and audience; survey of literature and research, trends, cultural influences, and issues.
RTVF 312-1,2 History of Film (1)(1): International survey of motion pictures as a distinctive medium of expression from film's prehistory to the present.
RTVF 313-1 Documentary Film: History and Criticism (1): Survey of the schools, styles, and purposes of documentary film as a unique form of artistic expression and sociopolitical political persuasion.
RTVF 323-1 Experimental Film: History and Criticism (1): Films and theories of experimentalists since the 1920s; the contemporary underground movement.
RTVF 330 Electronic Media Management (1): Organization and management of the television station and other electronic media organizations and facilities; the functions and interrelationships of various departments.
RTVF 333 Cable Communications (1): Legal, technical, and programming aspects of cable and satellite communications. Services offered by existing systems and the complexities of developing systems.
RTVF 341 Technological Innovations (1): How technology develops and is assimilated into mass media.
RTVF 342 Program Planning and Programming (1): Programming the broadcast station in relation to audiences, markets, coverage, station policies, and facilities.
RTVF 345 Film as Business (1): Institutional view of the American film industry; structure and policies related to production, distribution, and exhibition. Relations of the film industry, US government, foreign governments, and other segments of the entertainment business are examined.
RTVF 402 Television and Media Theory (1): Seminar in the key historical and contemporary debates shaping the study of television and emerging electronic media.
RTVF 403 Media and Cultural Theory (1): Seminar in cultural theory with emphasis on issues of cultural production in film, television, and digital media.
RTVF 410 Media Historiography (1): Introduction to historiography with emphasis on the research and writing of history in film, television, and digital media.
RTVF 420 Film Theory and Criticism (1): Seminar surveying historical and contemporary issues in the analysis of film form and spectatorship.
RTVF 422 Textual Analysis (1): Seminar in the textual analysis of film, television, and digital media.
RTVF 550 Research Seminar: Telecommunications Management (1): An advanced study of telecommunications management issues.
RTVF 584 Research Seminar (1): Topics vary.
SOCIOL 302 Sociology of Organizations (1): Structure and function of formal organizations, especially in business and government. Stratification, social control, and conflict. Discretion, rules, and information in achieving goals. Modes of participation and development of informal norms.
SOCIOL 401-1 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods I (1): Introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of linear regression analysis: descriptive statistics,analysis of variance, ordinary least squares (OLS), and regression diagnostics. STATA used for computation. For first-year graduate students in sociology.
SOCIOL 401-2 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods II (1): Regression models with categorical and discrete outcomes: categorical variables, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), probit and logistic regression, logit models, tobit models, and advanced STATA techniques. For first-year graduate students in sociology.
SOCIOL 402 Event-History Analysis (1): Introduction to event-history (survival) analysis: common nonparametric, semiparametric and parametric models for both continuous and discrete time intervals; practical data management techniques in STATA. Prerequisites: SOCIOL 401-2 or permission of instructor.
SOCIOL 403 Field Methods (1): Application of the methods of case study, interviewing, and participant observation.
SOCIOL 404 Designs for Descriptive Causal Research in Field Settings (1): Theories of causation. Analysis of the ability of various experimental and quasi-experimental designs to promote the end of two types of causal inference.
SOCIOL 405 Research Methods (1): Fundamentals of research design, sampling, data collection, and data analysis. May include questionnaire design, aspects of archival research, content analysis, and the relationship between methods, analytic techniques, and the building and confirming of theoretical models.
SOCIOL 416 New Perspectives on Gender in Society (1): Importance of gender in paid work, feminist revisions of mainstream theory in the social sciences, gender and power, the roles of Third World women under colonialism and after independence, and the relationship of work to the family. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 420 Cultural Sociology and the Sociology of Culture (1): Production, distribution, reception of culture; culture and meaning; cultural approaches to social boundaries, social problems; local and global cultures.
SOCIOL 439 Comparative and Historical Sociology (1): Theoretical and methodological issues in the comparison of whole societies and other macrosocial units. Contrasts approaches that emphasize variables with those that emphasize cases (i.e., countries) and their histories. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 440 Stratification, Race, and Gender (1): Issues in current research and theory in stratification, race, and gender. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. For graduate students.
STAT 330-1,2 Applied Statistics for Research I, II (1)(1): First Quarter: Design of experiments and surveys, numerical summaries of data, graphical summaries of data, correlation and regression, probability, sample mean, sample proportion, confidence intervals and tests of significance, one and two sample problems, ANOVA. Second Quarter: Simple linear regression, inference, diagnostics, multiple regression diagnostics, autocorrelation, 1-way ANOVA, power and sample size determination, 2-way ANOVA, ANCOVA, randomized block designs.
TH&DRAMA 502 Topics in Theatre (1): The history, theory, or literature of theater. Course material varies.
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