Doug Cohen's Music 1300 is a site for students of Music Appreciation, both at Brooklyn College and around the world. We feature open access web resources, and resources available to the CUNY community. We are committed to the use of Open Education Resources (OER). Click on the tabs and dropdown menus to navigate to the lower level pages.

During this semester we will:
1) Trace the diaspora of folk and popular music traditions to the U.S. from various parts of the world.
2) Analyze the survival, transformation, and hybridization of those musical practices and their impact on American popular music.
3) Explore how and why American music is globalized; the role of the Internet and mass media in this process; and the ways in which local cultures around the world adapt American music to their own society and traditions.

Bringing together MA and MFA students from Brooklyn College and CUNY in PIMA, Screen Studies, Film, Art History, Queer and Feminist Studies, and related disciplines, this team-taught course engages closely with twelve AIDS activist videotapes from the first decade of the crisis to raise and respond to questions about videotape, analogue records, the archive, research, performance, and AIDS. The Spring 2020 class will sit and be built out here, in this growing Scalar "book," taking and growing the form of a student-generated, online, openly-available resource for more teaching, learning, and activism about the 12 tapes under consideration. In Spring 2019, the course was built in and using Omeka, and some of what remains is available there. An article about the first iteration of the experimental class by Professors Juhasz and McCoy is available on this site here (in Readings). In Spring 2020, students will build from the research, performance, art, and activism of the previous cohort, whose work focused on three current and past concerns raised by the selected tapes: prostitutes’ and sex workers rights and AIDS; art, voice, education, authenticity, and children in relation to AIDS and queerness; and community-based activism for and about communities of color, with a particular interest in the Brooklyn-based activist group, VOCAL, and their commitments to housing and safe consumption spaces for people affected by AIDS (see Student Projects).

In-depth study of tools and techniques for designing dynamic and interactive multimedia systems for use in live performance situations. Emphasis will be on student creation of custom computer software to realize interactive projects. Video, audio, three-dimensional computer images, and alternative computer-human interfaces will be addressed. Extensive instruction in graphical computer programming; no experience required.

In-depth study of tools and techniques for designing dynamic and interactive multimedia systems for use in live performance situations. Emphasis will be on student creation of custom computer software to realize interactive projects. Video, audio, three-dimensional computer images, and alternative computer-human interfaces will be addressed. Extensive instruction in graphical computer programming; no experience required.

This assignment and exercise encourages students to pick a formative story, artifact, individual, or moment in their acquisition of language and/or literacy. Students record themselves telling this story, then type that recording, and make choices about how to edit that text.Instructors may invite students to read these aloud, and/or peer edit. Students may also submit reflections and comment on each others' reflection.

Introduction to unit on Social Networking, Blogging and Artificial Intelligence in CUNY SPS COM 110: Digital Literacy, partially adapted from a video by Wendy Williams

Introduction to the use of sound in multimedia, including post-production
and editing, with an emphasis on integration with visual components.
Students develop techniques of organizing and manipulating sound with
industry standard software and hardware systems. Digital audio formats,
compression protocols, streaming audio,synchronization, and integration
with multimedia elements are covered. MIDI and basic sequencing are
introduced as used in internet playback systems. Importing and exporting
audio protocols between a variety of applications is covered. Students
will work in an intensive, project-oriented environment, using a variety
of applications . The final project adds sound to a visual media scene.

Catalog Description: Development of broadcast systems from radio through the Internet. Technological and aesthetic innovations, socio-economic forces, government, private industry, advertisers, creative producers, and audiences from a historical perspective. U.S. and global perspectives.

Detailed Description: There are three primary components to any system of broadcasting: the industry, institution, and audience. The industry is defined as the systems and modes of production and distribution that sustain broadcasting. Institutions are governing bodies that oversee the system of broadcasting in any given nation-state and marketplace. In large part, the audience constitutes those who use broadcasting as a primary means of revenue generation. You are the product.

This course explores several fundamental questions about the economic, social, and technical organization of broadcasting, including (but not limited to):

1. How are systems of broadcasting organized and developed, both domestically and internationally?

2. What are the operative actors and rationales that govern the functions of broadcasting?

3. How does the evolution of technology shape broadcasting?

4. What role can or should the public play in the maintenance and evolution of broadcasting systems?

Script writing for television comedy programming. Developing scripts based on research, character analyses, plot analysis, and story treatments. Course will feature comedy/sitcom scripts.

Scriptwriting for television dramatic programming. Developing scripts based on research, character analyses, plot analysis, and story treatments. Course will feature dramatic scripts.

(Not open to students who have completed Television, Radio and Emerging Media 4173 [73], Special Topics: Advanced Television Writing: Drama.)

Prerequisite: Television, Radio and Emerging Media 2616 with a grade of B or better, or Film 1301 Screenwriting I with a grade of B or better, or permission of the chair.

In-depth industrial and cultural historical overview of the development of electronic mass communication. Historical and legal approaches and methods.

This is a  senior design course that introduces programming of
embedded systems, research and development methodology, project
management etc. Students develop an introductory level final
project incorporating telecommunications engineering designs that are
fully documented and prototyped.

This site was created as part of an Open Educational Resources Fellowship under the auspices of City University of New York, New York City College of Technology. It was developed utilizing City Tech’s OpenLab initiative by Professor John Battista De Santis. As City Tech’s Department of Communications Design OER initiative, this site will continue to evolve and expand. We welcome faculty input and OER content participation and submissions.

All scholars, activists, researchers, and artists of a certain age and inclination are burdened with a soon-to-be-obsolete but always-beloved, carefully tended but perhaps recently quieted, collection which most likely sits on an office shelf gaining dust: their VHS Archive. Not a personal collection, but a professional one of continuing or even growing value if not usability, this archive has been lovingly built and used, probably over decades, for teaching and research and in support of the movements and issues that have mattered most to the collector. The Brooklyn College graduate course in Film and Art, VHS Archives, models how to store, transfer, share, research, teach and make art from, and reactivate one such archive: 12 videotapes focusing on AIDS, gender, sexuality and bodies selected from Dr. Alexandra Juhasz’s 300+ scholarly collection of VHS tapes recently gifted to the Brooklyn College Library where they will be housed, and digitized, for further use for teaching and research.

Over a semester, the class will take the form of a student-generated, online, openly-available resource for teaching, learning, and activism about 12 tapes under consideration. In Juhasz's recent book, AIDS Crisis Revisitation: conversations on HIV, Media, and Memory, co-written with AIDS activist Theodore Kerr, we contemplate the liabilities of the up-to-now patrimonial stewardship of the AIDS media archive, and posit activist interventions to find, share, and learn from holdings more complex than the recently revisited experiences and legacies of gay white men. This class activates one portion of just such archive, ready to be enjoyed, used, and mined by women, people of color, students, scholars, activists, and others curious to attend to the histories and current realities of HIV—and VHS–in America.

2 module course covers accessibility basics, WCAG, POUR, why accessibility matters, legal issues and evaluating website accessibility. There are quizzes and assignments to help you learn and think about accessibility in your life.