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  • IN 401: The Media and the Holocaust

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Mainstream and alternative media's responses to information about the Holocaust and its aftermath through film, radio, television, and print media. Speak with Holocaust eyewitnesses and survivors. Pursue individual areas of interest with research projects. Consider what the media should be doing today to prevent continuing genocide.
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  • IN 402: Living Art in Real Space: Multidisciplinary Art and the Collaborative Process

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Examines the development and language of multidisciplinary art from the early 20th century to the present day, with reference to specific artists, trends, and movements. Lectures, slide and video presentations, museum visits, student research, reading, writing, and in-depth experiential processes address how different artistic disciplines inform one another and come together in visual art performance and installations. Course culminates in final presentations of multidisciplinary work by student groups documenting and mapping the sources, methods, and process of their collaborations.
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  • IN 403: The Shock of the Old: Representations and Renaissance Culture

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Themes of identity and difference, meaning and paradox, and accommodation and strife are traced through Renaissance drama, poetry, painting, music, other visual media, and the speculative essay. Explores "period" attemptswithin these media to formulate vocabularies of representation and affect. Relates one's own interpretive practices and assumptions to the thematics of Renaissance representation through written and oral exercises and examination of modern critical and artistic representations and (re)interpretations of Renaissance texts.
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  • IN 404: The Evolution of Queer Identity: History, Literature, Theory

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Evolution of queer (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) identity and culture through the lens of historical, literary (fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography), theoretical readings, films, and audio/visual media. Relationship between these fields and how they intertwine around the complex questions of queer identity and cultural representation. Is homosexuality, as stated by theorists such as Butler and Foucault, primarily a social construct, or is it something more essentialistic, as Dyer and Fuss suggest? Consider the role the arts in general has served in the queer liberation movement worldwide.
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  • IN 405: Moving Out, Moving In

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Explores process of ethnogenesis, of "becoming American," common to all immigrants in the United States. Questions provoked by "moving out" of one's own country and "moving in" another, the psychosocial journey of moving out and into one's self, one's culture, and one'community. What is identity? What does it mean to be visible? What are the real and imaginary journeys that comprise individual and collective maps of experience? Explore questions in interdisciplinary study and express discoveries through multidisciplinary art in a real artistic interaction with children in Boston's Latino community.
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  • IN 498: Directed Study

    2.00 - 4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Individual projects in areas of interdisciplinary study planned in collaboration with full-time faculty members to meet student's interests not satisfied by existing courses. Students must submit proposal for study with learning objectives, methods of evaluation, and bibliography before directed study is approved. All proposals approved in the semester preceding the semester in which students wants to complete the directed study. Proposal cannot substitute for a course in the catalogue. Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA, permission of full-time faculty member and Executive Director of Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies.
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  • JR 101: Discovering Journalism

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Explores the role of news in U.S. history, from its beginnings in the American Revolution to today's world of "all news all the time." Gain tools toanalyze and understand how print, broadcast, and online news organizations have evolved. Examine parallels between issues raised by the explosion of online news and earlier periods in journalistic evolution. Explore issues confronting the contemporary journalist by learning how news has evolved. Study the First Amendment and address ethical dilemmas faced by those practicing journalism.
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  • JR 102: The Newsgathering Process

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Establishes foundational skills to write, report, and deliver the news using a sound, focused idea and specific authoritative information. Examine how to identify, focus, and find news; to ferret out and make sense of online and library records; and to select sources and measure reliability and authoritativeness. Learn how to interview, write leads, and structure stories for print, broadcast, and online news, emphasizing journalistic standards such as accuracy and fairness. Prerequisite: JR 101 for freshmen. (Co-requisite for transfers.)
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  • JR 200: Images of News

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Develops a framework for understanding the power of images and sound in conveying news. Study the history, aesthetics, content, and context of visual storytelling. Rotate through introductory labs on such tools as still photography, audio recording, videography, and HTML. Develop team-based multimedia stories to report news using different media. Examine ethical challenges in a digital age when image and sound manipulation can distort reality and compromise journalistic integrity. Prerequisite: JR 102. Recommended: Take JR 200 concurrently with JR 204 or JR 205.
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  • JR 204: Print: Covering the Day's News

    4.00 Credits
    Emerson College

    Develops skills needed to report and write basic print stories on deadline. Learn the fundamentals of writing for a print medium with significant critique of story organization, leads, attribution, and style. Write and report on a variety of events in the city and on the Emerson campus. Prerequisite: JR 102. Recommended: Take concurrently with JR 200.
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