Comparative Media Studies/Writing Undergraduate Courses

 Graduate Courses
Creating Video Games, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, Students will learn creative design and production methods, working together in smal
Darwin and Design, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, Humans are social animals; social demands, both cooperative and competitive, structu
Digital Poetry, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This class investigates theory and practice of digital or new media poetry with emph
Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to expr
Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, sel
Expository Writing: Exploring Social and Ethical Issues through Film and Print, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This section of Expository Writing provides the opportunity for students- as readers
Game Design, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This course is built around practical instruction in the design and analysis of non-
Intro to Tech Communication, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, An information-based society necessitates good writing in all careers. Many scien
Photography and Truth, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, Still photography, a practice and form of expression that has worked its way into ev
Rhetoric, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This course is an introduction to the theory, the practice, and the implications (bo
Science Writing and New Media, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This course introduces writing, graphics, meetings, oral presentation, collaboration
Science Writing and New Media: Elements of Science Writing for the Public, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This class is an introduction to writing about science–including nature, medicine, a
The Creative Spark, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, "Creative activity (isn't) the icing on the cake. Human creativity is the cake." (Je
Writing About Literature, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about li
Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This course focuses on traditional nature writing and the environmentalist essay. St
Writing About Race, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, Does race still matter, as Cornel West proclaimed in his 1994 book of that title, or
Writing and Experience, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, MIT students bring rich cultural backgrounds to their college experience. This cours
Writing and Experience: Crossing Borders, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, In this era of globalization, many of us have multi- or bi-cultural, multilingual or
Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a s
Writing and Experience: MIT: Inside, Live, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, During this seminar, students will chronicle their MIT e
Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, The reading and writing in this course will focus on the art of self-narrative or au
Writing and Reading the Essay, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This is a course focused on the literary genre of the essay, that wide-ranging, elas
Writing and Rhetoric: Writing about Sports, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, "Sports, not religion, is the opiate of the people." So says David Remnick, editor o
Writing and the Environment, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Highlights, This workshop-style reading and writing course features writing exercises with exampl
Writing on Contemporary Issues: Culture Shock! Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Cyberspace, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience-specifically,
Writing on Contemporary Issues: Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about the Cultures of Food, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, "What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world." -
Writing on Contemporary Issues: Imagining the Future, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usua
Writing on Contemporary Issues: Social and Ethical Issues, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, This course provides the opportunity for students-as readers, viewers, writers and s
Writing with Shakespeare, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Course Description, William Shakespeare didn't go to college. If he time-traveled like Dr. Who, he would