• Media Theory
• Campus: Claremont McKenna
• Instructor: Morrison, James E.
• Time: MW 01:15-02:30PM

This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20th-century “mass culture.” We will take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of “mass culture”; the cinematic representation of the “masses;” film as an instrument of the standardization of culture and as a mode of resistance to it; film and modernism; film and postmodernism; representations of fascism in cinema; and “subculture” considered as an effect of mass culture.

• Media Theory
• Campus: Claremont McKenna
• Instructor: Morrison, James E.
• Time: MW 02:45-04:00PM

This course investigates the major film theories from the beginnings of cinema to the present. We begin with a study of classical film theory (1900-1960) that attempts to define the essence of the form, its relation to reality, and its status as mass medium and/or art. We then move on to more recent work that examines film from ideological, sociological, or psychological perspectives, or considers the changing nature of cinema in the digital age.

• Elective
• Campus: Claremont McKenna
• Instructor: Espinosa, Gaston
• Time: R 06:00-10:00PM

This course employs critical social, race, gender, and post-colonial theories to analyze the role of religious symbols, rhetoric, values, and world-views in American film. After briefly examining film genre, structure, and screenwriting, the course will explore religious sensibilities in six genres such as: Historical Epic, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama, and Politics.

• Media History or Media Theory
• Campus: Harvey Mudd
• Instructor: Balseiro, Isabel
• Time: TR 09:35-10:50AM

A thematic and formal study of the range of cinematic responses to the experience of exile. Exile is an event, but how does it come about and what are its ramifications? Exile happens to individuals but also to collectivities. How does it effect a change between the self and society, homeland and site of displacement, mother tongue and acquired language? This course examines how filmmakers take on an often painful historical process through creativity. Among the authors to read are Aime Cesaire, Edward Said, George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, Med Hondo, and Hamid Naficy; films to be viewed focus on the third world. HSA Writing Intensive: No

• Art History
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Ennis, Ciara
• Time: M 02:45-05:30PM

An examination of contemporary art in the context of economic and cultural globalization. Topics include the impact of the end of the Cold War and the rise of economic neoliberalism on the arts; the emergence of new global art centers in the wake of major political transformations, such as the fall of South African Apartheid; contemporary Native American and Australian Aboriginal artists in the global marketplace; and artists’ response to issues of nationalism, ethnic violence, terrorism, and war. Spring, B. Anthes.

• Media History or Intermediate/Advanced Production
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Lerner, Jesse
• Time: TR 01:15-02:30PM

This course involves production, a historical survey of documentary practices in photography, film and video and a discussion of the ethical and ideological issues raised by the genre. Students will be expected to produce two short documentary projects in any media. Prerequisite: MS 50 or MS 49.

• Media History or Media Theory
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Lamb, Gina
• Time: MW 11:00AM-12:15PM

Overview of movements, theories, and methods employed by media makers committed to social change. From Soviet film collectives, through Third Cinema movement of 60s, to feminist, queer, and youth video activist movements in the U.S. that have laid the groundwork for the rise of socially driven media collectives and campaigns today.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Ann Kaneko
• Time: MW 10:00AM-12:30PM

This is an introductory course In digital video production. This class encourages a critical, creative approach to the medium, non-traditional solutions, and explanation of the history and methodology of independent video and video art. Class session combines hands-on technical training in script writing, storyboarding, camera operation, off-line and non-linear editing, lighting, and sound equipment with critical analysis of subject matter, treatment, and modes of address in independent as well as mass media.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Ann Kaneko
• Time: MW 04:15-06:45PM

This is an introductory course in digital video production. This class encourages a critical, creative approach to the medium, non-traditional solutions, and explanation of the history and methodology of independent video and video art. Class session combines hands-on technical training in script writing, storyboarding, camera operation, off-line and non-linear editing, lighting, and sound equipment with critical analysis of subject matter, treatment, and modes of address in independent as well as mass media.

