Literature, Media, and Communication FALL 2018

Course Descriptions

LMC 2000 Intro Lit, Media, and Comm Instructor: Santesso (TR 9:30-10:45 Skiles 264) Course restricted: Only LMC majors. 86835

This course will examine methods of literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, applying them to works from the early modern period up to the contemporary era. After a methodological introductory unit, the course will proceed chronologically, with classes revolving around “keywords” as a way of focusing on the unique, cross-disciplinary ways in which humanities research is conducted in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. We will look at works by Shakespeare, Hitchcock, Rushdie, and many others, from numerous cultural and national backgrounds. The goal is to help you leave this course with a solid background in literary and cultural history and analysis, a broad yet focused knowledge of critical and theoretical methodologies, and an understanding of the value and power of humanistic inquiry.

LMC 2000 Intro Lit, Media, and Comm Instructor: Hassan(TR 12:00-1:15 Skiles 154) Course restricted: Only LMC majors 89593

LMC 2100 Intro to STAC Instructor: TBA(TR 3-4:15 Skiles 311) 86619

LMC 2200 Intro to Gender Studies Instructor: Parsons(MW 3:00-4:15 Skiles 317) 88347This course explores concepts in gender and sexuality, particularly those relating to LGBTQIA histories, perspectives, debates, and cultures in the U.S.

LMC 2400 Intro to Media Studies Instructor: Asad (MWF 9:05-9:55 Skiles 170) Course restricted: Only LMC majors 88803

LMC 2500 Intro to Film Instructor: Wang(MW 8-9:15 Skiles 370) Screenings: M 4:30-6:30

Skiles 368 This course aims to introduce you to the informed pleasure of appreciating and thinking about film as a unique, hybrid and evolving modern art. Issues to be lectured, screened and discussed include cinematic time, space, narrative, mise-en-scène, editing, sound, color, genre, film auteur, etc. We will discuss representative works from world cinema (e.g. US, China, UK, France, South Korea, etc.) that accentuate or innovate selective elements of filmmaking.

LMC 2500 Intro to Film Instructor: Telotte (MWF 9:05-9:55 Skiles 368) Screenings T 3-5

Skiles 368

LMC 2661 Theatre Production I Instructor: Foulger(SUN 1:00-5:00pm TBA)

LMC 2662 Theatre Production II Instructor: Foulger(SAT 1:00-5:00pm TBA)

LMC 2700 Intr-Computational Media Instructor: Loukissas(MW 1:55-2:45 Boggs B9) (F 1:55-2:45 Skiles 271) 86624It is not often that human cultures invent new media of representation. The computer is a powerful example that has quickly assimilated older representational forms including spoken language, printed text, drawings, photographs, music and moving images. But the computer is not just an aggregator of old formats; it brings its own representational powers as well as new genres, such as data art, video games, social robots, and interactive storytelling. This course will approach the computer as a medium of expression, connected to the history of media while evolving its own characteristic forms. LMC 2700 is the introductory course for the Computational Media degree and an elective course for LMC students with a Media Studies specialization. Students will read, discuss and write about key developments in the history of computation media. Moreover, they make their own computational artifacts using a variety of programming languages including Java and JavaScript. Basic experience with programming is expected of all participants in the course.

LMC 2720 Prin of Visual Design Instructor: Peer (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 357) 86625Studio-based course that provides students with basic skills needed to create digital visual images and to analyze designs from historical and theoretical perspectives. Students will be given design problems growing out of their reading and present solutions using Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and 3DstudioMax or similar 3D application. Students will also examine visual experience in broad terms, from the perspectives of creators and viewers. The course will address a number of key questions including: Why is the act of drawing considered by numerous disciplines to be a cognitive and perceptual practice? How do images produce significance or meaning? What is the role of technology in creating and understanding images and vision? What is the difference between the intention of the creator and the interpretations of the viewers? How do images function as a "language"?

