DESMA 8
Interact! Media, Art, and Society
Description: Lecture, three hours; outside study, 12 hours. Synthetic overview of optical media and aesthetic movements covering past two centuries: photography and industrialization/Romanticism (1850 to 1900), cinema and modernism (1900 to 1950), television and postmodernism (1950 to 2000), and digital media and unimodernism (2000 to 2050). How such movements can inform generative work and how understanding these media becomes essential in emerging era of digital humanities. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2021 - Had him as my TA for DESMA 8 and was very helpful, clear, and easy-going. I took this as a GE with no previous DESMA classes or experience and passed with an A+, he grades papers very leniently and the final was straightforward and easy. I thoroughly enjoyed this class, it felt like a nice break from my other classes.
Winter 2021 - Had him as my TA for DESMA 8 and was very helpful, clear, and easy-going. I took this as a GE with no previous DESMA classes or experience and passed with an A+, he grades papers very leniently and the final was straightforward and easy. I thoroughly enjoyed this class, it felt like a nice break from my other classes.
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Winter 2016 - Professor Harries is an extremely disconnected lecturer with a poorly designed class. His lectures were very dry and unorganized, often with out a specific theme of topic. It seemed like he would just ramble on about whatever he wanted and even made up stuff. He said this was okay because, and I quote, "That's what you do when you have a PhD. " The readings were irrelevant but the midterm about the things he made up in class. The lectures were fairly useless after the first midterm because the final was take home. For not having to go to a lot of the lectures and doing minimal work, the class is overall fairly easy but boring and sometimes absolutely pointless.
Winter 2016 - Professor Harries is an extremely disconnected lecturer with a poorly designed class. His lectures were very dry and unorganized, often with out a specific theme of topic. It seemed like he would just ramble on about whatever he wanted and even made up stuff. He said this was okay because, and I quote, "That's what you do when you have a PhD. " The readings were irrelevant but the midterm about the things he made up in class. The lectures were fairly useless after the first midterm because the final was take home. For not having to go to a lot of the lectures and doing minimal work, the class is overall fairly easy but boring and sometimes absolutely pointless.
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Winter 2021 - Took this class remotely to fulfill a GE requirement. Overall, workload is pretty light: 1 midterm (3 essay questions), final (3 essay questions), a few short quizzes, and 2 event reviews (basically entails you reviewing some sort of artistic/media event). He also offered extra credit on the final by giving us the option of answering one additional essay question. Discussion section is mandatory with the exception of two sessions. Dr. Lunenfeld is very kind and strove to create a comfortable learning environment for his students. We were encouraged to come to OH once a week to ask questions or have discussions regarding course material and relavent topics. My TA Don Edler was also very helpful, and he created a space where students were comfortable sharing their opinions. Lectures were a bit dry, but overall this was a fairly easy GE to take remotely. While it is a history class, I did feel most of the material concerned topics still relevant today, including issues surrounding race/sexuality/gender.
Winter 2021 - Took this class remotely to fulfill a GE requirement. Overall, workload is pretty light: 1 midterm (3 essay questions), final (3 essay questions), a few short quizzes, and 2 event reviews (basically entails you reviewing some sort of artistic/media event). He also offered extra credit on the final by giving us the option of answering one additional essay question. Discussion section is mandatory with the exception of two sessions. Dr. Lunenfeld is very kind and strove to create a comfortable learning environment for his students. We were encouraged to come to OH once a week to ask questions or have discussions regarding course material and relavent topics. My TA Don Edler was also very helpful, and he created a space where students were comfortable sharing their opinions. Lectures were a bit dry, but overall this was a fairly easy GE to take remotely. While it is a history class, I did feel most of the material concerned topics still relevant today, including issues surrounding race/sexuality/gender.
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