This course explores audiovisual production and video editing, not only as creative tools, but as modes of critical inquiry. It is a highly creative, hands-on course designed for students to reflect critically on their own habits of media production and reception while consolidating their audiovisual skills and digital literacy. Students will develop foundational skills in audiovisual production, from image composition to the principles of montage, video editing, sound mixing, audiovisual remix… With each new skill acquired, students will discover alternative ways of weaving criticality and reflexivity into their media practices. They will use the audiovisual medium to ask questions and produce knowledge on the social, cultural and political issues of our times. Students will be encouraged to create videographic projects shaped by their (inter)disciplinary interests and engage creatively with media linked to their other ongoing courses or final thesis. No filmmaking or editing experience required.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-501 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-501 |
Studies will study the production of journalism in different historical, political and cultural contexts. Theoretical approaches to media and journalism (for example, authoritarian vs liberal models) will be studied to understand the relationship between politics and journalism – and, more generally, the media that operate as industries regulated by states. The course also examines the transformation of the journalism profession by new technologies, notably the impact of the web and social media on newsgathering and other journalistic practices. Issues such as censorship and surveillance will be examined through case studies such as Google and Facebook and new “gatekeepers” of news.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
Paris is widely recognized as the global capital of fashion and haute couture. This reputation continues to be reinforced today by magazines, advertising, and social media. This course will begin by examining the historical development of the luxury industry in Paris, tracing its roots back to the Middle Ages and exploring how artisanal trades were regulated during that period. Following the French Revolution, commercial activity became increasingly structured around new urban spaces such as covered passages and department stores, while the emergence of haute couture further solidified the city’s identity as a fashion capital.Rather than offering a simple chronological account of major fashion houses and designers, the course adopts a critical perspective that considers the political and sociological dimensions of Parisian fashion. Students will engage with questions related to gender, social class, and migration, analysing how these factors intersect with fashion production and consumption. The course also examines the spatial dimension of fashion, analysing how the urban planning of Paris and its surrounding suburbs has evolved in response to the demands of the luxury industry, not only in terms of retail, but also production. This includes both mass production hubs such as Aubervilliers and centres of exceptional craftsmanship like Le 19M. Field visits to key neighbourhoods, museums, and exhibitions, an integral part of the course, will provide students with the opportunity to enrich their theoretical knowledge through direct observation and experience.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 09:00 | 11:55 | C-102 |
The skills learned in this course will prepare students for upper-division communication courses, and provide students with basic research methods in the field of communication. Students will become familiar with a range of research methods (survey, interview, ethnography, discourse, and political economy.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-103 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-103 |
Topics vary every semester.
For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser:
https://catalog.aup.edu/course/offerings
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-4 |
Friday | 10:35 | 11:55 | PL-4 |
Topics vary every semester.
For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser:
https://catalog.aup.edu/course/offerings
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 16:55 | 19:50 | C-501 |
This course considers the construction of the visual world and our participation in it. Through a transcultural survey of materials, contexts and theories, students will learn how visual practices relate to other cultural activities, how they shape identity and environmental basic ways, and how vision functions in correspondence with other senses.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
This course aims to challenge existing notions of fashion by looking into several fashion systems - past and present - and engage with their social,economic, cultural and environmental impact. Systems of textiles and fashion revolve around numerous processes and actors, which are involved in complex chains from design, production, and distribution to consumption and use. Ready to wear, haute couture, fast, bespoke, vintage, slow or circular fashion - are some of the models operating on a global and local scale, all of which produce and market fashionable goods and ideas.
This course critically explores these different spaces and places of fashion.
We will begin with historical examples, especially looking at the effects of the Industrial Revolution and imperialism on textile production in Europe and globally in the 19th century. We will also discuss the establishment of Paris as the "capital of Western fashion" to the present day. Paris has been instrumental in the development of a globalized fashion system with wide-ranging effects on the environment and the living conditions of workers in the Global South.Exploring the life cycle of a garment will allow us to reflect on manufacturing processes and engage with sustainable practices such as upcycling, mending, and reuse. This course will encourage the rethinking of fashion systems under a holistic approach, one that reduces the footprint on raw materials and communities and fosters environmental responsibility and equity. Grounded in theory and practice, this course encourages critical discussions on fashion through lectures, research projects, visits,and guest talks, making extensive use of visual media and textual sources.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-1 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | PL-1 |
Explores what happens when dress and grooming become the basis for the modern phenomena of fashion. Studies the historical development of fashion: how fashion relates to the emergence of artistic, social, and economic forms and the ways fashion communicates ideas about status, gender, or culture. Investigates the role of media, advertising and marketing in the global fashion industry.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 09:00 | 10:20 | Q-509 |
Thursday | 09:00 | 10:20 | Q-509 |
An advanced feature-writing workshop focused on techniques for long-form and investigative journalism. Students will gain experience in story ideas, researching, interview techniques, structuring feature articles. Emphasis will be placed on researching and data gathering for in-depth magazine and investigative reporting. This workshop will develop writing skills for careers in magazine style and investigative journalism on subjects selected by students. Articles can be published on the Peacock Plume website.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 18:30 | 19:50 | Q-704 |
Thursday | 18:30 | 19:50 | Q-704 |