DMST 2200: Critical Approaches to Digital Media
This course familiarizes students with current critical approaches to understanding digital media and the impacts these media have in personal, community, cultural, social, institutional and international life. The course pays particular attention to rhetorical constructions of digital media and the ways in which new media are positioned in contemporary commercial culture.
undergraduate only
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
DMST 2901/4901: Computing and Society
This is a special topics course designed to explore the social implications of technical practices. While many examples are drawn from the area of computing practice, organization and social experience, other issues are illustrated with examples from the history of technology, science and philosophy. 4 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
DMST 3000: Telecom and Internet Management
This course examines the business, technical operations, regulatory, economic and user/audience considerations important to managers in the telecommunication and Internet industries. The industries' evolution toward integrated networks will be analyzed in terms of the effect on management responsibilities. The relationship between telecommunications and Internet services and other media will also be explored in light of a changing entertainment and information environment. The future of the telecommunication and Internet industries amid converging technologies is also emphasized.undergraduate/graduate
Prequisites: Permission of Instructor.
DMST 3010: Digital Noesis
This seminar examines the impact of digital media on human cognitive processes. The seminar also considers the progression from primary orality to secondary orality and the residue of orality in digital media. 4 credit hours.undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
DMST 3190: Innovations in Mass Communications
This course examines the historical, current and future relationships between communication technology and social formation. Starting with examinations of preliterate societies and early writing systems, the course traces the development of communication technology and its relationship to social change. The course uses this critical historical understanding to inform assessments and speculations about current and near-future relationships between digital media and society. 4 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
DMST 3200: Telecommunication and Internet Law
This course examines past, current and evolving legal, policy and regulatory issues effecting telecommunications, telecommunications-related industries, and the Internet. Laws and policies effecting multichannel television, wireline and wireless telephone companies, and the Internet will be examined in depth. Focus is placed on the role of public policy in light of a rapidly changing information environment, critical evaluation and understanding of the rationale behind policy and regulatory activity, and the exploration of the various complex problems arising from the evolving information environment and its products. 4 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
DMST 3700: New Media Law and Regulation
This course examines current conflicts in mass communications law. While particular emphasis will be given to the legal problems of br /oadcasting, cable and the new communications technologies, other topics may include libel, privacy, obscenity, newsgathering, copyright, media ownership and advertising regulation. Students in the class will "design" the syllabus to focus on those issues and controversies of particular interest to them. The primary purpose of the course is to give students an understanding of the legal rights and responsibilities of the mass media and those who work in the media. It should also provide insight into how the legal process works and an understanding of the principles and philosophies that underlie the restraints on and privileges of the media. 4 credit hours.
undergraduate/graduate
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
DMST 3900: Special Topic
Various special topics in critical studies offered throughout the year. Recent topics have included Advanced Critical Approaches; Designing Digital Learning; and the Heidegger Seminar.
DMST 4200: Critical Approaches to Digital Media
This course introduces graduate students to the growing body of theoretical discourse defining the field of digital media studies. The class will establish some of the major historical, cultural, sociopolitical, philosophical, and other critical trends shaping this emerging field. We'll conduct discussions both within the traditional classroom setting and in various networked formats. Class assignments will utilize digital writing, publishing, and communication media, including word processing software, HTML, asynchronous discussion formats, and blogs. 4 credit hours.
graduate only
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
DMST 4503: Seminar in Internet Communication
This course involves students in the planning, development and evaluation of Internet-based communication plans, paying particular attention to advanced web site concept development, web-based promotion, and various tools of Internet communication (including email, chat, discussion groups, instant messaging, IP telephony, streaming audio/video and more). 4 credit hours.
