Media Studies

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Creating Video Games
Philip B. Tan
CMS.611J / 6.073 Creating Video Games is a class that introduces students to the complexities of working in small,...
Media Studies Game Design Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Modern Art and Mass Culture
Prof. Caroline Jones
This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way...
Visual Arts Media Studies History
intermediate
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free
Digital Humanities
Dr. Kurt Fendt
This course examines the theory and practice of using computational methods in the emerging field of digital...
Media Studies Computer Science Humanities
intermediate
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free
Game Design
Philip B. Tan
This course provides practical instruction in the design and analysis of non-digital games. Students cover the...
Media Studies Game Design Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
Computational Camera and Photography
Prof. Ramesh Raskar
A computational camera attempts to digitally capture the essence of visual information by exploiting the synergistic...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Visualization
advanced
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free
Software Engineering for Web Applications
Prof. Harold Abelson
6.171 is a course for students who already have some programming and software engineering experience. The goal...
Electrical Engineering Media Studies Computer Science
intermediate
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Introduction to Game Design Methods
Mikael Jakobsson
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of the process of designing games and playful experiences....
Media Studies Game Design Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
Music and Technology: Recording Techniques and Audio Production
Dr. Florian Hollerweger
This course is an introduction to music recording and audio production from both a practical and a theoretical...
Art, Design & Architecture Electrical Engineering Media Studies
intermediate
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free
Digital Anthropology
Prof. Alex Pentland
Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar, surveying the blossoming arena...
Anthropology Media Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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Learn to Build Your Own Videogame with the Unity Game Engine and Microsoft Kinect
Kyle Keane
This is a 9-day hands-on workshop about designing, building, and publishing simple educational videogames. No...
Media Studies Game Design Computer Science
intermediate
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History of Media and Technology
Prof. Beth Coleman
History of Media and Technology addresses the mutually influential histories of communications media and...
History Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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NextLab I: Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users
Mr. Jhonatan Rotberg
Can you make a cellphone change the world? NextLab is a hands-on year-long design course in which students research,...
Electrical Engineering Sociology Media Studies
intermediate
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Introduction to Media Studies
Dr. Andrea Walsh
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia...
Media Studies Literature Anthropology
intermediate
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Introduction to Videogame Studies
Clara Fernandez-Vara
This course offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of videogames as texts through an examination of...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Game Design
intermediate
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Composing with Computers I (Electronic Music Composition)
Peter Whincop
This class explores sound and what can be done with it. Sources are recorded from students’ surroundings - sampled...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Music
intermediate
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free
Ambient Intelligence
Prof. Patricia Maes
This course will provide an overview of a new vision for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in which people are...
Media Studies Computer Science Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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free
Networks, Complexity and Its Applications
Prof. Cesar Hidalgo
Networks are a ubiquitous way to represent complex systems, including those in the social and economic sciences. The...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Media Studies
advanced
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Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes
Prof. Joshua Glick
Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes aims to equip students with the critical skills to better understand the past...
Media Studies Computer Science Art, Design & Architecture
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Science Writing and New Media: Science Writing for the Public
Karen Boiko
This class is an introduction to writing about science—including nature, medicine and technology—for general...
Media Studies Communication Literature
intermediate
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Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography
Dr. Andrea Walsh
The reading and writing in this course will focus on the art of self-narrative or autobiographical writing. Such...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies
intermediate
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free
German IV
Ellen Crocker
This course focuses on development of interpretive skills, using literary texts (B. Brecht, S. Zweig) and...
Media Studies Language Literature
intermediate
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free
Studies in Film
Prof. Alvin Kibel
This course investigates relationships between two media, film and literature, studying works linked across the two...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
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Visualization for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education
Violeta Ivanova
This course is an introduction to principles and techniques of visual communication, and provides opportunities for...
Visual Arts Media Studies Communication
intermediate
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free
Introduction to Photography and Related Media
Reilly Rabitaille
This course provides practical instruction in the fundamentals of analog and digital SLR and medium/large format...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
Special Topics: New Textiles
Prof. Leah Buechley
This project-based course will explore the future of textiles, focusing particularly on blending rich crafting...
Visual Arts Media Studies Materials Science and Engineering
advanced
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free
Holographic Imaging
Prof. Michael Halle
MAS.450 is a laboratory course about holography and holographic imaging. This course teaches holography from a...
