Academic History
Media and Communication Courses
MSCH-X472 Media Internship -- Course in progress
Faculty-supervised work in a communications field related to student's academic interests. Student must write a critical analysis paper and be evaluated by a workplace supervisor. S/F grading.
MSCH-S410 Sex in the Media -- Course in progress
Explores the role and portrayal of sex and sexuality in media and examines in detail the potential social and psychological effects of exposure to sexual content in the media.
MSCH-L425 Telecommunications Regulation -- Grade Received (B+)
Intensive Writing Course. Regulation of broadcasting, cable, and common carriage. Examination of the telecommunications regulation system. Regulation of entry into telecommunications (licensing and franchising), renewal of licenses and franchises, and government control of business and economic relations among participants in the field.
MSCH-S317 Chidren and Media -- Grade Received (B)
Acquaints students with the popular and research literatures on children and media, including television and computers. Students will be expected to identify recurring themes and topics related to children and media and to evaluate their significance in understanding the role of media in children's lives.
MSCH-M421 Economics of Communication Industries – Grade Received (A+)
Analysis of market structure and behavior of firms and organizations in broadcasting, cable television, motion picture distribution, print media, common carrier, and other communications industries. Policy and strategy applications.
MSCH-A337 Electronic Media Advertising – Grade Received (A)
Principles of internet, network, national spot, and local radio and television advertising, roles of advertising agency, station representative, time buyer.
MSCH-A347 Promotion and Marketing in Telecommunications – Grade Received (A)
Theory and practice of designing, implementing, and evaluating promotional materials and marketing campaigns for television programs, radio formats, call service, the Web and the new media.
TEL-T311 Media History – Grade Received (A+)
Surveys the historical development of mediated communication suggesting linkages between past and present. Examines a variety of time periods and media forms: telegraphy, telephony, radio, television, and computer communication.
CMCL-C392 Media Genres – Grade Received (A)
While discussions of documentary have, for the most part, focused on the social documentary tradition, the last couple of decades have seen a host of new types of documentary emerge. We have witnessed the growth of the popular theatrical documentary, an increased interest in the personal or autobiographical documentary, a plethora of nature documentaries, new models of animated documentary, the explosion of fake documentaries, the growth of sports documentaries and radio documentaries, and, of course, a never-ending supply of documentaries about sex. This course will explore these new forms and locate them in relation to the documentary tradition – both conceptually and historically. We will examine the extent to which these developments urge us to reconsider documentary’s traditional concern with public debate, realism, and objectivity. And we will ask what these changes say about contemporary society and media’s place therein.
TEL-T322 Telecommunication Networks – Grade Received (A)
The evolution of telecommunication network technology, policy economics, and industries from the 1870s to the present. Basic telecommunication transmission and switching, general operational concepts, and societal and cultural effect of telephony in the United States.
TEL T101 Media Life – Grade Received (A-)
T101 Media Life offers a roadmap for how you can choose to live a good and beautiful life in this world, where we live in (rather than with) media. Society as we know it is changing fast, and media play a shaping role in these transformations. People respond to this in extremely different ways: from deeply troubled observations about the increasingly isolated and disengaged nature of contemporary life to utopian daydreaming about the coolness of massive multiplayer gaming environments. In T101 Media Life we investigate these responses and debates, using our own experiences of living a life in media. T101 Media Life is a perfect gateway course for all University Division students across campus. T101 also satisfies a course requirement for minors, and is a required course for Telecommunications majors. My final project for this course can be found at the following link: Final Project TEL-T101.
TEL T205 Intro to Media and Society – This course will involve you in the study of media as social institutions that: (1) shape us (e.g., our taste, behavior, opinions, etc.); and (2) are shaped by social forces (economics, government, globalization). At an average, we spend 12-13 hours per day using media–there is nothing else we do more of. The goal of this class is to deepen your understanding of the complicated relationship between media, people, and societal institutions.
TEL-T 205 Intro to Media and Society -- Grade Received (B)
TEL-T 207 Intro to Telecom Industry and Management -- Grade Received (B)
TEL T206 Intro to Production and Design – Grade Received (B+)
Provides a conceptual framework for writing, designing, and evaluating a variety of media products. This is not a hands-on production course but does offer an overview of the production process. Topics include scriptwriting, production design, visualization, composition, editing styles, and others. This course is a prerequisite for advanced-level courses in the design/production area. My final project for this course can be found at the following link: Final Project TEL-T206.
TEL T207 Intro to Telecommunication Industry and Management – Introductory analysis, using a case-study method, of how telecommunications industries such as broadcasting, cable, and telephone are structured, funded, and regulated; how telecommunications organizations create and market programs and products, and how they manage their operations.
Business Courses
BUS-M300 Intro to Marketing -- Grade Received (B)
Offered for students with a formal minor in business who may be majoring in any non-business major on campus, including apparel merchandising and interior design, journalism, telecommunications, or sports marketing and management. Examination of the market economy and marketing institutions in the United States. Decision making and planning from the manager's point of view and impact of marketing actions from consumer's point of view.