LMC 2720 Prin of Visual Design Instructor: Bolter (MW 9:30-10:45 Skiles 357) Course restricted: Only CM majors in Phase 1

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Studio-based course that provides students with basic skills needed to create digital visual images and to analyze designs from historical and theoretical perspectives. Students will be given design problems growing out of their reading and present solutions using Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and 3DstudioMax or similar 3D application. Students will also examine visual experience in broad terms, from the perspectives of creators and viewers. The course will address a number of key questions including: Why is the act of drawing considered by numerous disciplines to be a cognitive and perceptual practice? How do images produce significance or meaning? What is the role of technology in creating and understanding images and vision? What is the difference between the intention of the creator and the interpretations of the viewers? How do images function as

a "language"?

LMC 2730 Construct-Moving Image Instructor: Fisher MWF 12:20-1:10 Skiles 357) Course restricted: Only CM majors. 86627

LMC 2813/2410 30881 Special Topics in STAC Instructor: Wilson

(MWF 11:15-12:05 Skiles 357) Intro to Games Design

LMC 3102 The Classical Tradition Instructor: Wood (TR 12:00-1:15 Skiles 156)

We will examine the Classic Scientific and Cultural Tradition from Greek philosophy to the Middle Ages. Readings will contextualize this tradition, examining, for example, interactions with theological traditions.

LMC 3108 Sci Tech and Enlightenment Instructor: Santesso (TR 1:30-2:45 Skiles 311) 89578

Science, Technology, and the Enlightenment (Technologies of Enlightenment Communication)

This course looks at the transformation of various modes of cultural communication during the Enlightenment, focusing on six different material technologies: paper, engraving, medals, signs, puppets, and needlework. It serves as an introduction to eighteenth-century British and American literature, art, music, architecture, and culture; it also introduces students to the “material turn” in media and literary studies. The course includes field trips to various Atlanta cultural institutions and culminates with students presenting their own, self-made example of one of the communicative objects we have studied.

LMC 3110 Sci Tech and Romanticism Instructor: Leland (MWF 12:20-1:15 Skiles 314)

 Course Description: After introducing the notion of Modernity, this class offers a rapid survey of cultural and techno/scientific activity (mostly British) from the 18th century to the mid-19th century.  This is the period of the Enlightenment or Age of Reason, and of the Romantic movement which was an aesthetic/philosophical reaction to the Age of Reason.  We will spend much of the course reading poetry by some major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats – while exploring the economic, political, and aesthetic context of that canonical literary work.  Learning Outcomes: Students will have a sense of the material and economic foundations of the world-view of the rationalist Enlightenment, and of the complex dialectical (resistant/complicit) response to that worldview known as Romanticism.

LMC 3112 Evolution & Industrial Age Instructor: Senf

(TR 12-1:15 Skiles 246)

This class focuses on the rise of industrialism and colonialism in the nineteenth century and connects later nineteenth-century scientific and technological concepts and discoveries, particularly theories of evolution, to the fiction and poetry of the long nineteenth century. Students will read from the works of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries and analyze the representation of science and technology in short stories, novels, poetry, and scientific prose. Discussion will focus especially on how science and social values overlap, particularly in narrative representations of ethnicity, gender, and class.

LMC 3202 Studies in Fiction Instructor: Farooq (TR 9:30-10:45 Skiles 317)

Studies in Fiction: Social Justice and the Graphic Novel

LMC 3204 Poetry and Poetics Instructor: TBA (TR 3:00-4:15 Skiles 343)

LMC 3206 Communication & Culture Instructor: J.Wilson (TR 3-4:15 Skiles 314) Course restricted: Only CM LMC majors.

Using Film and Documentary to Explore the History of Hip Hop Culture

LMC 3206 Communication & Culture Instructor: Madej (MW 9:30-10:45 Skiles 354) Course restricted: Only CM LMC majors.

Social Media

LMC 3208 African-Amer Lit/Cult Instructor: Morris (TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 314)

Contemporary Black Women Writers

This course focuses on the canon of contemporary Black literature by exploring how Black women write about what it means to be Black and a woman in the twenty-first century, particularly in the era of #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName. We will examine contemporary Black literary and cultural movements through an exploration of fiction, film, drama, poetry, and nonfiction, while paying close attention to the various historical and social contexts the works influence and emerge from. Expect to read such authors as Nicole Dennis Benn, Brittney Cooper, Tayari Jones, Janet Mock, and Natasha Tretheway, among others.

