Announcing our Summer 2019 Courses
This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Digital media profoundly shape our lives: social media, apps, software and networked devices have transformed almost every area of work and play. The Berkeley Center for New Media Summer Certificate provides students with skills and knowledge that are essential for a career in tech, media, and related fields. This summer, think critically about how digital media impact our culture, from how media relate to the representation of race, gender, and identity, to how new technologies impact democracy worldwide.
Courses
NWMEDIA R1B-001
Mediating Blackness in African American Children’s Literature
Students will develop critical reading and writing skills while analyzing African American children’s literature, exploring how text and illustrations are used to enact race and gender.
NWMEDIA 90-001
blk + womxn + cyborg: Black Feminist Ethics and the Digital
Through literary and popular representations of the black woman as cyborg ranging from Octavia Butler’s Dawn to Lil Kim’s “How Many Licks?” to Westworld’s Maeve, this class considers the relationship between the black female body and technology as a window into a broader conversation about feminism, race, and the digital age.
NWMEDIA 190-001
Technology and democracy
This course examines the relationship of technology and democracy through specific international examples, including artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and ecocinema.