Art, Design & Architecture Physics Media Studies
intermediate
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Interrogative Design Workshop
Prof. Krzysztof Wodiczko
“Parrhesia” was an Athenian right to frank and open speaking, the right that, like the First Amendment, demands a...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art History
advanced
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free
Data Storytelling Studio: Climate Change
Rahul Bhargava
This course explores visualization methodologies to conceive and represent systems and data, e.g., financial, media,...
Game Design Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
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free
Introduction to Video
Prof. Joe Gibbons
This class serves as an introduction to video recording and editing, presenting video as a tool of personal...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
Special Problems in Architectural Design
Prof. Alexandros Tsamis
This class focuses on representation tools used by architects during the design process and attempts to discuss the...
Media Studies Architecture Computer Science
advanced
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free
Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling
Prof. Glorianna Davenport
This seminar explores approaches to representation for distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
advanced
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free
Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications
Prof. Henry Lieberman
This course will explore the state of the art in common sense knowledge, and class projects will design and build...
User Experience Engineering Media Studies
advanced
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free
Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
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free
Photography and Related Media
Prof. Reiner Leist
Subject combines practical instruction, readings, lectures, field trips, visiting artists, group discussions, and...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
advanced
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free
Design Across Scales, Disciplines and Problem Contexts
Prof. Meejin Yoon
This course explores the reciprocal relationships among design, science, and technology by covering a wide range of...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
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free
Islam/Media
Dr. Peter McMurray
This course is an introduction to Islam from the perspective of media and sound studies, intended for advanced...
Visual Arts Media Studies Sociology
intermediate
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free
Music and Technology: Algorithmic and Generative Music
Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course examines the history, techniques, and aesthetics of mechanical and computer-aided approaches to...
Media Studies Mathematics Music
intermediate
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free
Unmanageability: Pathless Realities and Approaches
Gabriel Kahan
Over the last 40 years, new managerial technologies in Western democratic societies have emerged to dominate our...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies
advanced
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free
Media and Methods: Sound
Prof. John Picker
This course explores the ways in which humans experience the realm of sound and how perceptions and technologies of...
Media Studies Music Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
Fundamentals of Computational Media Design
Prof. Barry Vercoe
This class covers the history of 20th century art and design from the perspective of the technologist. Methods for...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Media Studies
intermediate
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Major Media Texts
Prof. Diana Henderson
This class does intensive close study and analysis of historically significant media “texts” that have been...
Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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free
Principles and Practice of Science Communication
Prof. John Durant
This course helps in developing skills as science communicators through projects and analysis of theoretical...
Media Studies Communication Social Sciences
intermediate
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High-Intermediate Academic Communication
Isaiah WonHo Yoo
The goal of this course is to review grammar and develop vocabulary building strategies to refine oral and written...
Media Studies Communication Literature
advanced
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free
Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
We will explore images that pertain to the emergence of Japan as a modern state. We will focus on images that depict...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
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free
Media and Methods: Seeing and Expression
Prof. D. Fox Harrell
In this course students create digital visual images and analyze designs from historical and theoretical...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Signals, Systems and Information for Media Technology
Prof. Rosalind W. Picard
This class teaches the fundamentals of signals and information theory with emphasis on modeling audio/visual...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Electrical Engineering
intermediate
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free
New Century Cities: Real Estate, Digital Technology, and Design
Prof. David Geltner
The course draws on faculty members from the Center for Real Estate, the City Design and Development Group...
Environmental Design Urban Studies Real Estate
advanced
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free
Gender and Japanese Popular Culture
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines relationships between identity and participation in Japanese popular culture as a way of...
Media Studies Anthropology Sociology
intermediate
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free
Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture
Arundhati Banerjee
This subject aims to provide an overview of contemporary texts in regional languages in South Asian Literature and...
Media Studies Anthropology Literature
intermediate
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free
Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time
Prof. Noel Jackson
The “small wonders” to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Shakespeare, Film and Media
Prof. Peter S. Donaldson
Filmed Shakespeare began in 1899, with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree performing the death scene from King John for the...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Germany Today: Intensive Study of German Language and Culture
Ellen Crocker
Prepares students for working and living in German-speaking countries. Focus on current political, social, and...
Sociology Media Studies Anthropology
intermediate
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free
Seminar on Deep Engagement
Prof. Cynthia Breazeal
Innovation in expression, as realized in media, tangible objects, performance and more,  generates new...