LMC 3210 Ethnicity American Cult Instructor: Farooq (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 317)

LMC 3214 Science Fiction Instructor: Yaszek (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 246)

LMC 3226 Major Authors Instructor: Leland (MWF 1:55-2:45 Skiles 317) Major Author: Major American PoetsCourse Description: Modern Poetry in English is for the most part poetry rooted in the British Romantic lyric of the late 18th/early19th century. Although we will not study that movement in any detail, we will explore its legacy in late 19th and 20th century American poetry. The class will focus more on close reading and analysis of specific poems than on the generalities of literary history, although that history will not be ignored. Learning Outcomes: By course’s end students will have acquired significant practice in reading and interpreting modern lyric poetry, employing an approach that links interpretation very closely to forms and patterns found in the text of the poem itself. Students will learn that poetry is not a mysterious form of expression, but is rather a form that directly rewards alert attention to its careful, complex use of language.

LMC 3228 Shakespeare Instructor: Wood (TR 1:30-2:45 Skiles 317) With a firm foundation in the written text, we will also explore performance text as interpretation, and both traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches to the plays.

LMC 3234 Creative Writing Instructor: Head (MW 3:00-4:15 Skiles 343 )Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course.

LMC 3234 Creative Writing-Screenwriting Instructor: Reilly (MW 9:30-10:45am Skiles 343) Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course.Contact jc.reilly@lmc.gatech.edu w/gtid for permit

This semester's creative writing class will focus on screenwriting, and students will write scripts for several 3-5 minute short films, which will then be "optioned" to be filmed in LMC 3406 Video Production in a subsequent semester. We'll do writing exercises geared to developing character, plot, conflict, genre, story, etc., as well as learning to use script writing software, reading some scripts for inspiration, "recreating" film scripts based on what we see on screen, adapting stories for the screen, sharing scripts for peer review, critiquing current films, and possibly watching film clips as appropriate.

LMC 3253 Animation Instructor: Telotte

(MWF 11:15-12:05 Skiles 343)

LMC 3258 Documentary Film Instructor: Wilson (TR 3-4:15 Skiles 314) Using Film and Documentary to Explore the History of Hip Hop Culture

LMC 3259 Experimental Film Instructor: Zinman (TR 12-1:15 Skiles 368) Course restricted: Only CM FMS LMC majors

Screenings: T 3-5 Skiles 371

This course provides an overview of experimental moving images from the European "city symphonies" and abstract films of the 1920s to the flowering of the American postwar avant-garde; from the advent of video art in the 1960s to the online viral videos and digital gallery installations of today. The class thus surveys the artists, institutions, and viewers that have fostered moving image art throughout the history of film, and asks students to consider the historical, social, and institutional forces that have engendered oppositional, political, and aesthetically radical cinemas. A central premise of the course is that technological developments such as video and new media are not historical ruptures, but rather, part of an ongoing tradition of moving-image art making. Other core topics will include the consideration of the meaning and use-value of the avant-garde, the issue of “artists’ film and video” as opposed to “experimental film,” and the thorny relationship between avant-garde and commercial filmmaking. 

LMC 3262 Performance Studies: Rock History Instructor: Auslander (MWF 1:55-2:45pm Skiles 368)

Performance Studies: Seminar: Music and Performance Studies: Rock Music to the 1970sWe will look at the first half of the development of rock music from roughly 1945-1977 from historical, social, musical, and performance perspectives. Areas of focus will include: The evolution of the rock band from earlier configurations of musicians beginning with swing and post-war dance bands; The evolution of rock instrumentation from saxophone dominated R&B to guitar dominated rock; The evolution of the vocal harmony group from gospel through doo wop and girl groups to the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas; The waxing and waning of spectacle and theatricality in the performance of rock music; The changing social identities and roles of musicians and audiences; The role of media, including sound recordings, film, radio, jukeboxes, and television, in the evolution and dissemination of rock music; Specific musical genres, including jump blues, blues, rockabilly, surf, rock n roll, rock, folk-rock, psychedelic rock and hard rock. Overall, the course will be structured as a traditional diachronic narrative within which we will examine each decade synchronically. Many topics include case studies in which we will focus in greater detail on a particular issue or artist, particularly artists whose careers reflect transitional moments in the history of the music. Because this course is offered under the rubric of Performance Studies, it will emphasize the visual and performance aspects of rock and related genres at all historical moments, as well as the music itself and the circumstances of its performance.

