Literature, Media & Comm (LMC)

LMC 1XXX. Literature, Media, & Communication Elective. 1-21 Credit Hours.

LMC 2000. Introduction to Literature, Media, and Communication. 3 Credit Hours.

An the introductory course to LMC, this course introduces students to key texts and modes of analysis associated with the study of literature, film, digital media, and communication.

LMC 2050. Seminar in Literature, Media, and Communication. 3 Credit Hours.

This course introduces second-semester majors to the intellectual movements, interpretive frameworks, and research skills central to the disciplines represented in LMC.

LMC 2060. Introduction to Literary Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

Students will study literary and cultural texts, methods, and critical movements from a variety of perspectives and historical periods.

LMC 2100. Introduction to Science, Technology and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Relation to other courses, programs and curricula: As the introductory course to the LMC Science, Technology and Culture thread, this course explores the way in which disciplines construct and represent the knowledge they generate.

LMC 2200. Introduction to Gender Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

This course introduces the cultural concept of gender, examining topics such as biology and gender, social constructions of gender, and the psychology of sexual roles.

LMC 2350. Introduction to Social Justice. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduces students to the work and theory of social justice through readings from various disciplines, including literature, history, anthropology, philosophy, science, policy, and law.

LMC 2400. Introduction to Media Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

This course offers an introduction to the historical development and cultural impact of various forms of media print, radio, television, film, and interactive electronic applications.

LMC 2410. Introduction to Game Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to the games studies and game designs.

LMC 2450. Introduction to Black Media Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduces scholarship in Black Media Studies (BMS), which studies the relationships among media, culture, and racial politics by and about people of African descent.

LMC 2500. Introduction to Film. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduces film techniques and vocabulary in an historical and cultural context. Written texts are supplemented by viewings of specific shots, scenes, and films.

LMC 2500R. LMC 2500 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Introduction to Film.

LMC 2600. Introduction to Performance Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

An examination of the origins of the field of performance studies in literary study of theatre and drama, anthropological investigations of ritual, and sociological analyses of performance in everyday life.

LMC 2661. Theatre Production I. 1 Credit Hour.

In this hands-on course, students learn theatrical construction and painting techniques while building scenery for DramaTech productions.

LMC 2662. Theatre Production II. 1 Credit Hour.

In this hands-on course, students create the lighting, property, and costume effects for two DramaTech Theatre productions.

LMC 2698. Research Assistantship. 1-12 Credit Hours.

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LMC 2699. Undergraduate Research. 1-12 Credit Hours.

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LMC 2700. Introduction to Computational Media. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to key concepts, methods, and achievements in computational media, and the convergence of digital technology with cultural traditions of representation.

LMC 2720. Principles of Visual Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Studio-based course that provides students with basic skills needed to create digital visual images and to analyze designs from historical and theoretical perspectives.

LMC 2730. Constructing the Moving Image. 3 Credit Hours.

Provides the student with the conceptual, formal, aesthetic, and technical approaches to reconsider film, videos, and animation within the context of emerging digital forms.

LMC 2823. Special Topics in Literature and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Examination of one or more topics of current interest in literary and cultural studies.

LMC 2XXX. Literature, Media, & Communication Elective. 1-21 Credit Hours.

LMC 3062. Film Acting Workshop. 3 Credit Hours.

A workshop-based introduction to screen acting and the acting profession for the student who is interested in participating in the film and television industries.

LMC 3102. Science, Technology, and the Classical Tradition. 3 Credit Hours.

Explores the definition and transmission of science and technology within Greek, Arabic, and medieval Latin contexts.

LMC 3104. The Age of Scientific Discovery. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines the relationships among texts representing the literary, artistic, and scientific thought of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

LMC 3106. The Age of Scientific Revolution. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines interrelation of technological, literary, artistic, and philosophical thought in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

LMC 3112. Evolution and the Industrial Age. 3 Credit Hours.

Connects later nineteenth century scientific and technological concepts and discoveries, particularly theories of evolution, to the literature and culture of the industrial age.