BUS-Z302 Managing and Behavior in Organizations – Grade Received (B)
Z302 is a required course for all business majors. Integration of behavior and organizational theories. Application of concepts and theories toward improving individual, group, and organizational performance. Builds from a behavioral foundation toward an understanding of managerial processes.
BUS-L201 Legal Environment of Business – Grade Received (B)
L201 is an I-Core prerequisite that is required of all business majors. Emphasis on understanding the nature of law through examining a few areas of general interest, such as the duty to avoid harming others (torts), the duty to keep promises (contracts), and government regulation of business.
BUS-L312 The Ethical Responsibilities of Business – Grade Received (A-)
Focuses on legal issues affecting new and growing businesses. Topics include choosing a legal form for the business; financing-related legal issues; avoiding employment-related liability; contracts and sales; marketing and intellectual property laws; and legal issues concerning business sales; mergers, acquisitions, and liquidations.
BUS-A200 Foundations of Accounting – Grade Received (B)
The role of accounting in society and business, with a special emphasis on fundamental concepts and the basic design of accounting systems. For non-business majors who are interested in learning about how accounting affects their lives and businesses.
Language Courses
SPHS-A250 American Sign Language Level Four -- Grade Received (A)
Continues to develop knowledge of American Sign Language and of Deaf culture. Students will experience the language outside the classroom through interaction with the Deaf community.
SPHS-A200 American Sign Language Level Three – Grade Received (A+)
Emphasizes the development of conversational ability. Examines more complex grammatical structures, with emphasis on ability to use these structures in conversation. Readings, videos, and discussion cover characteristics of the Deaf population and their cultural values. This course does not fulfill SPHS credit hour requirements for the Speech and Hearing Sciences major.
SPHS-A100 American Sign Language Level Two – Grade Received (A)
Continues building receptive and expressive abilities. Puts emphasis on the use of signing space, facial grammar, body postures, fluent finger spelling, and continued vocabulary development. More complex grammatical structures are introduced. Deaf culture component included. This course will not count as part of the 42 credit hours taken in the department by speech and hearing sciences majors.
SPHS-A100 American Sign Language Level One - Grade Received (A)
The course is designed for students with no previous or little knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL). During the course, students will acquire basic ASL skills needed to communicate in a wide variety of situations through a functional-notional approach. Classes are conducted in American Sign Language with no use of voice communication. Deaf Culture is incorporated throughout the course.
FRIT M100 Elementary Italian -- Grade Received (B+)
Core Academic Courses
COLL-P155 Public Oral Communication – Grade Received (A)
Prepares students in the liberal arts to communicate effectively with public audiences. Emphasizes oral communication as practiced in public contexts: how to advance reasoned claims in public; how to adapt public oral presentations to particular audiences; how to listen to, interpret, and evaluate public discourse; and how to formulate a clear response.
HIST-H239 Blood and Guts – Western Medicine – Grade Received (B+)
Medical history is an exciting sub-field of history that has grown in importance over the past three decades. It is no longer principally a tale of great doctors and inevitable progress. Rather, today’s history of medicine seeks to situate stories of health and illness within deeper historical contexts and enhance our understanding of past societies. A basic premise of this course is that the history of medicine can only be understood in the context of the society of which it is a part. Thus, we will devote as much attention as possible to the patient’s side of the story (what is often referred to as ‘doing medical history from below’); to community and family care as well as to hospitals; to all forms of medical training (academic and apprentice, formal and informal); to epidemics and their meanings; to folk and popular healing; to the role of race and gender in medicine; and to the profound ethical questions that have always been part of medicine. We will begin with Greco-Roman medicine and end in the early twenty-first century. Classes will consist of a mixture of lectures and discussions.
MSCI-M216 The Medical Science of Psychoactive Drugs – Grade Received (B-)
Psychoactive drugs pervade modern societies, yet few understand how they work, why they are so potent, and how they affect all levels of the body. This course will examine how these drugs act both within the brain and throughout the rest of the body. We will learn why impulsive use of some of these drugs can sometimes lead to compulsive use, and how chronic compulsive use causes effects both inside and outside the brain. We will also learn why other psychoactive compounds can instead cure disease without serious negative effects on the body.We will present scientific evidence about these drugs in an evenhanded manner. Together, we can evaluate whether a certain drug should be prohibited, restricted, or even made available for specific medicinal purposes.
ENG W170 Sympathy for the Villain – Grade Received (A-)
In this course we explored the inner minds of the Villian and the underlying characteristics and traits that make up the villain. Through video media, song, poetry and literature we examined many different definitions of the villain in order to gain a better understanding of the term itself.