LMC 3302 Sci Tech and Ideology Instructor: Senf(TR 1:30-2:45pm Skiles 371)Spanish artist Francisco Goya famously (in 1799) titled one of his etchings “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” and the image depicts a sleeping artist surrounded by creatures associated in Spanish folk tradition with mystery and evil. The title, is often read as a proclamation of Goya’s adherence to the values of the Enlightenment—without Reason, evil and corruption prevail.

 This class examines how prevailing ideologies in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries result in the creation of various literary and/or artistic monsters: the vampire, the werewolf, and mummy, and the creature. Students will read Frankenstein, Carmilla, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Jewel of Seven Stars as well as various theoretical works that examine feminist ideology, Marxist ideology, and post-colonial ideology. Students will then explore the GT Archives to see how these 19th-century monsters are re-imagined in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will demonstrate their proficiency in both written and oral forms, including essay exams, presentations to the class, and wikis.

LMC 3304 Science Tech and Gender Instructor: Colatrella(TR 9:30-10:45 Fourth Street Houses Stein Study Lounge)Students in this course will analyze scientific, literary, and historical representations of women as medical caregivers, patients, scientific researchers, and technologists and consider political and ethical issues related to gender and theories and practices of science and engineering. In analyzing how cultural myths of gender influence the development and reception of art, science, and technology, we will consider how social inequalities affect representations of science and technology and their deployment. Case studies will include examples from the history of science and medicine, domestic architecture and technologies, and reproductive technologies. Satisfies Humanities and Ethics Requirements.

LMC 3308 Environment Ecocritic Instructor: Crawford (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 170)Hefner Dormitory HEF Honors!

Limited to Honors Program students, Environmentalism and Ecocriticism—The Cultural History of Trees, A Hands-on Learning Project

Wood has been the most important material in the history of human technological practices, yet today it seems to have been reduced to crooked 2x4s sold at the local home center. This seminar will examine trees and lumber as they function in human technological practices and in our culture. We will study how trees figure in current debates about the environment, including tree structure and forest composition, trees and the law, and arguments about plant intelligence. Not content with just reading about trees, we will also do some woodworking. On consultation with the operators of the Georgia Tech Day Care center in Home Park, the class, will design, fabricate, and install structure(s) for the children’s playground made from the wood of an old pecan tree recently taken down at the center. The design process will include hand drawing and modeling as well as CADing, some 3d printing, and perhaps some CNC fabrication in addition to using traditional tools (hand saws, planes, draw knives, broad axes, chisels). Some texts will include works by Joan Maloof, Eduardo Kohn, and the newly published novel The Canopy by Richard Powers.

LMC 3314 Tech of Representation Instructor: Nitsche (TR 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 357) Course restricted: Only CM LMC majors.

“A puppet is a thought in your hand.” (Robert Moore) How can our thoughts and expressions materialize in another media form? To answer this, we turn to puppets as media objects. Puppets might be the ultimate threshold object: they connect our own life to mystical storyworlds through foam, felt, wood, textiles, and bits. They operate along a fine line between “alive” and “dead,” “object” and “subject.” We will combine elements of performance with making and crafting to investigate puppets from multiple perspectives. And we will discuss and analyze them in past and present media formats from classic shadow theater to today’s video game. This class will combine practice and theory. We

will discuss different puppet traditions touching on readings from Performance Studies, Media Studies, and Critical Craft/ Making. In parallel, we create own prototypes as critical responses to our discussions. Students should expect to discuss readings, design and develop own prototypes, and be able to critically review their work throughout in class discussions. The course should be interesting for students interested in physical media and experimental media design.