• Media History or Media Theory or Intermediate/Advanced Production
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Talmor, Ruti
• Time: TR 11:00AM-12:15PM

In recent years, as the Anthropocene has become a central framework within the academy, the subfield of ecocinema has developed within media studies. This course will focus on ecodocumentary. Topics include environmental/manmade catastrophe, industrialization, anthropogenic climate change, interspecies relations, ecojustice, environmental racism, consumerism, and waste. Readings will draw from a range of fields including ecocriticism and ecocinema studies. Supported by the Robert Redford Conservancy (RRC), this course will teach students the history, theory, and production of ecodocumentary. By the end of the course, student teams will have collaborated with RRC partners in the Inland Empire to create short documentaries.

• Intro. Critical
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Affuso, Elizabeth
• Time: MW 01:15-02:30PM

This course introduces the discipline of media studies to students and gives them foundational knowledge of the field. The readings and screenings comprise a range of approaches and will allow students to address media in a variety of styles and modes of practice, including film, television, and new media.

• Senior Seminar
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Ma, Ming-Yuen
• Time: TR 01:15-02:30PM

Senior Seminar. Jointly-taught seminar designed for senior majors. Review of key issues/theories in media studies.

• Intermediate/Advanced Production
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Lamb, Gina
• Time: MW 01:15-02:30PM

This course is a combination of analysis, theory, and hands-on service-learning experience of how media arts mobilize, educate, and empower communities. The course will examine working models of media-based community collaboration projects. Students will be linked with non-profit community collaborators (media arts centers, social service, and youth service agencies) who are using media as a catalyst for action in their community. Working with site hosts/collaborators, students will work with underserved populations to design, implement and produce unique media collaborations that provoke thought and action. Course Fee $150

• Elective
• Campus: Pitzer
• Instructor: Affuso, Elizabeth
• Time: To Be Arranged

Internship in media related industry or institution integrated with significant and clear connection to academic curriculum through independent written or production project.

• Media Theory
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis J.
• Time: R 1:15-4:00 PM

Interdisciplinary seminar explores the ascension of intersectional feminism(s) produced by trailblazing Black women artists, theorists, and activists. Assigned creative and critical interventions interrogate the ways interlocking constructs of race (aestheticized moral ranking system), gender, sexuality, class, religion, and citizenship inform self-perceptions, social status, creative practices, as well as political and economic relationships of power. Situating contemporary feminist work historically, thematically- organized materials highlight key written and visual texts by the nineteenth century and twentieth-century foremothers. Students will compare and contrast strategies for living, thinking, and visualizing love-driven efforts to raise consciousness, manifest political and economic change, and energize social transformations across the African diaspora.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis J.
• Time: T 1:15-4:00 PM

Survey exploring aesthetic, formal, cultural, and national diversity of African arts and architecture. Emphasis on the social, political, and religious dynamics fostering art production, iconographic themes, and aesthetic philosophies at specific historic moments in West, Central and North Africa. Critical study of Western art historical approaches and methods used to study diverse traditional African arts and post-independence cinema. Letter grade only.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Auerbach, Lisa Anne
• Time: MW 01:15-03:45PM

Black and White Photography. Introductory photography course focuses on traditional black and white processes. Readings and lectures about issues, ideas, and photographers give students the opportunity to contextualize their own work within the trajectory of photographic history. Emphasis falls equally on questions of “how?” and “why?” and a final self-directed project allows students to explore their specific interests.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Staff
• Time: MW 01:15-03:45PM

Foundations of 2D Design is a hands-on introduction to the principles of visual design.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Allen, Mark
• Time: TR 01:15-03:45PM

Foundations of 2D Design is a hands-on introduction to the principles of visual design.

• Intro. Critical
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Friedlander, Jennifer
• Time: TR 09:35-10:50AM

Introduction to Media Studies. Presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis, and the construction of content. Read theory, history, and fiction; view films and television programs; and write research and opinion papers. Same course as SC 49.

• Intro. Critical
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Wynter, Kevin
• Time: TR 01:15-02:30PM

One of three gateway courses to the Media Studies major, this course introduces film and video from aesthetic, historical, and political perspectives. Students learn the basic categories necessary to comprehend formally the filmic image: cinematography, mise-en-scene, and editing. Students study the history of genres and film movements and engage the theory and politics of filmic representation. Same course as LIT 130 CM.

• Intro. Critical
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Moralde, Oscar John-Arellano
• Time: MW 11:00AM-12:15PM

Introduction to Digital Media Studies. An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of digital and electronic media, exploring the relationships between old and new media forms, the historical development of computer-based communication and the ways that new technologies are reshaping literature, art, journalism, and the social world.

