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USC Catalogue 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

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USC School of Cinematic Arts

Courses

Media Arts and Practice

Note: Instructor availability for a particular course or section cannot be guaranteed.

  • IML 444 Thesis Project II

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Production of a digital thesis project.
    Prerequisite: IML 441 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Media Arts and Practice majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 450 Critical Play and Documentary Games

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigation of the history and theory of games designed to prompt social change, with a hands-on component in the creation of documentary game projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 456 Nature, Design and Media

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Investigation of the impact of natural patterns on digital media design. Explores the relationships among chaos, harmony, beauty, proportion, spirituality, holistic systems and shaped experience. 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 458 The Embedded Story: Designing Digital Landscapes and Languages

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Exploration of the imagined territories where language and landscape originate, converge and are transformed. Students will collaborate to create media in cross-platform environments.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 457  or IML 456  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 466 Digital Studies Symposium

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Lectures, presentations, and readings introducing cutting-edge digital media innovations and applications. Analysis of the critical and creative challenges of contemporary digital media practices.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 475 Media Arts Research Lab

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    A hands-on mentored research lab experience within the context of media art and in association with a real-world project.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Prerequisite: IML 104  or IML 201  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Selected topics in multimedia literacy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 500 Digital Media Tools and Tactics

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to digital scholarship at the graduate level, with a focus on media research ecologies, online portfolios and distributed scholarly presence. Open only to graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 501L Seminar in Contemporary Digital Media

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An in-depth examination of the development of digital technologies in their cultural and historic contexts, with equal emphasis on digital analysis and production. Open only to graduate students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 502 Techniques of Information Visualization

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Critical and practical analysis of scholarly data visualization using diverse platforms. Open only to graduate students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 535 Tangible Computing in the Humanities and Sciences

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Study and creation of scholarly multimedia projects integrating hardware, software and interactivity to consider new forms for scholarly expression within the realm of pervasive computing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 543 Transdisciplinary Media Design Practicum

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Collaboration of artists and designers with non-art professionals to develop cross-disciplinary, media-based creative interventions. 
    Recommended Preparation: CTIN 503   and CTIN 541 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 555 Digital Pedagogies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An exploration of varied pedagogical approaches and strategies informed by critical engagement with digital media and networked technologies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 575 Graduate Media Arts Research Lab

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    A hands-on mentored graduate research lab experience within the context of media art and in association with a real-world project. Open only to graduate students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 585 Creative Critical Writing Workshop

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    A writing workshop to explore innovative forms for critical writing, media-rich writing and video that borrow from creative nonfiction, the lyric essay, poetic/vernacular criticism.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Detailed investigation of new or emergent practices in digital media; special subjects offered by visiting faculty; experimental subjects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 600 Historical Approaches to Media Arts and Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to the historical specificities of “old” media (painting, print, photography, film, video, television) and to consequences of the convergences produced by “new” media forms.
    Duplicates Credit in former CNTV 600.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 601 Seminar in Media and Design Studies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Creation of a work of digital culture, informed by cultural theory, and planned using current design methods and practices.
    Duplicates Credit in former CNTV 601.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 602 Practice of Media Arts

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to a range of technologies and media types, while identifying and developing a specialization in one or more areas of practice.
    Duplicates Credit in former CNTV 602.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 603 Media Arts and Practice Colloquium/Professional Seminar

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Orientation to the profession, opportunities, presentation and analysis of recent developments and applications in Media Arts and Practice.
    Duplicates Credit in former CNTV 603.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • IML 604 Theories of Media Arts and Practice

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Develops an anti-essentialist theory of technology adequate to the digital age that serves as a conceptual and critical framework for developing a contemporary technological imagination.
    Duplicates Credit in former CNTV 604.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 605 Cinema to Post-Cinema and Beyond: History, Theory, Practice

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to contemporary media theory, with attention to posthumanism, networks, and the post-cinematic, and a demonstration of these concepts in media art.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  • IML 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in CNTV 794a 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • IML 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in CNTV 794b  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • IML 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in CNTV 794c  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • IML 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in CNTV 794d  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • IML 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in CNTV 794z  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

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