LMC 3318 Biomedicine and Culture Instructor: Crawford (TR 9:30-10:45 Skiles 371)

This course discusses the history of medicine and medical technologies; literary and popular representations of health, disease, and the medical establishment; ethical issues related medicine and public health; and the cultural conditions affecting the development of medicine and medical technologies. Subjects include the Tuskegee syphilis study and the establishment of bioethics, the race among researchers to discover the HIV virus causing AIDS, sustainability and public health and patients’ rights and genetic technology. Attributes: Humanities, Ethics

LMC 3402 Graphic & Visual Design Instructor: Leibert (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 346) Course restricted: Only LMC majors.

LMC 3403 BA1 Tech Communication Instructor: Aldinger

LMC 3403 BA1 12:00pm-1:15pm TR Skiles 370

LMC 3403 BA2 1:30pm-2:45pm TR Skiles 302

LMC 3403 BA3 4:30pm-5:45pm TR Skiles 302

LMC 3403: Business Communication.

This technical communication course is designed to introduce students in the Scheller College of Business to the kinds of communications and documents they will experience in the work place. It is an exciting time to study business communication. While in the past, business or professional writing courses focused on teaching students rules, genres, and the do(s) and don’t(s) for creating documents, our focus will be more on creativity, rhetorical theory, and design. As much as this is a course on business communication, this is also and as much a course in design theory. We will read broadly from a variety of disciplines such as: rhetoric, anthropology, philosophy, and marketing. Our goal will be to analyze real-world written, oral, visual, electronic, and non-verbal forms of communication so that we may become designers who create audience/user centered artifacts that are rhetorically sound and engaging.

This is a project based course. Therefore, the course is divided by the major projects which include: a project on infographics, video ethnographies, forecast reports, lookbooks, maps, and a website. Every project will challenge you to reflect on the rhetorical choices you make during the process of designing your documents. In addition, each project will contribute to the culminating portfolio (i.e. your personal website) that you will design to showcase the work you did this semester. This course is affiliated with GA Tech’s Serve-Learn-Sustain Center; therefore, some of our units student will produce deliverables for Atlanta based non-profit clients.

LMC 3403 BA4 Tech Communication Instructor: Rogers

LMC 3403 BA4 9:30am-10:45am TR Skiles 302

LMC 3403 BA5 12:00pm-1:15pm TR Skiles 302

LMC 3403 BA6 1:30pm-2:45pm TR Skiles 370

LMC 3403: Business Communication.LMC 3403 is a professional communication course designed specifically for students in the Scheller College of Business. As such, this course is structured to provide students with a unique classroom experience which models rhetorical situations one can expect to encounter in the business world. Throughout the semester, our chief goal will be to assess each audience and rhetorical situation effectively, so that we might apply rhetorically sound principles of communication and design to each.

LMC 3403 26983 Tech Communication Instructor: Herrington (TR 0130-0245pm Skiles 246) Course restricted: No CS majors.

LMC 3403 provides information regarding the principles and concepts of technical communication and creates opportunities for students to practice technical communication skills in developing proposals, analytical reports, and related oral presentations. Students will work in experiential settings to develop materials, gather responses, and engage in critical analyses while pursuing analytical projects.

Beginning with the premise that technical communication exists only within contextual situations, and both uses and creates information designed for specific purposes in specific communities (those already existing within organizations as well as those created for a unique purpose), this course asks students to explore both primary and secondary research venues to analyze situations and audiences in their own disciplines to create documents and oral presentations which communicate through effective structure, prose, and visual presentation.

Students will learn to analyze and produce functional documents that reflect the results of critical analyses and other pertinent experience. The assignments will include an annotated bibliography, a well-developed analytical report, a proposal, and an oral presentation. The course will cover foundational use of technical communication's theoretical principles and concepts, treating analyses of epistemological grounding for rhetorical purposes—both analytical and productive—visual rhetoric/document design, ethics, intellectual property, usability testing, and audience issues. The required course products are all functional in nature and replicable for different purposes once students leave Georgia Tech.