• Intro. Critical
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Moralde, Oscar John-Arellano
• Time: MW 01:15-02:30PM

Introduction to Digital Media Studies. An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of digital and electronic media, exploring the relationships between old and new media forms, the historical development of computer-based communication and the ways that new technologies are reshaping literature, art, journalism, and the social world.

• Media History or Media Theory
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Moralde, Oscar John-Arellano
• Time: MW 02:45-04:00PM

This course provides students with the intellectual framework and critical vocabulary to examine video games as media texts via aesthetics: the value of gameplay experiences and how we fit them into our lives. How do we play, and why? The course will also address questions of politics: how can games shape, and how are they shaped by, the current of public life? Who gets to play, particularly along lines of race, gender, sexuality, and class? Live and recorded gameplay demonstrations will provide students with the material for criticism and inquiry, alongside contemporary critical games writing that will serve as models for their own writing projects. Participants do not need previous experience with games or computers, but only a willingness to engage with games and gameplay within a critical context. Prerequisites: One of MS 049 PO, MS 050 PO, MS 051 PO or MS 092 PO.

• Media History or Media Theory
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Young, Damon R.
• Time: W 08:00-10:00PM
• Time: F 01:15-04:00PM

This seminar explores the intersection of cinema and media aesthetics, sexuality, and queer theory. We will consider a range of creative works from the era of silent cinema through to contemporary online media, asking how sexuality functions within them as a disturbing force shaping what can be seen and what cannot be articulated, and how they draw on and interrogate ideas of desire, the couple, the family, community, reproduction, and sociality itself. To this analysis we will bring resources from critical theory, especially feminist, queer, and trans theory. Weekly film screening required.

• Media Theory
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Friedlander, Jennifer
• Time: T 01:15-04:00PM

This course interrogates John Fiske’s contention that “pleasure may be the bait on the hook of hegemony, but it is always more than this; it always involves an element that escapes the system of power.” With this claim in mind, we will: 1) evaluate key arguments in the field regarding pleasure’s complicity with dominant ideological frameworks–particularly with regard to normative views of gender, race, class and sexuality; 2) consider ways in which the critique of pleasure itself may collude with patriarchal, racist, classist, and heteronormative systems of thought; and 3) explore the possibilities for pleasure to undermine established systems of power. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: MS 049 PO, MS 050 PO, and MS 051 PO.

• Media History or Media Theory
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Wynter, Kevin
• Time: TR 02:45-04:00PM
• Time: W 07:00-10:00PM

This course introduces students to the history and theory of global cinema. We will discuss and analyze a variety of filmmakers and film movements from around the globe, ranging from the silent period to the present. We will study voices from East and West cinema, with regards to film language, aesthetics, and politics, as well as their film style and genre. Along the way, we will learn a number of terms and theoretical concepts, including formalism, realism, surrealism, post-colonialism, modernity, postmodernity, and globalization.

• Media Theory
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Young, Damon R.
• Time: W 01:15-04:00PM

The rapid development of A.I. technologies, in which machines take on functions previously associated with human cognition, raises the question of what, if anything, is unique to human experience: a capacity for desire? humor? abstract thinking? aesthetic judgment? In this class we will examine how the boundary between the human and the machine appears as an object of investigation in contemporary literature and film, as well as in media theory and critical theory. These texts bear on topics that include surveillance and facial recognition; techno-utopianism and dystopianism; the algorithmic reproduction of bias; and the technological sublime. Students will work on creative research projects that may take a range of forms.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Beetz, Rachel
• Time: MW 01:15-02:30PM

Introductory laboratory course designed to develop electronic compositions using techniques of analog and digital synthesis. Permission of instructor required.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Sher, Shlomo
• Time: TR 02:45-04:00PM
• Time: F 01:15-04:00PM

Survey of major models, methods, and findings in cognitive psychology. Topics will include perception, attention, memory, reasoning, decision making, and the development of expertise. Insights will be drawn from behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and the study of brain mechanisms. Prerequisites: 51.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Cahill, Paul H.
• Time: MWF 10:00-10:50AM

