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Theoretical Foundations:
Week 1
Weds, Jan 19: Introduction
Fri, Jan 21: Theoretical Foundations I
Week 2
Mon, Jan 24: Approaches to Communication, Approaches to Media
Wednesday Jan 26: Semiotics
Formalist Media Theory:
Week 3:
Mon, Jan 31: Narration
Weds, Feb 2: Cinematography
Week 4:
Mon, Feb 7: Editing
Weds, Feb 9: Editing, continued
Production as Theoretical Application:
Week 5:
Mon, Feb 14: Semiotic Media Theory
Weds, Feb 16: Introduction to Assignment 1, Film Theory application
Week 6:
Mon, Feb 21: No Class, President’s Day
Weds, Feb 23: Remaining readings in Media Theory (Eco, Eisenstein, and Metz)
Contexts for Multimedia:
Week 7:
Mon, Feb 28: Theory and History of Computation (Read The Pattern on the Stone)
Weds, Mar 2: Object lesson review
Week 8:
Mon, Mar 7: Computational Media Theory
Weds, Mar 9: *Assignment 1 Due*
Week 9:
Mon, March 14: *Final Project Proposals Due*
Weds, Mar 16: Issues in Digital Preservation
*Spring Break*
Multimedia Systems
Week 11
Mon, Mar 28: Multimedia research, storage, retrieval
Weds, Mar 30: Digital Asset Management
Week 12
Mon, Apr 4:
Weds, Apr 6: Automated Media Analysis
Week 13
Mon, Apr 11: Mobile Media
Weds, Apr 13: Media Standards
*Media Production due*
Week 14
Mon, Apr 18: TBA
Weds, Apr 20: TBA
*Final Presentations April 29*