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NMDD-3150-V11- Creative Coding
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MTWR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course will develop programming skills used in the digital humanities, all in the context of critical and cultural media studies. Students will learn basic coding concepts such as variables, loops, graphics, and analyzing sound data, and will connect them to current debates in the culture of coding. No previous coding experience is required.

CRN: 14899

Instructor: Vacca, Ralph
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: DTEM

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DTEM-2421-V11- Digital Production New Media
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TWR, 10:00AM - 01:00PM

This course focuses on analysis and practice of visual design concepts as they apply to a wide range of digital software programs. The course generally covers photo editing, audio editing, video editing, desktop publishing, and basic website design. Classes are structured around individual production assignments with a focus on project management, composition, and layout.

CRN: 16494

Instructor: Katsafouros, Catherine
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: JDPR, JOUR, NMAC, NMAT, NMDD, NMMI, ZLB2

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DTEM-3500-V21- Resistance and Global Activism
Summer Session 2, July 01, 2025 - August 05, 2025
Online: TWR, 01:00PM - 05:00PM

This course studies the proliferation, and implications, of digital technology in political resistance. The goal is to provide students with analytical tools and skills for understanding the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary digital resistance. The course’s perspective is on the resistance played out in the “everyday life” of “ordinary” people: a resistance that might be widespread and diffused, individual or small scale, implicitly political, disguised, or even hidden. It brings to light how the “private” or “personal” can be political and explores the creativity of “cultural resistance.” Particular interest will be paid to studying new sources of power and their ability to subvert or censor acts of digital resistance. By taking this course, the participants will gain a sophisticated understanding of the role played by technology, and technology providers, in the performance of and resistance to power. Course participants will develop a critical understanding of the nature of technology and its implications for local, regional, and global justice. Note:

CRN: 16495

Instructor: Klang, Mathias
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: CCMS, CCUS, CELP, CMST, COMC, DTEV, NMDE

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DTEM-4440-V11- Privacy and Surveillance
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MTWR, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

New technologies, from closed-circuit television cameras to large databases, have shifted the information landscape in ways that call into question cultural assumptions and social norms about sharing, visibility, and the very essence of privacy. Can we have privacy in the digital age? Is mass surveillance justified? Whose interests are being served, and who is at risk? This course is designed to promote student awareness of and sensitivity to the ethics, values, and latest developments in global privacy and surveillance.

CRN: 15016

Instructor: Klang, Mathias
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, CELP, DTPL, NMAC, NMAT, NMDD, NMDE, NMMI

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DTEM-4480-L21- Dig Media & Pub Responsibility
Summer Session 2, July 01, 2025 - August 05, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

An examination of the public cultures, goods, and problems that emerge from the ongoing integration of digital media into everyday life. This course goes beyond a traditional focus on personal problems and responsibilities to explore how publics have and can take collective responsibility to address structural inequities in a digital society.

CRN: 14930

Instructor: Donovan, Gregory
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, CELP, DTEV, EP4, JETH, JOUR, NMDD, NMDE, VAL

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