Spanish Film: Tradition and Transgression. Explores a selection of representative Spanish cinematic production and highlights the tension between tradition and transgression. Class discussions situate these films within their socio-historical context as well as within the context of the development of Spanish film and the Spanish film industry. Emphasis on gender, aesthetics, and politics. Prerequisite: 44 or 50. Letter grade only.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Ratteray, Carolyn
• Time: MW 01:15-03:45PM

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization, and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation, and performance of scenes.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Staff
• Time: MW 01:15-03:45PM

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization, and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation, and performance of scenes.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Staff
• Time: TR 09:35AM-12:05PM

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization, and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation, and performance of scenes.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Staff
• Time: TR 01:15-03:45PM

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization, and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation, and performance of scenes.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: French, Monica M.
• Time: TR 09:35-10:50AM

The visual principles underlying design for live performance: theatre, dance, opera, and related fields. The course explores theatre architecture, staging conventions, and styles of historic and contemporary design. Readings, discussions, and writing are supplemented by creative projects, video showings and attendance at live performances, both on-campus and at professional venues in the Los Angeles area.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Ortega, Giovanni
• Time: TR 01:15-03:45PM

This course continues the investigation of Stanislavski-based acting techniques which began in the Basic Acting class. Students will also explore voice and speech techniques which will aid them in understanding breath support, resonation, and articulation. The teachings of Sanford Meisner and/or Stella Adler are employed as students learn to deepen their connection to contemporary and realistic plays. May be repeated twice for credit. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: THEA 001A PO or THEA001D or THEA 001G PO.

• Elective
• Campus: Pomona
• Instructor: Ratteray, Carolyn
• Time: MW 10:00AM-12:30PM

This course develops technical and conceptual techniques for the interpretation and performance of comedy and drama for film, television, and emerging technologies. Students will audition, rehearse, and perform on camera a variety of scenes from film and theatre. Students will analyze and critique their on-camera work, as well as the work of classmates and established actors. Prerequisites: Any THEA001, or THEA 008 PO; and THEA 012 PO.

• Art History
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Lum, Julia
• Time: TR 1:15-2:30PM

This seminar investigates photographic archives as sites of memory and forgetting. Engaging a range of theoretical, critical, and art-historical texts, students will examine how photography participates in ideas about collective identity, surveillance, territorial imagination, and institutions of knowledge. The course will also discuss the work of artists and photographers whose practices draw from—and critically intervene in—archives and archival modes.

• Art History
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Koss, Juliet
• Time: T 02:45-05:30PM

Beginning with the birth of photography in the 1830s, attending to telegraphy, telephony, radio, and television, and ending with video, this seminar explores the history of the fascination, fear, and peculiar associations that have accompanied new technological developments in Europe and the United States. Prerequisite(s): One previous art history course or permission of the instructor.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Staff
• Time: MW 01:15-03:15PM

A studio art course in digital photography with an emphasis on image production. Students will explore, discuss, and contextualize historical and contemporary uses of photographic media. Student will learn or expand on their skills in Photoshop and Lightroom. Students must have access to a DSL or Lensless camera w/ full manual camera settings. The course will include student presentations, technical assignments, writing assignments, and a final portfolio.

• Intermediate/Advanced Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Macko, Nancy
• Time: TR 03:00-05:30PM

The digital print is considered something of a hybrid in the print and photo world. Crossing platforms between the etching studio and the digital art lab, students will create works that integrate both methodologies. Systems including transfer drawing, monoprinting, silk solar plates, digital transfer, and analog and digital printing will be explored. Pre-requisite: Art 141 SC.

• Elective
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Blassingame, Tia
• Time: MW 10:00AM-12:00PM

Through open and structured assignments, students will learn the basics of experimental and relief printing. In library and artist visits, the class will explore how artists utilize printmaking with original text to entertain, educate, connect, shift consciousness, and build community. Unique and editioned prints will represent the effort and vision of each student.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Macko, Nancy
• Time: TR 10:00AM-12:00PM

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. The curriculum is designed to assist students in approaching their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, to draw upon formal elements in art and conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects, and goals. Also listed as MS 041 SC.