LMC 3202. Studies in Fiction. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines the elements of fiction and what has made fiction, especially the novel, distinctive, popular, and enduring. Readings may include formal, cultural, and historical theories.

LMC 3204. Poetry and Poetics. 3 Credit Hours.

A study of traditions of poetic practice and poetic theory in English through intensive line by line readings of poems from different periods in literary history.

LMC 3206. Communication and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines ways in which forms and media of communication create and are created by other cultural constructs.

LMC 3208. African American Literature and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Explores the works of African American writers from the Colonial period to the present and examines a variety of cultural constructs that have fundamentally shaped the African American literary tradition.

LMC 3210. Ethnicity in American Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Explores literary and historical works considering ethnic issues in American culture, including immigration, social assimilation, "double consciousness", the development of ethnic identity/pride, and multiculturalism.

LMC 3212. Women, Literature, and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Students in this course will analyze writings by women and examine feminist and other relevant cultural critiques of literature.

LMC 3214. Science Fiction. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines science fiction texts from the last 200 years to show how they reflect ambigous reactions to change.

LMC 3215. Science Fiction Film and Television. 3 Credit Hours.

This course investigates science fiction as the genre developed during film history and has become one of the most popular forms of television narrative.

LMC 3215R. LMC 3215 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Science Fiction Film & Television.

LMC 3219. Literature and Medicine. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines works of literature dealing overtly with illness and healing, works about or by physicians and other caregivers, and works that raise questions about ethical behavior in the face of sickness.

LMC 3225. Gender Studies in the Disciplines. 3 Credit Hours.

This course explores the concept of gender and its usefulness as a theoretical category in a variety of disciplines. It includes cultural studies of literature, communication media, cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science.

LMC 3226. Major Authors. 3 Credit Hours.

An examination of the works and career of a major author in historical and cultural context.

LMC 3228. Shakespeare. 3 Credit Hours.

An examination of Shakespeare's works with attention to generic conventions, historical context, and the relationship of text and performance. Major works of Shakespeare's contemporaries are studied as appropriate.

LMC 3234. Creative Writing. 3 Credit Hours.

This course explores a range of creative literary genres, and combines study and analysis of existing modes of one or more forms in order to establish a basis for original creative work by class members.

LMC 3236. Writing for the Stage and Screen. 3 Credit Hours.

Basic principles of generating creative concepts, dramatic structure, character and dialogue development, and formatting for stage and screenplays.

LMC 3252. Studies in Film and Television. 3 Credit Hours.

Explores in depth a theoretical issue central to film and/or television. Among its concerns are authorship, genre history, spectatorship, ideology, narrative theory, and the relationship between these media and social history.

LMC 3252R. LMC 3252 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Studies in Film & Television.

LMC 3253. Animation. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines animation from its earliest days as a "cinema of attractions' to its current development as a predominantly digital practice.

LMC 3253R. LMC 3253 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Animation.

LMC 3254. Film History. 3 Credit Hours.

Surveys the history of film from its machine origins to its present digital developments. It focuses on various movements, figures, and narrative developments in world cinema.

LMC 3254R. LMC 3254 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Film History.

LMC 3255. Cinema and Digital Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines the impact of digital technologies on contemporary cinema as well as the influence of different cinematic traditions on new digital media.

LMC 3255R. LMC 3255 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Cinema and Digital Culture.

LMC 3256. Major Filmmakers. 3 Credit Hours.

Traces in depth an individual artist's career and affords students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the works of an important figure in the world of film.

LMC 3256R. LMC 3256 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Major Filmmakers.

LMC 3257. Global Cinema. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines selected movements, styles, and trends in world cinema, emphasizing how contemporary film's global nature affects cultural representation.

LMC 3257R. LMC 3257 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Global Cinema.

LMC 3258. Documentary Film. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines significant movements, styles, and trends in fact-based film, emphasizing its cultural implications and formal strategies.

LMC 3258R. LMC 3258 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Documentary Film.

LMC 3259. Experimental Film. 3 Credit Hours.