FINA A280 Art of Comics – Grade Received (B+)
This course will survey the formal and social history of the comics medium in America from the first American comic-book of 1842, The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, to the Silver Age of superhero comics at Marvel and the rise of underground comics in the late 1960s. Topics will include the development of the comic strip in humor magazines of the 1880s; the birth of the newspaper comic strip and of the comics supplement in the 1890s; masterpieces of the American comic strip in the first half of the twentieth century such as Little Nemo in Slumberland, Krazy Kat, and Gasoline Alley; and the continuity adventure strip in the 1930s. Postwar examples of minimalist newspaper strips, such as Peanuts and Nancy will also be studied. The second half of the semester will be devoted to the rise of the comic-book industry from the 1930s through the ‘60s, and the new popularity of genres such as superhero adventure, horror, war, and humor. Comic-book artists studied will include Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Steve Ditko, Harvey Kurtzman and the ‘usual gang of idiots’ at EC Comics/Mad Magazine, and R. Crumb. Throughout the class, a main focus will be the gradual development of the visual language of comics in all its complexity.
PSY P101 Introductory Psychology 1 – Grade Received (B)
Introduction to psychology; its methods, data, and theoretical interpretations in areas of learning, sensory psychology, and psychophysiology. Equivalent to IUPUI B105 and P151. Credit given for only one of P101, or P151, or P106.
MATH M119 – Grade Received (C)
Introduction to calculus. Primarily for students from business and the social sciences. A student cannot receive credit for more than one of the following: M119 or MATH J113. No credit is given for M119 if taken after M211.
HIST H105 – Grade Received (A-)
This course provides a topical introduction to American history from the era of Columbus’s exploration of the ‘New World,’ up through the era of the American Civil War. As our guiding themes we will focus on cultural tensions between freedom and unfreedom, between equality and inequality, and between prosperity and poverty. Has it ever, for example, been possible in American history to imagine ‘equality’ without at the same time excluding some people? In examining such cultural tensions, we will look in particular at how notions of gender, class, and race have changed over time, first in a ‘colonial’ context when European peoples sought to transfer ideals and practices to the challenging new environment of North America, and then in a ‘postcolonial’ context when competing social groups struggled for position in the young American nation.
HIST H106 – Grade Received (B+)
This course is a survey of United States history since the Civil War (1865). It is concerned with major events in the recent American experience, such as world wars, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights Movement, but will also focus attention on overarching themes, such as race, gender, class, region, and technological innovations, which have uniquely defined modern America. The course readings include ‘A People and a Nation’ (textbook), Robert Norrell’s ‘Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee’, and one other book, along with a few short articles.
Additional Courses
SPH-H 180 Stress Prevention and Management – Course in progress
This course is designed to help students learn about the body's reaction to perceived stress, mental and physical factors related to stress, and effective coping techniques to help mitigate causes of stress. Students may acquire several stress management techniques that include diaphragmatic breathing, visualization, meditation, and progressive muscular relaxation.
SPH-H 315 Consumer Health – Course in progress
This course provides students with (1) a model for making informed consumer health related decisions; (2) current information involving consumer related topics, emphasizing necessity of current information for making informed decisions; (3) mechanisms for continued consumer awareness and protection, i.e., sources of accurate consumer information and lists of consumer information and protection agencies.
COLL-C103 Cloak and Dagger – Grade Received (A)
This course introduces students to one of the most basic concepts of literary criticism – literary genres – with specific reference to a popular genre such as the so-called “thriller.” “Thriller” is a term that came into use in the late nineteenth century and was applied not only to the detective story, the most famous examples of which were A. Conan Doyle’s tales about Sherlock Holmes, but also to a closely related literary genre, the spy novel, that also attained great popularity during the period.
SPHS-I133 Fitness and Jogging I – Grade Received (S) - Course taken for Satisfacotry/Fail
Beginning instruction in the basic principles of fitness as they apply to a jogging program. Emphasis on cardiorespiratory endurance and flexibility. Basic concepts underlying Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s aerobic program. For students without prior experience in jogging programs, aerobics levels I through III.
FOLK-F364 Children’s Folklore/Folk life/Folk music – Grade Received (A)
The traditional rhymes, riddles, stories, games, folklife, or music associated with “the culture of childhood.” The role these forms play in peer-group activity and in the social and cognitive development of the child.
MUS-P110 Beginners Piano for Nonmusic Majors – Grade Received (A)
This class is designed for people who have no—or very little—musical experience, and who want to learn how to play the piano. While this is a fun class, you will only get as much out of it as you put in. You should expect to practice an average of 30-40 minutes a day, although the load may vary a little from student to student.
EDUC-U212 Current Issues in Undergraduate Life – Grade Received (S)
The main goals of this course are to 1) prepare you for your Work Component position duties and 2) provide a structure for your ongoing reflection to ensure growth and development through your Work Component position and undergraduate experience in general.The overall objective for the Cox Exploratory Scholars Work Component Positions is to assist undergraduate students at IUB, as well as prospective students, with the exploration, decision-making, planning and reflection processes related to their undergraduate education. Most Work Component duties will involve helping students find and use resources needed to plan their own education and, more broadly, their academic, personal and professional development; these resources include academic advising, career advising, online degree planning tools, and student support services. A key duty will be to share your experiences pursuing your goals. In short, the Cox Exploratory Scholars will serve as “Exploratory Leaders” on campus.