Introduction to theory and research on both old and new communication technologies; focus will be on (a) how these technological systems develop and are used, and (b) what implications of these systems have for culture and society.

Survey of the development of equipment, techniques, and themes of the cinema from the coming of sound to the present; lectures, discussions, and showings of selected films.

Digital media is an immensely pervasive and powerful form of communication, one that despite its quick rise has yet to reach most of the world's population. This large lecture-based survey course for undergraduates will trace the history and formation of personal computing and the Internet, the development of virtual communities and virtual worlds, evolving forms of digital representation and communication, digital visual cultures, features of new media industries, and the rise of participatory media. Evaluation and assessment based on written exams, quizzes, class discussion in section, and practice-based assignments using new media technologies such as wikis, blogs, games, and digital video. Lectures will be held in an ITS classroom, and course material will be supported by small ITS-supported discussion sections. Emphasis on mastering key concepts of digital media theory and history, and critical discussion of distinctive features of digital media objects.

Writing-intensive, variable topic course designed to improve English majors' ability to write clear, well-organized, analytically sound and persuasively argued essays relevant to literary studies. Introduces students to some strategies of literary criticism and research through examination of critical texts appropriate to course topic. For majors only. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement; one year of college literature or consent of instructor.

Bilingualism and Translation
This course allows students interested in translation and creative writing to critically study selected writings by authors published bilingually, to reflect on the ways in which the practice of translation may be informed by cases of self-translation, and to encounter biographical aspect of bilingualism that directly relates to translators' self-perception and the experience of translation. The emphasis is on how the authors' strategies in self-translation compare with the strategies of the translator and how bilingualism relates to self, creativity, national identity, and politics. The students will analyze the different discourse strategies in English and the authors' other language as manifested in the bilingual text pairs of their choice. They will develop bilingual reading strategies. They will reflect upon and write about their own linguistic identity. The readings will be of three kinds: literary works in their authors' language pair (i.e., Wilde, Joyce, Nabokov, Brodsky, Beckett, Conrad, Rilke, Lin Yu-tang, Isaac Bashevis Singer, A. Dorfman, Gloria Anzaldua, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Susan Harjo), autobiographical essays related to bilingualism, and theoretical essays related to bilingualism, self-translation, and translation. PREREQUISITES: Students should be able to read fluently in one of the following languages: French, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese. If a student reads fluently in the language(s) not listed here and would like to join the class, the student has to have a clear idea with what bilingual writer he or she will be working in two languages. The writer does not have to be a fiction writer, but should have self-translated texts. 3 hours for undergraduat students; 4 hours for graduate students

Commercial & Tech. Translation
This course constitutes an elective course for the Certificate in Translation Studies. It is also of interest to students of foreign languages interested in pursuing a career in business. The course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of commercial and technical translation. It also offers a unit on technical writing that will serve as the foundation for approaching the commercial and technical translation course materials. The course will begin with a unit on commercial and technical writing. Students will be expected as an outcome of this unit to produce a portfolio of business and technical documents relating to a fictional business. The second portion of the course will be spent on the topic of commercial and technical translation broadly conceived and approached from both a real-world and a theoretical perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the translator's role, the nature of technical documentation, usability from the perspective of cognitive science, usability engineering and usability assessment. Practical applications of this portion of the course include short reaction papers on readings, an assignment using TRADOS that implements the notion of iconic linking, translations of specific technical documents from a source language into English, and a final project portfolio composed of a selection of their best translations along with a usability assessment of three other user guides that have been translated from their source language into English.