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Introductory survey of media theory and research.

This course introduces recent developments in media theory and criticism. Rather than focusing on media contents/texts and the effects these texts are supposed to produce in media consumers, new media theory seeks to analyze media as forms or practices by which knowledge and representations are made possible. This is a reading-intensive course. Reading materials include B. Latour, F. Kittler, P. Szendy, and others.

This course examines how media forms present images of the future; course activities integrate each student's General Education courses, Communication courses, and social experiences on campus to critically examine the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability as it pertains to living in the future. How we synthesize images from our experiences and apply these filters to conceptualizing the Information Society is key.

Why do we put certain films into categories? What constitutes a film genre, how do we recognize it, and what do we do with it? This course examines these questions and more by considering a specific genre over the course of the semester. We will learn to think of genre as a way of comparing and contrasting different films. Genre will also be thought of as a way of creating expectations and measuring experience and meaning. The power of film genre is that it allows us to understand film as a text and film as a social practice at the very same time.

Critical survey of basic issues concerning knowledge. Representative questions include What is knowledge? Can knowledge be purely a priori? Is there a defensible distinction between the analytic and the synthetic? What is the nature of empirical evidence? Is it possible to justify inductive inference? How can we confirm beliefs about unobservable entities?

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We investigate one of the following topics in depth. The computational model, the problem of naturalizing intentionality, internalism vs. externalism, the problem of naturalizing conscious experience, the relation between perception and cognition.

Introduction to the history of modern philosophy; emphasis on Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, and Hume. When taken with PHIL 398W,this course satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement in Philosophy. Prerequisite: Two courses in Philosophy. (Gen.Ed. HS)

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