This course examines the history and trends in experimental film and video, emphasizing the relationship to avant-garde art movements.

LMC 3259R. LMC 3259 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Experimental Film—Recitation.

LMC 3262. Performance Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

An examination of cultural theories of performance and their application to the analysis of specific performative events.

LMC 3263. Music, Culture, and Society. 3 Credit Hours.

Origins and development of contemporary popular music, including rock, trap, hip-hop, and other emerging and established forms.

LMC 3302. Science, Technology, and Ideology. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines specific scientific, philosophical, and literary/cultural texts in order to determine the role ideology plays in the construction of culture, especially scientific and technological culture.

LMC 3304. Science, Technology, and Gender. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines specific philosophical, scientific, and cultural texts to determine the role that gender has played in the scientific and technological knowledge, currently and historically.

LMC 3306. Science, Technology, and Race. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines specific historical and contemporary construction of race, within the prevailing scientific theories and ideologies in order to determine the role played by "race" in scientific and technological culture.

LMC 3308. Environmentalism and Ecocriticism. 3 Credit Hours.

Surveys the emergence of ecocriticism as an analytical framework for interpreting the verbal and visual rhetorics of environmentalism in both western and nonwestern cultures.

LMC 3310. The Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry. 3 Credit Hours.

This course takes as its subject the ways in which argumentative and persuasive discourse is used to create and disseminate scientific knowledge.

LMC 3314. Technologies of Representation. 3 Credit Hours.

Explores historical, cultural, and theoretical issues related by technologies of representation, including written, spoken, and gestural languages; print, painting and illustration; still and moving photography; recorded sound; and computer mediated communications and interactive digital media.

LMC 3316. Science, Technology, and Postcolonialism. 3 Credit Hours.

Studies in the development of Postcolonial literary theory and historiography in order to analyze the interdependent discourses and practices of post-Enlightenment science/technology and European imperialism.

LMC 3318. Biomedicine and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Discuss the history of biology and medicine; popular representations of health, disease, and the medical establishment; and the cultural implications of medical imaging technologies.

LMC 3352. Film and/as Technology. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines the development of film technology and the implications of that technology for cinema's treatment of technology.

LMC 3352R. LMC 3352 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Film And/As Technology.

LMC 3402. Graphic and Visual Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to fundamentals of graphic and visual design of print and digital media. Familiarity with use of the World Wide Web, page layout, and computer graphic software recommended.

LMC 3403. Technical Communication, Theory and Practice. 3 Credit Hours.

This course introduces students to workplace document genres to develop visual and verbal skills in critical analysis and document development.

LMC 3404. Social Media. 3 Credit Hours.

Students learn the cultural history, theory, and practice of social media in a variety of settings, and its impact on personal, professional, and political life.

LMC 3405. Media, Culture, and Society. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines the transformative impact of various kinds of media on culture, politics, communication, and education.

LMC 3406. Video Production. 3 Credit Hours.

An introduction to video production including basic skills in storyboarding, scripting, filming, editing, and sound.

LMC 3407. Advanced Video Production. 3 Credit Hours.

This production course teaches students to create visually compelling and emotionally powerful images through shot design and the use of lights, cameras and prime lenses.

LMC 3408. The Rhetoric of Technical Narratives. 3 Credit Hours.

Focuses on the rhetorical problems posed by such narrative documents as technical proposals, recommendations reports, grant proposals, and marketing studies. Emphasis on document design, graphics, navigation systems, and editing.

LMC 3410. The Rhetoric of Nonlinear Documents. 3 Credit Hours.

Focuses on the rhetorical problems posed by hypertext documents. Emphasis in designing for multiple audiences, page and document design, and navigation in a nonlinear environment.

LMC 3411. The Rhetoric of Visual Communication. 3 Credit Hours.

Focuses on contexts, audiences, arguements, and design in creating and critiquing visuals. Emphasizes topics such as information design, technical visuals, and photography.

LMC 3412. Communicating Science and Technology to the Public. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines both the theoretical and practical issues involved in communicating scientific and/or technological material to a variety of lay audiences.

