Digital Technologies and Emerging Media Minor
The digital technologies and emerging media (DTEM) minor requires six courses.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| DTEM 1401 | Introduction to Digital Technologies and Emerging Media | 4 |
| DTEM 1402 | Digital Cultures | 4 |
| Select one DTEM methods course 1 | ||
| Distributive Requirement | ||
| Select one course from one of the following categories: 2 | 4 | |
Digital, Equity, Ethics, and Power/Values (DTEV attribute) | ||
Digital Governance, Policy, and Law (DTPL attribute) | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select two electives 3 | ||
- 1
Any DTEM course numbered 2410-2419, or COMC 1101 Communications and Culture: History, Theory, and Methods. Students in the class of 2021 and earlier are exempt from this requirement, and may take an additional DTEM elective instead.
- 2
See below for the lists of courses included in each category.
- 3
Any course with the DTEM subject code or the DTEM attribute code may fulfill this requirement.
Digital, Equity, Ethics, and Power/Values courses
Courses in this group have the DTEV attribute.
These courses focus on issues of ethics, justice, and values as they are built into digital technologies and the industries that develop and maintain them. Some courses focus on the intersection of social justice and technology.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CISC 4650 | Cyberspace: Issues and Ethics | 4 |
| COMC 3240 | Photography, Identity, Power | 4 |
| COMC 4360 | Communication Ethics and the Public Sphere | 4 |
| COMC 4370 | Ethical Controversies in 21st Century Media | 4 |
| DTEM 3444 | Nerds, Geeks, and Bros. | 4 |
| DTEM 3447 | Race, Gender, and Digital Media | 4 |
| DTEM 3463 | Civic Media | 4 |
| DTEM 3500 | Resistance and Global Activism | 4 |
| DTEM 4430 | Digital Media Ethics | 4 |
| DTEM 4470 | Values in Design | 4 |
| DTEM 4480 | Digital Media and Public Responsibility | 4 |
| NMDD 3450 | User Experience Design: Design for Empowerment | 4 |
| NMDD 3880 | Designing Smart Cities for Social Justice | 4 |
Digital Governance, Policy, and Law courses
Courses in this group have the DTPL attribute.
These courses focus on the laws and policy-making that have governed technology across history, as well as the internal policies that govern how technology is deployed, developed, and used.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| COMC 3350 | Media Law | 4 |
| COMC 4340 | Freedom of Expression | 4 |
| DTEM 2450 | Digital Property: Rights, Policies, and Practice | 4 |
| DTEM 4440 | Privacy and Surveillance | 4 |
| DTEM 4451 | The Technology Industries | 4 |
Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation from the digital technology and emerging media major or minor, students will have achieved the following curricular goals:
- Develop a critically-informed understanding of the key characteristics of digital technologies and emerging media, their affordances, constraints, histories, and infrastructures.
- Learn to analyze digital media as not only tools, but a set of industries and institutions, and a site of political and cultural contestation, creative practice, and professional production.
- Gain the skills to plan, develop and execute appropriate methodologies for researching digital media from a variety of perspectives.
- Be conversant with the ethical, regulatory, political, and economic issues raised by the emergence and evolution of digital media and communication systems - especially as they relate to matters of social equity and equality, right, privacy and surveillance.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practice of digital technology design, and develop a critical understanding of their processes of invention, creation, deployment and use.
Availability
The minor in digital technologies and emerging media is available at Fordham College at Rose Hill and Fordham College at Lincoln Center. Students in Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies may minor in digital technologies and emerging media only if they receive the approval of their advising dean and/or department, and their schedules are sufficiently flexible to permit them to take day courses at the Rose Hill or Lincoln Center campuses. Such students must provide the Communication and Media Studies Associate Chair at their home campus a statement confirming they are able to take day classes in order to fulfill their minor requirements.