PMC 9700 (700) Interdisciplinary Foundations of Media Theory
This seminar approaches theory as an act; part agency, part structure. It prepares participants to theoretically inform and ground research into media industries, cultures and technologies. Seminar participants are introduced to different approaches to and critiques of theorizing along with the media and cultural theories that offer ways of understanding the hows and whys of media as a system of mediations, meanings, practices, and political economies. The works to be studied come from critical theory, new media theories, various traditions of cultural studies, feminist studies, semiotics and post/colonial, structural and modern studies. (Cross-listed with MS 9100)
PMC 9701 (701) Introduction to Popular Music Studies
Provides an overview and history of the field, key texts, issues, debates, and methodologies. (Cross-listed with Music 9535)
PMC 9702 (702) Listening to Popular Music
A study of the core listening regimes, and their constitutive audile techniques, which presently direct popular music studies, and the different objects of study each construes; and a basic introduction to the theory and practice of audio engineering. No previous experience with music technology is assumed or required. (Cross-listed with Music 9542)