LMC 3431. Technical Communication Approaches. 1 Credit Hour.

Part of a multi-semester sequence that students take in tandem with major-specific classes to develop professional written, visual, oral, and analytic strategies.

LMC 3432. Technical Communication Strategies. 2 Credit Hours.

Part of a multi-semester sequence that students take in tandem with major-specific classes to develop professional written, visual, oral, and analytic strategies.

LMC 3450. Blackness, Media, and Meaning-Making. 3 Credit Hours.

Considers the significance of Blackness in print, broadcast, and digital media.

LMC 3451. Race, Gender, and Digital Media. 3 Credit Hours.

Explores issues of race, ethnicity, and gender + the politics of technology (technoculture) in digital venues, social media, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and mundane digital phenomena.

LMC 3452. Introduction to Black Cultural Production. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines the communicative and cultural practices of Black mediated narratives across the Diaspora.

LMC 3453. Afrofuturism. 3 Credit Hours.

Students study Black cultural producers melding art and technology in science fiction and fantasy that reflect the complicated politics of envisioning the future.

LMC 3454. Producing Black Documentary Film and Podcasts. 3 Credit Hours.

Connects building healthy Black communities and Black economic empowerment within the framework of contemporary documentary filmmaking. Students will write, produce, edit, and distribute a mini-documentary.

LMC 3455. Major Topics in Black Media Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

Surveys the origins, development, and considers conventions through an investigation of major topics of black media and music.

LMC 3456. Technoculture. 3 Credit Hours.

Grounded in a critical race and cultural theoretic framework, the course explores systems and practices of scientific inquiry as mediated by Whiteness, imperialism, and modernity.

LMC 3457. Black Cultural Politics and the Southern Experience. 3 Credit Hours.

Investigate racial politics, social justice, and technocultural innovation across Atlanta and the American South.

LMC 3459. Afrofuturism and the Anthropocene. 3 Credit Hours.

Explores history and current status of Afrofuturism, a cultural movement, an epistemology, and an aesthetic centering Blackness and technology with visions for the future considering the Anthropocene.

LMC 3502. Ancient and Medieval Literature and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe through an examination of one or a few major culture conflicts expressed in the literary genres and periods.

LMC 3504. Renaissance Literature and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

An examination of literature and culture from 1450 to 1650 with an emphasis on both major achievements and divergent voices.

LMC 3506. Enlightenment and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines the nature of the age from an intial boldness, optimism, and faith in reason to a recognition of its limits.

LMC 3511. American Literature & Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduces students to American literature and culture broadly construed, examining foundational works of critical and historical significance.

LMC 3512. British and Continental Romanticism. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines British and Continental Romanticism as it appeared during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.

LMC 3514. Victorian Literature and Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

Investigates the period 1830 - 1901 in English literature and culture, focusing on how that period defined key questions, especially ones about human nature, society, and the relation of religion to science.

LMC 3516. Literary and Cultural Modernism. 3 Credit Hours.

A partial investigation of the aesthetic ferment that characterizes English-language cultural production from the turn of the century to the end of World War II.

LMC 3518. Literary and Cultural Postmodernism. 3 Credit Hours.

A survey of major themes, representational techniques, and social and cultural concerns of postmodern art and literature.

LMC 3520. Contemporary Issues in Literature & Culture. 3 Credit Hours.

This course will cover a range of possible critical areas of global concern in contemporary literature and culture. Focus will vary each semester.

LMC 3661. Theatre Production III: Management. 1 Credit Hour.

In this "hands-on" course, students will create and execute a publicity campaign and operate the box office for DramaTech Theatre productions.

LMC 3662. Theatre Production IV: Acting. 1 Credit Hour.

This course providess students an opportunity to perform onstage in a production at DramaTech Theatre. Auditions are required.

LMC 3705. Principles of Information Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Presents principles and practices guiding the development of emerging digital genres. Emphasis on maximizing the affordances of the computer in organizing and communicating complex information.

