Index of Courses
- TV Programming and the Industry
- An introduction to the industrial practices of the US commercial, television industry. The course will look at how programming is produced, selected, scheduled, distributed, and evaluated. In addition, students will consider how these industrial practices affect free speech, democracy, citizenship, and global culture.
- The Evolution of TV Programming
- This course surveys US television programming from the advent of network broadcasting in the early 1950s to contemporary formats and genres at the turn of the new millennium. The course will focus specifically on how television programming is a social force responding to its contemporaneous poltical, industrial, and cultural moment.
- New York Independents
- A survey of the cultural history of independent film production in New York City throughout the last fifty years, examining this rich history in the context of cultural and counter-cultural movements occuring within the city.