• Intermediate/Advanced Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Charlesworth, Vivian
• Time: TR 01:15-03:45PM

This intermediate level course will explore digital approaches, history, concepts, and techniques with a fine art context. Intermediate digital art will encourage students to develop mobility and fluidity between mediums and techniques, analog and digital. This approach mirrors the way in which digital media exists in practice for many artists-where the relationship between different ideas and approaches shifts and adapts between projects, and production techniques are significantly determined by conception project necessity. Assignments will develop proficiency across a range of programs. This is not intended to be a technical training course. Prerequisite: Either Art 141, Art 148 or MS82.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Staff
• Time: MW 10:00AM-12:00PM

A studio course in black-and-white photography with an emphasis on image production, developing, and printing 35mm film, in a wet darkroom. Instruction in basic camera operation, and darkroom techniques, and considers historical and contemporary uses of the photographic medium. Students should have access to a 35mm camera. Some cameras are available for check out from Scripps AV. Prerequisites: Art 100A, Art 100B, Art 141, Intro to Media Studies.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Charlesworth, Vivian
• Time: TR 04:15-06:45PM

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. The curriculum is designed to assist students in approaching their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, to draw upon formal elements in art and conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects and goals. Also listed as ART 141 SC.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
• Time: TR 02:45-04:15PM

This course explores the potential of code as a medium for media studies and arts practice. Students learn the programming language p5.js with assignments focusing on different methods for creating two-dimensional graphics. p5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and all others. The course centers on the process of reflection and critique, including visits from practicing artists in the field. This course is designed as an introductory production course for media studies majors and minors and for all students who are interested in learning creative coding.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Wing, Carlin
• Time: TR 10:00AM-12:30PM

This course serves as an introduction to the foundations of game design. Talking about games may conjure memories of Sonic and Mario, but gaming long precedes the digital forms we know today. Games are as old as any human art form and exist across every culture; playful behavior even precedes human language. In this course we will explore this question through a formal approach, focusing on game design as a creative and cultural practice with deep history and common principles that can be studied, practiced, and effectively enacted. In this setting, game design does not require mastery of code nor a life-long obsession with games. Rather, like other aesthetic and experiential forms, game design has fundamentals that may apply across media, platforms and contexts.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
• Time: TR 09:35-10:50AM

This is an introduction to computer programming that supports Scripps College’s interdisciplinary vision. It is for everyone–visual designers, data scientists, and fine artists–who wants to create interactive media and computer graphics. This course links software concepts to principles of visual form, motion, and interaction. Students learn the fundamentals of Python programming (data structures, sequencing, selection and sorting, iteration and recursion, functions, object-oriented code) and use Processing.py to analyze and visualize data, generate drawings and sounds, manipulate images, create interactions for games, use network communication to collect data, and learn how to work with remote data to create environmental simulations. Prior programming experience not required. This course satisfies the pre-requisite for DS2 in Scripps’ Data Science minor.

• Media Theory
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Wing, Carlin and Talmor, Ruti
• Time: T 02:45-05:30PM

What happens when the body is the medium is the message? The imbrication of embodiment and mediation is everywhere: from politics to biomedicine, to intimacy and surveillance, to lives lived on smartphones and Zoom. The course is divided into three parts. Part one introduces phenomenological theories of the body. Part two explores bodies in media, including sports, acting, performance art, dance, videogaming, and pornography. Part three turns to bodies as media: as cellular biology; as cultural, genetic, and computational code; and as interwoven with nonhuman beings. Specific topics will include impairment, disability, and illness; trauma; and practices of transcendence and healing. Prerequisite: MS 049, MS 050, or MS 051 or permission of instructor. Course is team-taught.

• Intro. Production
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
• Time: TR 01:15-02:30PM

Intro to Computational Photography. This class will study photographic technology from prehistoric times to 1976. Students will build photographic devices, reproduce chemistry, and make images following techniques ranging from archaeological optics, lensed cameras, all the way to the first digital sensor cameras. Activities include building camera obscuras, pinhole cameras, lensed cameras, and electronic light sensors. Students will use these devices to create projections, photograms, cyanotypes, and electronic images. We will pay special attention to the work required to create durable images and consider a range of ideas about the legibility and meaning of photography.

• Senior Seminar
• Campus: Scripps
• Instructor: Tran, Kim-Trang T.
• Time: TR 01:15-02:30PM

Senior Seminar. Jointly-taught seminar designed for senior majors. Review of key issues/theories in media studies.