LMC 3710. Principles of Interaction Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines principles of design for shaping the procedural and participatory affordances of digital environments, emphasizing the role of cultural context and media transitions.

LMC 3813. Special Topics. 3 Credit Hours.

Special Topics.

LMC 3XXX. Literature, Media, & Communication Elective. 1-21 Credit Hours.

LMC 4000. Senior Seminar in Literature, Media, and Communication. 3 Credit Hours.

Capstone seminar that asks majors to draw upon their training to engage in closer analysis, research, and/or production in topical area. Topic varies by instructor.

LMC 4102. Senior Thesis. 3 Credit Hours.

Preparation for and writing of a thesis through faculty-directed independent study.

LMC 4204. Poetry and Poetics II. 3 Credit Hours.

Advanced study of the traditions of poetic theory and practice with a special emphasis on processes of poetic conception and revision.

LMC 4406. Contemporary Issues in Professional Communication. 3 Credit Hours.

Intended primarily for students planning careers in professional communication, this course will alternate among a number of issues including property law, integrating print and electronic media, and cultural studies of corporate environments.

LMC 4407. Video Editing and Postproduction. 3 Credit Hours.

Introduction to Editing and Post Production develops the skills and knowledge of digital film post-production, concentrating on editing, editing theory, narrative editing, and post-production workflow.

LMC 4500. Seminar in Film Studies. 3 Credit Hours.

An in-depth investigation of a major movement, theory, period, or technological development in film studies.

LMC 4500R. LMC 4500 Recitation. 0 Credit Hours.

Film Screening for Seminar in Film.

LMC 4602. Performance Practicum. 3 Credit Hours.

Practical experience and theoretical investigations in theatre and performance making including acting, directing, designing, playwriting, performance art, performance and new media.

LMC 4698. Research Assistantship. 1-12 Credit Hours.

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LMC 4699. Undergraduate Research. 1-12 Credit Hours.

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.

LMC 4701. Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing. 1 Credit Hour.

This course is intended to guide undergraduate students from all disciplines through the stages of writing a proposal for their research option project and thesis.

LMC 4702. Undergraduate Research Thesis Writing. 1 Credit Hour.

This course is intended to guide undergraduate students from all disciplines through the stages of writing their undergraduate thesis.

LMC 4710. Game Studio. 3 Credit Hours.

Project-based course in designing and implementing video games.

LMC 4720. Interactive Narrative. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines significant examples of this emerging genre, including its roots ini experimental uses of older media, and engages students in creating their own interactive narrative.

LMC 4725. Games Design as a Cultural Practice. 3 Credit Hours.

Emphasis is on the design elements common to games and the expressive possibilities and cultural concerns specific to digital games.

LMC 4730. Experimental Digital Art. 3 Credit Hours.

Provides students with key conceptual, formal, aesthetic and technical elements needed in creating artifacts in areas ranging from augmented and mixed reality to scientific visualization.

LMC 4731. Game AI. 3 Credit Hours.

Examines expressive possibilities of artificial intelligence techniques in computer games.

LMC 4733. Mixed Reality Experience Design. 3 Credit Hours.

Project-based course in designing implementing experiences using the technologies of Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality. Credit not awarded for both LMC 4733 and CS 4770/6770/LMC 6340.

LMC 47XX. Lit, Media, & Comm Elective. 1-21 Credit Hours.

LMC 4811. Special Topics. 1 Credit Hour.

Topic of current interest not covered in the regular course offerings.

LMC 4812. Special Topics. 2 Credit Hours.

Topics of current interest not covered in the regular course offerings.

LMC 4813. Special Topics. 3 Credit Hours.

Topics of interest not covered in the regular course offerings.

LMC 4814. Special Topics. 4 Credit Hours.

LMC 4815. Special Topics. 5 Credit Hours.

Topics of interest not covered in the regular course offerings.

LMC 4904. Internship. 1-6 Credit Hours.

Offers students a workplace-based learning experience that stresses application of principles and skills gained in other STAC classes.

LMC 4XXX. Literature, Media, & Communication Elective. 1-21 Credit Hours.