We are happy to announce that the NMCC’s core course, “Histories and Theories of New Media,” will be offered in both Winter and Spring term this year. In the winter, the course will be listed as J610: Theories of New Media and will be taught by SOJC Professor Dr. David Markowitz. The course is scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10-11:50. In the spring the course will be listed as J610: Histories and Theories of New Media. Professor and timing of the spring course are TBA.

While the course is a broad introduction to new media theories and histories, each individual faculty is given freedom to design the course in a way that best features their own research strengths and academic background. Accordingly, NMCC would recommend the Winter offering with Dr. Markowitz to our NMCC students with a more social science focus (or those interested in developing that way), while the Spring offering will be taught by a faculty member (still TBA, as noted) who will give the course more of a humanities and cultural studies focus.

We hope that this expansion of offerings for our core course will make schedule planning just a little bit easier for all of our students.