LMC 3403 27913 Tech Communication Instructor: Greene (TR 8:00-9:15am Skiles 317) Course restricted: No CS majors.

LMC 3403 27913 Tech Communication Instructor: Greene (TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 308) Course restricted: No CS majors.

LMC 3403 27913 Tech Communication Instructor: TBA (MWF 10:10-11 Skiles 368)

LMC 3406 Video Production Instructor: Thornton (MW 3-4:15 Skiles 355)

This course is a hands-on introduction to film and video production. Through theoretical and practical application of the production process, you will learn techniques for producing a short film, while developing an expressive use of the filmmaking medium. Throughout the course, students will have several opportunities to collaborate and critically explore the entire production process, to gain understanding of the artistic roles of the key members of a film production crew.

LMC 3408 Rhetoric-Tech Narratives Instructor: TBA MWF 1:55-2:45 Skiles 371

LMC 3410 Non-Linear Documents Instructor: Burnett TR 09:30-10:45am Hall 106 Stephen C Hall

LMC 3412 Communicating Sci/Tech Instructor: Lieberman MW 3-4:15 106 Skiles 354

Sci/Tech Journalism

LMC 3414 Intellectual Property Instructor: Herrington (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 271)

Students will examine constitutionally informed policy and pragmatic legal issues in intellectual property law, focusing on the effects of power structures and information digitization. Students will master foundational understanding of intellectual property law as it affects/will affect them in their development of creative work. The course primarily provides an overview of the constitutional policy and law that drives copyright as a general structure. But it also covers statutory areas of the law that make up intellectual property, such as the protections for intellectual property: trademark, reputation and goodwill, trade secret, patent, and copyright. The range of discussion in each of these areas is determined by student interests and by their contributions, which complement regular course material.

LMC 3431: Tech Comm Approaches.This course is part 2 of a two-semester Junior Design capstone course that includes a computer science and technical communication component. In part one of the course, you selected a project, interacted with the client, developed the project requirements, and prototyped the application. Additionally, you practiced and honed your abilities to analyze the technical needs of your project by researching the feasibility of several approaches and proposed the one with which you felt was most optimal.

This semester, as you work toward building and delivering your project's main deliverables, you will continue revising and refining the project's goals, uses, and results through technical documentation. The course is organized by five three-week sprints. Three of these sprints are coding intensive, during which teams are expected to accomplish demonstrable progress in coding and implementing their product/system. The semester’s major technical document is a Detailed Design explaining the architectural and information components of the team’s product/system. Students will also be asked to

participate in a team Retrospective three times during the semester. These Retrospectives are valuable processes through which a team works through an understanding of their work processes and identifies areas for improvement in subsequent sprints. Project Management is an important component of the course. Teams will be asked to carefully plan, document, and manage their workflow and collaboration in order to provide a quality project on time at the end of the semester. Throughout the semester, you will be tracking and managing your work through weekly meeting minutes and Zenhub. A final presentation/demo and reflection will round out the deliverables for the course.

Course Prerequisites: LMC 1102

Sections: JIA 10:10am-11:00am F Coll of Computing 101 Sarah Lozier, PhDJIB 11:15am-12:05pm F Coll of Computing 101 Sarah Lozier, PhDJIC 12:20pm-1:10pm F Coll of Computing 101 Sarah Lozier, hDJID 1:55pm-2:45pm F Coll of Computing 101 Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick, PhDJIE 3:00pm-3:50pm F Coll of Computing 101 Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick, PhDJIF 4:30pm-5:20pm F Coll of Computing 101 Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick, PhD

LMC 3432: Tech Comm StrategiesThis course is part 1 of a two-semester Junior Design capstone course that includes a computer science and technical communication component. This semester teams will develop a software solution to a problem defined either by a client or the team. The semester culminates in the development of a prototype and its demonstration in a formal presentation. Supporting deliverables that teams create include a project vision statement, user stories, and a usability/design support document. The series of deliverables students create will integrate written, oral, visual, electronic and nonverbal (WOVEN) rhetorical skills for various audiences, purposes, and contexts applicable to students’ professional experiences in the workplace.Course Prerequisites: LMC 1102

