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MDST 337 Surveillance and Culture

This course will introduce students to a broad range of political, social, and cultural applications of surveillance technologies in the 20th and 21st centuries, and will pay particular attention to the ways in which film, television, and new media technologies structure the way in which the culture of surveillance currently plays out in our daily lives. Lecture. Prerequisites: WRIT 313, Advanced Academic Writing; and LSCI 105, Information Theory and Practice or LSCI 106, Information Sources in Architecture or Interior Design or LSCI 205, Information in the Disciplines.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

WRIT 313, LSCI 105 (or LSCI 106 or LSCI 205)