Media and the Body. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 with a grade of C or better, and one 200-level Cultural Literacy GER course with a grade of C or higher. This course is grounded in forms of audio-visual media — especially moving images — that represent and impact human bodies, those of both its subjects and its spectators. But at the same time, our field of inquiry will be broadened by thinking through the ways that the body is itself a mediating force. Medium, by definition, refers to something that’s “in a middle position” or “facilitates transmission” — a reminder that the study of media is, at heart, the study of states of between-ness, and can help us think through embodiment and representation in essential ways. The course probes the creative and theoretical possibilities that emerge when we move our bodies — as thinkers, readers, writers, media-makers and spectators — into the foreground.