Sections: JDA 10:10am-11:00am WF Skiles 202 Halcyon Lawrence, PhDJDB 11:15am-12:05pm WF Skiles 202 Halcyon Lawrence, PhDJDC 12:20pm-1:10pm WF Skiles 202 Amanda Girard, PhDJDD 1:55pm-2:45pm WF Skiles 202 Amanda Girard, PhDJDE 3:00pm-3:50pm WF Skiles 202 Russell Kirkscey, PhDJDF 4:30pm-5:20pm WF Skiles 202 Russell Kirkscey, PhD

LMC 3518 Lit/Cult Postmoderism Instructor: Frazee TR 12-1:15 Skiles 270

In surveying the major themes, representational techniques, and social and cultural concerns of postmodern art and literature, this course will pay special attention to the ways that science, technology, and media have contextualized and influenced the fiction, poetry, nonfiction, electronic literature, and theory of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. In studying postmodern literature, we will necessarily begin with understanding the basics of modernist literature and theory and how postmodernism responds to the modernist precedent. From there we will trace a roughly chronological path through the past 60 or so years of literary and cultural history, exploring such important topics as the influence of the nuclear age on postwar literature; the rise of "theory" writ large and its effect on

literary production; and the ways that computers and the Internet have suggested new possibilities and new challenges for human thought and literary production. Authors we will read include the likes of Juan Luis Borges, Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kingston, Salmon Rushdie, and John Ashbery; we will also conisder thinkers such as Marshall McLuhan, Donna Haraway, and Jean Baudrillard.

LMC 3661 Theatre Production III Instructor: Foulger (TBA) Course meets in DramaTech theater.

LMC 3662 26968 Theatre Production IV Instructor: Foulger (TBA) Course meets in DramaTech Theatre

LMC 3705 26970 Prin Information Design Instructor: Jafarinaimi TR 3-4:15 Skiles 370Course restricted: Only CM majors

LMC 3710 Prin Interaction Design Instructor: LeDantec (MW 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 302) Course restricted: Only CM majors.

LMC 4100 N L 29884 Seminar in STAC Instructor: Yaszek (TR 12:00-1:15pm Skiles 354) Course restricted: Permit required to schedule this course.

STaC Seminar: Surveillance and Culture

LMC 4200 Seminar Lit/Cult Theory Instructor: Utz TR 9:30-10:45am Skiles 343Global MedievalismIn this seminar, we want to explore the world-wide existence of medievalism, a cultural phenomenon that encompasses all creative and critical receptions, reimaginations, and reenactments of medieval culture in postmedieval times. Specifically, we want to investigate the causes for the continued fascination with medieval culture, from European colonialism and ‘Western’ economic, military, and cultural influence through the various transformations and adaptation of ‘real’ and ‘invented’ medieval ideas, tropes, and memes in countries, regions, and cultures in which there never was a ‘middle age’. This is a cultural studies class, and so it unites research and scholarship on art, social class, culture, film, literature, media, music, politics, race, and technology to help us discuss how cultural practices and ideas about the ‘medieval’ travel through time and space. Our goal is to answer complex questions at the intersection of various disciplines, theories, and cultural and linguistic traditions. Our travels will be local-to-global, beginning in Atlanta, and then on from ‘palm to pine’. Among the topics we might discuss are: why Unite the Right demonstrators in Charlottesville, NC, wielded medievalist shields and symbols; why Putin’s Russia celebrates its medieval heritage; and why the reception of Ridley Scott’s movie, Kingdom of Heaven, is different in the Middle East than in Britain.

 The class will provide a unique opportunity for original research and the public presentation of that research during the annual meeting of the Georgia Medievalist Group, on Saturday, November 3, here at Georgia Tech. The class will also involve a large number of guest specialists from different areas of expertise who will join us (in person or virtually) in our search for answers about diverse global medievalisms. Undergraduate students will be required to do at least one presentation, and produce an expertly edited research paper (or equivalent work) of 15 pages; graduate students will be required to do additional readings in cultural studies, do at least one presentation, and produce a publishable paper of 21 pages.

 If you are interested, here is some information on the topics we might touch: Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz, eds., Medievalism: Key Critical Terms (online access - GT library); David Matthews, Medievalism. A Critical History (online access - GT Library); and Medievally Speaking (online journal). Another resource (not yet available at the GT Library) is the Cambridge Companion to Medievalism, ed. Louise D’Arcens. A reference section with multiple resources from our library holdings will be provided for this class. For more information, please contact Richard.Utz@lmc.gatech.edu.

LMC 4202 N L Poetry and Poetics II Instructor: Ilya Kaminski

(F 3:00-5:45pm Skiles 343) Course restricted: Prereq LMC 3204 or 3234Advanced Poetry Class

LMC 4500 Seminar in Film Studies Instructor: Thornton TBA

LMC 4600 Seminar Perform Studies Instructor: Auslander (MWF 1:55-2:45 Skiles 368)

Seminar: Music and Performance Studies: Rock Music to the 1970sWe will look at the first half of the development of rock music from roughly 1945-1977 from historical, social, musical, and performance perspectives. Areas of focus will include: The evolution of the rock band from earlier configurations of musicians beginning with swing and post-war dance bands; The evolution of rock instrumentation from saxophone dominated R&B to guitar dominated rock; The evolution of the vocal harmony group from gospel through doo wop and girl groups to the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas; The waxing and waning of spectacle and theatricality in the performance of rock music; The changing social identities and roles of musicians and audiences; . The role of media, including sound recordings, film, radio, jukeboxes, and television, in the evolution and dissemination of rock music; Specific musical genres, including jump blues, blues, rockabilly, surf, rock n roll, rock, folk-rock, psychedelic rock and hard rock. In many cases, we will focus in greater detail on a particular issue or artist, particularly artists whose careers reflect transitional moments in the history of the music. Because this course is offered under the rubric of Performance Studies, it will emphasize the visual and performance aspects of rock and related genres at all historical moments, as well as the music itself and the circumstances of its performance. This course will be conducted as much as possible as a seminar, meaning that a high level of student participation in discussion is expected. Assignments include multiple seminar presentations and a final project/presentation on a

topic in the history of rock music and its performance. Students taking the course under this number as a senior seminar will have additional assignments.

LMC 4602 N L 27221 Performance Practicum Instructor: Foulger TR 1200-0115pm TBACourse restricted: Permit required to schedule this course.Contact melissa.foulger@lmc.gatech.edu w/gtid for permit.Course meets in DramaTech Theater.

Based on the Ferst Center’s “I Feel Safe When” initiative, students will work with embedded artists in the areas of storytelling, Viewpoints (Overlie/Bogart/Landau), Rasaboxes (Schechner) , and Theatre of the Oppressed (Boal). After work in the core tenets of each practice, students will work together to create a devised theatre piece that deals with their personal stories related to safety on Georgia Tech’s campus in one of the following areas: • Safety • People/Others • Emotional • Physical • Material • Political/Ethical • Academic Preparedness • Spiritual Group/media driven pieces will be created around the concepts of People/Others, Community, Place, Self, and Escape. Those will all areas of interest are encouraged to participate. We will be looking for technicians and designers who are fully embedded into the process to help build the world of the play (possibly in multiple locations). The show will then rehearse in January for a February presentation to the Georgia Tech community as part of DramaTech's season.

LMC 4720 Interactive Narrative Instructor: Murray(TR 1:30 Skiles 02)

The larger objective of this course is to contribute to the expansion of human expressive powers by creating and critiquing artifacts that exploit the affordances of the emerging digital medium for the purposes of the ancient human practice of storytelling.

LMC 4725 Game Design Instructor: Bogost (TR 9:30 Skiles 357)

LMC 4730 Experimental Digital Art Instructor: J. Wilson (MW 3:00-4:15pm Skiles 308)

LMC 4813 Special Topics: Wearable Technology Instructor: Zeagler (TR 4:30-5:45pm Skiles 357)