MCS 153 (E-Z): Digitized Bodies

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 2 hours; laboratory, 1 hour

Catalog page 350

Prerequisites: MCS 020; upper-division standing or consent of instructor

Description: Provides a theoretical approach to digital subjectivities, bodies in motion, products, and reali- ties. Addresses issues of liveness, new media, mediat- ed cultural identities, speed, transfer, telepresence, and coded and encoded sexuality within program- ming. Focuses primarily on the body-computer inter- face. J. Digital Games, Violence, and the Body; K. Virtual Subjectivity: Persona, Identity, and Body. Segments are repeatable. Cross-listed with DNCE 173 (E-Z). Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

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