Media Studies Communication Psychology
advanced
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free
Digital Typography
Prof. John Maeda
This class introduces studies in the algorithmic manipulation of type as word, symbol, and form. Problems covered...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Music and Technology (Contemporary History and Aesthetics)
Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course is an investigation into the history and aesthetics of music and technology as deployed in experimental...
Media Studies Music Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Social Visualization
Prof. Judith Donath
Millions of people are on-line today and the number is rapidly growing - yet this virtual crowd is often invisible....
Media Studies Anthropology Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative
Prof. Joe Gibbons
This advanced video class serves goes into greater depth on the topics covered in 4.351 Introduction to...
Visual Arts Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Media in Cultural Context: Popular Readerships
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
What is the history of popular reading in the Western world? How does widespread access to print relate to...
History Media Studies Literature
intermediate
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free
Philosophy In Film and Other Media
Prof. Irving Singer
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in...
Visual Arts Media Studies Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Cyberpolitics in International Relations: Theory, Methods, Policy
Prof. Nazli Choucri
This course focuses on cyberspace and its implications for private and public, sub-national, national, and...
Policy and Administration Media Studies Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Popular Culture and Narrative: Serial Storytelling
Prof. James Buzard
Serial Storytelling examines the ways the passing and unfolding of time structures narratives in a range of media....
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Art History
intermediate
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free
Music Since 1960
Prof. Brian Robison
This course begins with the premise that the 1960s mark a great dividing point in the history of 20th century...
Media Studies Music Humanities
intermediate
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free
German Culture, Media, and Society
Dr. Kurt Fendt
The topic for Fall 2006 is short film and radio plays. This course investigates current trends and topics in German...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Visual Arts
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini
Dr. Howard Eiland
How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that...
History Media Studies Literature
intermediate
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free
Workshop II: Qualitative Social Science Methods for Media Studies
Prof. Ian Condry
This course focuses on a number of qualitative social science methods that can be productively used in media studies...
Sociology Communication Media Studies
advanced
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free
A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society
Prof. Sunil H. Sharma
This course is an introduction to modern Indian culture and society through films, documentaries, short stories,...
Media Studies Sociology Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Internet Technology in Local and Global Communities
Mr. Manish Gaudi
This course is based on the work of the MIT-African Internet Technology Initiative (MIT-AITI). MIT-AITI is an...
Educational Technology Media Studies Electrical Engineering
intermediate
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free
Media Technology and City Design and Development
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
This workshop explores the potential of media technology and the Internet to enhance communication and transform...
Communication Urban Studies Media Studies
advanced
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free
Relational Machines
Prof. Cynthia Breazeal
This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building relational machines through a...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Electrical Engineering
advanced
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free
Techno-identity: Who we are and how we perceive ourselves and others
Prof. Judith Donath
The nature of human identity - how we think of ourselves, how we perceive others - is a mutable concept, changing...
Media Studies Philosophy Anthropology
advanced
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free
The Anthropology of Cybercultures
Prof. Lucy Suchman
This course explores a range of contemporary scholarship oriented to the study of ‘cybercultures,’ with a focus on...
Anthropology Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Forms of Western Narrative
Prof. James Cain
This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have...
Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics in Multimedia Production: Experiences in Interactive Art
Prof. Glorianna Davenport
This class deals with interactive art. Visiting artists will discuss their work from a theoretical and practical...
Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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free
Culture Tech
James Rising
This class is divided into a series of sections or “modules”, each of which concentrates on a particular large...
History Anthropology Media Studies
intermediate
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free
New Culture of Gender: Queer France
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course addresses the place of contemporary queer identities in French discourse and discusses the new...
Media Studies Anthropology Gender Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics in Media Technology: Cooperative Machines
Prof. Cynthia Breazeal
This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building machines that cooperate with humans and...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Topics: Designing Sociable Media
Prof. Judith Donath
This project-based course explores new design strategies for social interaction in the computer mediated world....
Engineering Visualization Media Studies
advanced
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free
Writing and Experience: MIT: Inside, Live
Lucy Marx
During this seminar, students will chronicle their MIT experiences and investigate MIT history and culture. Visits...
Media Studies Literature Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
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free
Workshop I
Dr. Edward C. Barrett
This course fulfills the first half of the Comparative Media Studies workshop sequence requirement for entering...
Media Studies Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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free
Games for Social Change
Scot Osterweil
Run as a workshop, students collaborate in teams to design and prototype games for social change and civic...
Media Studies Game Design Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate